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Cryptoverse: Gold coins glimmer amid the global gloom
Date: April 19, 2022
By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Medha Singh (Reuters) – A fledgling class of crypto that feasts on risk is outshining a wider market paralyzed by war and inflation. Coins backed by gold are newer variants of “stablecoins”, which are typically pegged to the dollar to tame volatility. The largest, Pax Gold or PAXG, has jumped...
Analysis-Soaring battery costs fail to cool electric vehicle sales
Date: April 19, 2022
By Paul Lienert and Nick Carey (Reuters) – Buyers around the world are lining up to purchase electric vehicles this year even with sticker prices surging, flipping the script on a decade and a half of conventional auto industry wisdom that EV sales would break out only after battery costs dropped below a threshold that...
‘Great wealth transfer’ set to accelerate ESG transition in the wealth management sector
Date: April 19, 2022
By Stuart Parkinson, Group CEO, Lombard International Group While institutional investors continue to increase their commitment to ESG and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, it is the shift among (ultra) high-net-worth (UHNW/HNW) individuals and families that is emerging as one of the key drivers of this increased focus. Crucially, societal groups that are well attuned...
Rolls-Royce expecting UK approval for mini nuclear reactor by mid-2024
Date: April 19, 2022
By Isabel Kua (Reuters) – A Rolls-Royce design for a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) will likely receive UK regulatory approval by mid-2024 and be able to produce grid power by 2029, Paul Stein, chairman of Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors, told Reuters. The British government asked its nuclear regulator to start the approval process in...
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
Date: April 19, 2022
(Reuters) – Ukrainian Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the “Battle of Donbas” had begun, as Russian forces launched an anticipated new offensive across eastern Ukraine, with explosions reported all along the front lines. Russian attacks were reported in other regions too, including missile strikes on the western region of Lviv. FIGHTING * Zelenskiy said Russia...
U.S. will no longer enforce mask mandate on airplanes, trains after court ruling
Date: April 19, 2022
By David Shepardson, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) -The Biden administration will no longer enforce a U.S. mask mandate on public transportation, after a federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful, overturning a key White House effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Soon after the...