In the digital yuan wallet app, a traditional Chinese method of giving money as a gift that has become virtual due to the rise of digital payments has been implemented. To attract new users, China's wallet app for its digital yuan central bank digital currency (CBDC) introduced the ability for users to send money in an electronic version of traditional "red packets." As reported by the South China Morning Post on December 26th, the new feature was released over the weekend, roughly one month before the Chinese New Year on January 22nd. The "red packets," known as hongbao in China, are traditionally used to give money as a symbol of good luck during the Chinese New Year and other celebrations. Popular local services, such as WeChat Pay and Alipay, now offer virtual red envelopes in response to the rise of digital payments. Reportedly, the e-CNY app allows a red packet to be sent to a single recipient, or a "lucky draw" can be set up for a group of rec...

  The use of censoring MEV relays by crypto ecosystems and exchanges is among the most damaging factors to Ethereum's neutrality credibility. Compliance with federal sanctions has a negative impact on the global reach of most crypto ecosystems. When it comes to Ethereum, however, investors wield considerable influence over the degree of compliance the ecosystem observes. Nearly sixty percent of all post-Merge Ethereum blocks comply with the sanctions imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States (OFAC). While the crypto community opposes this transformation, many fail to recognize their role in assisting Ethereum to achieve full OFAC compliance. The use of censoring Miner extractable value (MEV) relays by crypto ecosystems and exchanges is one of the largest factors undermining Ethereum's neutrality credibility. MEV relays act as a go-between between block producers and block builders, and are utilized by prominent crypto players such as Binance, Celsius ...

Today, shares of Max Financial Services plummeted over 3% on reports that more than 2% of the company's stock changed hands in a block transaction. The deal was valued 471 billion rupees. On BSE, Max Financial shares fell 2.75 percent to Rs 680.15 from the previous closing of Rs 699.45. The company's market cap decreased to Rs 23,863.2 billion. The share price opened lower at Rs 687.50. The share price of Max Financial is trading below its 5-day, 20-day, 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day moving averages. Max Financial stock has lost 28.38 percent during the past year and 29.31 percent in 2022. On January 11, 2022, the share reached a 52-week high of Rs 1081, and on November 23, 2022, it reached a 52-week low of Rs 627.80. On BSE, a total of 12,577,000 shares of the company changed hands, resulting in a turnover of Rs 85.89 crore. Shares of Max Financial have declined for the past two trading sessions. Meanwhile, Emkay Global has a price target of Rs 930 for Max Financial stock. On D...

Michael Gove, the Leveling Up Secretary, confirmed an almost £60 billion package for councils in England for the next financial year on the 19th of December 2022. This is to ensure that councils can continue to provide essential frontline services. As the government continues to stand by councils and public services in the face of financial challenges, the settlement will result in an additional £5 billion for councils throughout England, a 9% increase over the settlement last year. Before any local choices are made regarding council tax, the deal for next year includes a one-time Funding Guarantee that ensures every council in England will experience at least a 3% rise in core spending power. This comes on the heels of the confirmation of a new £100 million plan for councils to safeguard the most vulnerable households from council tax rises, fulfilling a promise made in the party's campaign to shield local taxpayers from steep increases. In addition, the government is placing a pr...

Share Market News for Today | Sensex, Nifty, and Share Prices LIVE: Bulls make a return, snapping a two-day losing streak, as the NSE Nifty and BSE Sensex conclude higher in India. The Sensex rises 460 points, the Bank Nifty rises 0.45%, and the Nifty closes above 18400; M&M is the biggest winner. Despite the markets' flat opening, the Nifty rose more than 150 points to close at 18,420, exceeding 18,400. The Sensex closed the day at 61,806, up 0.76%. When the entire market went from red to green intraday, the Nifty Junior or Nifty Next 50 rose by about 1%. Nifty Auto was the leading gainer in the industry today, up 1.59%. The initial public offering (IPO) of KFin Technologies commenced for subscription today with a price range of Rs. 347-366 per share and was taken up 0.49 times. The biggest hurdle for Nifty is 18,888." "The market had an unexpectedly positive day, with short covering and value buying dominating. With the exception of IT, all other sectoral indices cl...

