California's New Law: Turning Parking Lots into Affordable Housing 　　Introduction　　In an effort to combat the ongoing homeless crisis, California has enacted a new law that allows religious institutions and nonprofit colleges to convert their parking lots and other properties into low-income housing. 　　The Law's Provisions　　The law, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, rezones land owned by religious institutions and nonprofit colleges...

The growth in revenues largely came from its existing merchants and payment processing stack Wibmo, as new merchant signups continued to be paused for the Indian entity after a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) order.

Six persons, including a 47-year-old woman, were injured in the incident. All of them were admitted to the nearby Shatabdi Hospital. They are being treated at the Out-patient Department (OPD) of the hospital and their condition is stable.

　　Former Citibank Analyst's Unfair Dismissal Claim Rejected 　　Employee Lied About Food Expenses　　A former Citibank analyst, Szabolcs Fekete, has lost his claim of unfair dismissal after a tribunal discovered he had lied about buying food for his partner and charging it to his employer. 　　Fekete, who was a senior analyst, claimed he had been both wrongfully and unfairly dismissed by Citibank....

01:44 PM EST, 01/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were declining Friday afternoon, with the NYSE Health Care Index down 0.6% and the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) easing 0.1%. The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) rose 0.3%. In corporate news, Novo Nordisk ( NVO ) shares fell 5.5% after the Department of Health and Human Services said...

01:43 PM EST, 01/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Energy stocks were higher Friday afternoon, with the NYSE Energy Sector Index up 0.5% and the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE) rising 0.8%. The Philadelphia Oil Service Sector index climbed 2.1%, and the Dow Jones US Utilities index added 0.3%. Front-month West Texas Intermediate crude oil was declining 0.5% to $78.26 a...

12:14 PM EST, 01/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Wall Street's major market averages were higher around midday Friday ahead of a long Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend and the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. In company news, Novo Nordisk ( NVO ) shares slid 4.8% after the Department of Health and Human Services said that the company's Ozempic, Wegovy and...

01:39 PM EST, 01/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Financial stocks were advancing in Friday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index up 0.6% and the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF) ahead 0.7%. The Philadelphia Housing Index rose 0.7%, and the Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLRE) added 0.3%. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) spiked 5.2% to $104,732, and the yield for 10-year...

Benzinga's options scanner just detected over 11 options trades for ASML Holding ( ASML ) summing a total amount of $531,770. At the same time, our algo caught 4 for a total amount of 314,780. Predicted Price Range Analyzing the Volume and Open Interest in these contracts, it seems that the big players have been eyeing a price window from...

Oct 28 (Reuters) - AT&T ( T ) said on Monday it had struck a $1 billion multi-year deal with Corning to buy fiber, cable, and connectivity solutions, as the U.S. telecom giant looks to expand its high-speed internet services. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT With the U.S. wireless market facing a slowdown, telecom companies such as AT&T ( T ) and...

Providing a diverse range of perspectives from bullish to bearish, 15 analysts have published ratings on Ciena in the last three months. The following table encapsulates their recent ratings, offering a glimpse into the evolving sentiments over the past 30 days and comparing them to the preceding months. Bullish Somewhat Bullish Indifferent Somewhat Bearish Bearish Total Ratings 5 3 7...

Oct 28 (Reuters) - Enterprise Products Partners ( EPD ) agreed to develop a CO2 transportation network to support carbon capture firm 1PointFive's hub in southeast Texas to carry emissions captured by third parties for sequestration, the companies said on Monday. The network, part of Occidental's 1PointFive initiative, will transport emissions from facilities near the Houston Ship Channel to Bluebonnet...

The resignation letters in Kannada were handed over to Siddaramaiah at a meeting of the party leaders and ministers held at Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara's residence here.

A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ram Shankar Katheria's bodyguard was booked for beating up a toll plaza staff in Uttar Pradesh's Agra, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday took a swipe at the BJP government for not taking action against its lawless lawmakers.

For Harris, it was a revealing moment, one she says illustrated the limitations many Americans, including black Americans, place on who is considered electable for the nation's highest office.

In this teeming capital city of more than 20 million people, a worsening drought is amplifying the vast inequality between India's rich and poor. The politicians, civil servants and corporate lobbyists who live in substantial houses and apartments in central Delhi pay very little to get limitless supplies of piped water – whether for their bathrooms, kitchens or to wash the car, dog, or spray a manicured lawn. They can do all that for as little as $10-$15 a month. But step into one of the slum areas in the inner city or a giant disorganized housing estate on the outskirts and there is a daily struggle to get and pay for very limited supplies of water, which is delivered by tanker rather than pipe. And the price is soaring as supplies are fast depleting. India's water crisis is far from even-handed - the elite in Delhi and most other parts of the country remain unaffected while the poor scramble for supplies every day. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official residence and those of his cabinet are in central Delhi, as are those of most lawmakers. That may help to explain why it took until this week for Modi to call for a massive water conservation program, the first big initiative by the government despite years of warnings about dry reservoirs and depleted water tables, policymakers and water industry experts said.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Iris Acquisition Corp II (the “Company”), a newly organized special purpose acquisition company formed as a Cayman Islands exempted company, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 15,000,000 units at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, with each unit consisting of one Class A ordinary share...

BRUSSELS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Electric vehicles are likely to make up 85% of new car sales in the EU from 2035, based on its plans to drop an effective ban on new combustion-engine models, although that share ‌could drop as low as 50%, clean transport advocacy group T&E said. Under pressure from carmakers, ​the European Commission in December proposed...

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NEW DELHI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - India has agreed to buy petroleum, defence goods, electronics, pharma and telecom products as well as aircraft from the U.S. under a trade deal, a government official told ‌Reuters on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with India on ​Monday that slashes U.S. tariffs on Indian goods to 18% from ‍50%...

Binance will pay $4.3 billion in one of the largest corporate agreements in US history. Changpeng Zhao will pay a $50 million fine under a deal that requires him to step down as CEO. Zhao pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating the Bank Secrecy Act in federal court in Seattle.

A spot crypto ETF would track the market price of the underlying crypto asset, giving investors exposure to the token without having to buy the currency. The SEC has previously denied all spot bitcoin ETF applications citing potential for fraud, but that could soon change after it lost a legal battle in August.

Negotiations between the Justice Department and Binance include the possibility that its founder Changpeng Zhao would face criminal charges in the US under an agreement to resolve the probe into alleged money laundering, bank fraud and sanctions violations, according to the Bloomberg.

Bitcoin prices have typically rallied in the past following halvings. Six months after the first halving in 2012, the price jumped to $126 from $12. After the second halving in 2016, it went to $1,000 from $654 within seven months and in 2020 it shot up to $18,040 from $8,570 in the same time period.