After a sequential fall in November, due to high base and waning of the festival season effect, credit card spends have picked up again in December, recording over Rs 1 trillion for the 10th consecutive month. Latest figures released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) show that credit card […]

The U.S. Navy is in the midst of designing what it will look like in 2045. A recently-released overview of the Navy’s plans noted, “We will build future platforms with modernization in mind – hardware upgradeable and software updateable at the speed of innovation.” Here are 11 new warships that […]

Raising scope for another aggressive rate hike in February, Eurozone core inflation accelerated in December, as estimated, while overall inflation slowed to a four-month low on energy prices, final data from Eurostat revealed Wednesday. Core inflation that excludes energy, food, alcohol and tobacco, advanced to 5.2 percent from 5.0 percent […]

EXCLUSIVE: Christian Robinson (BMF, Interview With The Vampire) has signed with Cultivate Entertainment Partners for representation. Robinson is an American actor of Panamanian and African American descent, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He began his career co-starring in the Netflix original film Burning Sands, which was an official […]

Over a seven-hour period on Jan. 6, 2021, thousands of demonstrators came to the U.S. Capitol Building as lawmakers inside prepared to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. In an attempt to halt the proceedings, demonstrators overpowered Capitol Police and breached the building. The attack resulted in $1.5 […]

Confidence among French manufacturers improved further at the start of the year, underpinned by an improvement in the assessment of past production and foreign order books, amid expectations that the recent downturn in the economy would be short-lived, results of two separate surveys showed Tuesday. The manufacturing confidence index rose […]

Reminiscent of the past two years, the market has made positive strides ahead of the Union Budget 2023-24 (FY24). The benchmark National Stock Exchange Nifty has gained 1.8 per cent in the last month. Typically, markets tend to gain ahead of the Budget as investors build in optimism. The one-month […]

Netflix did not just beat expectations for the number of subscribers it added in the fourth quarter. It crushed them. The company had forecast it would add 4.5 million. The number turned out to be 7.7 million. That put paid membership worldwide at 231 million. By most measures, that is […]

China’s economy is widely seen slowing in the fourth quarter of 2022 as the pandemic related restrictions were lifted towards the end of the year providing little support to retail sales, industrial output and exports. Gross domestic product is forecast to grow only 1.8 percent on a yearly basis in […]

Iranian American businessman Siamak Namazi has started a seven-day hunger strike in an Iranian jail and appealed to President Joe Biden to make efforts to liberate him from Iran’s custody. A press release issued by Namazi’s lawyer Jared Genser says, “Siamak remains behind bars in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, where […]