Bloomberg stated that as the Argentina squad prepares for Sunday's World Cup final, annual inflation in the country is expected to exceed 99.9% this month, and economists anticipate it will shortly surpass 100. In 1986, when Diego Maradona led the Albiceleste to victory, the average rate of inflation was 116%. In 1978, when Argentina won the tournament it hosted, the inflation rate was 176%, according to data and surveys from the central bank. Lionel Messi, who was born a year after Maradona's legendary status, will make his final World Cup appearance against France. Messi, who was born a year after Maradona's legendary status, was born a year after Argentina won the 1986 World Cup. The team's march to the final match, which included avoiding early elimination and recording five consecutive victories, has thrilled a nation once again experiencing difficult economic times. However, this continuous economic characteristic of the nation is not a predictor of World Cup succ...

According to statements made by analysts on Thursday, the economy of Malaysia will slow down in 2023 as a result of adverse external conditions and a slowdown in internal demand. According to Xinhua news agency, the Maybank Investment Bank Research said in a research that it anticipates Malaysia's full-year growth to drop to 4 percent in 2023 from the growth prediction of 8 percent in 2022. This is mostly reflective of a moderation in domestic demand. As pent-up spending from the complete economic re-opening evaporates next year, the research house anticipates slower growth in private consumption. This will be compounded by the effects of high inflation and high interest rates on the cost of living and real disposable income. It also forecasts a slowdown in the expansion of private consumption, which is expected to be in line with the reduced allocation for government operating expenses in Budget 2023. In addition, it was said that the forecast for slower global economic developmen...

Three explosions were heard in the center of Kiev as the Ukrainian government claimed to have shot down multiple Iranian-made Shahed drones. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that ten Shahed drones had been shot down by Ukraine's air defenses, and that emergency services had been deployed to the Shevchenkovskyi neighborhood in the city's center. "More information to come," he wrote on his Telegram channel. There was no way to independently confirm Klitschko's assertion. Ukrainian politician Oleksiy Goncharenko tweeted that he heard three explosions at 6:30 a.m. local time (04:30 GMT). The air-raid alert sounded at 5:55 a.m. (03:55 GMT), and inhabitants are advised to remain in shelters until further notice. "Ukrainians are not awakened by alarm clocks but by explosives," Goncharenko wrote. "Thanks to Russia, our neighbor! "Good morning, everyone!" Kyiv Oblast governor Oleksiy Kuleba stated that air defense systems were activated and "st...

Hong Kong will get rid of the last of its Covid-19 rules, which have hurt the city's economy and hurt its reputation as a financial hub. From tomorrow on, people who just arrived won't be banned from going to restaurants and bars for the first three days, and locals won't have to scan a tracking app to get into restaurants, bars, and other places. Hong Kong's chief executive, John Lee, said, "We have looked at the data and risk, and one of the things we looked at is that the risk brought in by imported cases is actually lower than the risk of infection in the community." The changes come after Beijing changed its mind about its "zero-Covid" policy this month. The country dropped a lot of rules that were meant to get rid of cases, which led to more infections. Even though Hong Kong was never as restricted as the rest of China, it still had its own elimination policy and week-long government quarantines until a terrible outbreak at the beginning of thi...

More than a third of Australians know someone who attempted suicide in the past year, new research shows. 38% of the 1022 adults questioned by Suicide Prevention Australia were indirectly or directly affected by suicide. One in five adults expressed suicidal thoughts in the past year, and 70% felt stressed. Cost of living and personal debt are the most prevalent pressures Australians face, but housing-related misery is the fastest-growing. Nieves Murray, CEO of Suicide Prevention Australia, said financial concerns represented the biggest threat to mental health and suicide rates. Mr. Murray: "Our findings reveal the direct link between rising economic and social pressures and community misery." Two to three years following a crisis, suicide rates can surge. We must act now to address rising distress and suicide risk in our society. Mr. Murray said 88% of frontline suicide prevention agencies saw increased demand last year. Leading mental health organisations shared these worr...

Ishaq Dar, Pakistan's Finance Minister, stated on Saturday that despite the opposition's propaganda, Pakistan will not default on its debts since the country is moving in the right direction. "Pakistan will not default on its debt just because the opposition is spreading lies about it" (Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf). During his conversation with businesspeople, Mr. Dar made the assertion that the course the nation is taking is appropriate and that it will not default on its obligations. PTI Chairman Imran Khan and other leaders of his party have been making predictions that Pakistan will default on its obligations as a result of the "bad policies" of the coalition government that is led by PML-N. Mr. Khan is of the opinion that in order for the economy of the country to be stabilized, there must first be fresh elections held and then the crisis must be addressed by a stable government. Mr. Dar added that the opposition was damaging the "economic cause"...

The UK, Japan, and Italy have agreed to create one of the world's most advanced fighter jets by 2035 in their first trilateral military venture to boost their defensive capabilities against China and Russia. Global Combat Air Programme is being built alongside a competing Franco-German-Spanish project, which has been marred by political and industrial disputes. The UK and Italy will join their Future Combat Air program, called Tempest, with Japan's F-X project. The three nations will split the expected tens of billions of dollars in development expenditures, but the actual contributions will be based on a combined assessment of costs and national budgets. By working together in an equitable partnership, the three nations are sharing the expenses and benefits of investing in their people and technologies. The program will help all three countries design, deliver, and upgrade cutting-edge combat air capabilities in the future. The years-long deal is a first for Japan. Historicall...

The U.S. Treasury yields went up, which helped the dollar go up a little bit on Thursday. Investors were weighing the outlook for Federal Reserve policy against the chance that high interest rates could cause a recession. The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England will all be making important decisions next week. The most important question for traders and investors is whether or not inflation has reached its highest point. If it has, policymakers will have more room to raise interest rates more slowly over the next few months. Next week, one day before the Fed's policy meeting on Dec. 14, the monthly consumer inflation rate for the U.S. will be released. This could be a key factor in setting longer-term expectations for monetary policy. "Right now, U.S. CPI is the only data release that seems to really matter for the direction of the dollar as a whole," said Adam Cole, a currency strategist at RBC. "Until we get those central bank meetin...

"The days of low interest rates being able to create dreams of a peaceful society centered on renewable energy, equality, and autonomous central banks are long gone. In the year 2023, the economies of the globe will transition into a mode known as the War Economy, in which national economic benefits and independent dependence take precedence over globalization." That is how emphatic Saxo Bank is being after it recently released its study on the black swans that are expected to occur in the upcoming year. Black swans are events that have a significant socioeconomic impact and that, once they have occurred, are analyzed with hindsight and eventually become events that could have been expected. Once a black swan has occurred, it can be analyzed with hindsight and become an event that could have been expected. The following is a list of the top 10 "crazy" predictions made by the Danish bank: 1. A group that is worth several billions of dollars has created a new "Ma...

It is essential to keep in mind that, in contrast to typical stock markets, the market for cryptocurrencies is open not just during normal business hours but around the clock, seven days a week. Bitcoin may be purchased around the clock and from anywhere in the world by anyone who has access to the internet. According to the findings of a study, Sundays and Mondays are the two greatest days of the week to purchase Bitcoin because that is when the price of the cryptocurrency is at its lowest. The weekend is typically characterized by a general reduction in the volume of trading activity across all cryptocurrency exchanges, which is why it is recommended to buy Bitcoin in the evening on Sunday. The CME Group, a leading provider of derivatives in the United States, closes down for the weekend. Every day, institutional investors trade more than $500 million worth of bitcoin, which represents a significant portion of bitcoin's total volume worldwide. When Is the Right Time to Buy Crypto...

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What Is the Rising Wedge Pattern All About? The rising wedge is a regular and predictable price reversal pattern in the bitcoin market. The pattern may indicate the range and direction of future price movements. This pattern is popular among traders since it is straightforward to spot. During an uptrend, the price forms a rising wedge pattern when it remains between support and resistance. In this design, the slope of the support line is usually steeper than the slope of the resistance line. This slope could indicate that higher lows occurred faster than higher highs, resulting in a wedge-shaped structure. A rising wedge pattern might be considered bearish, hence the term "rising wedge bearish." A rising wedge could signal a trend reversal and further bearishness. When a reversal pattern occurs, the pattern will rise and follow the main trend. If it were a continuous trend, it would continue to increase, but the slope would move in the opposite direction of the downtrend. Ide...

Converging trend lines on a price chart resemble a wedge, a type of price pattern. A price series is examined over a period of 10 to fifty years, and two trend lines are created to connect the series' highs and lows. When the lines meet, it looks that a wedge is forming because to the difference in the rates at which the highs and lows are rising or declining. Because of the structure of the line, wedge-shaped trend lines are good forecasters of a future price reversal. The Crucial Point Converging trend lines that span 10 to 50 trading sessions are commonly used to define wedge patterns. The patterns can be classified as rising or falling wedges based on their movement orientation. When it comes to predicting price reversals, these patterns have an extraordinary success record. Getting to Know the Wedge Pattern Recognizing the Wedge Pattern A wedge pattern may have suggested a price reversal in either direction. In any case, this pattern shares the following three characteristics:...