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LinkedIn platform data show UK hiring is down 24 per cent on pre-pandemic levels and 10 per cent year on year, while London is down 32 per cent since January 2019, according to a LinkedIn labour-market report and reporting by City AM and The National. Janine Chamberlin, head of LinkedIn UK, said the data points to “economic uncertainty and low business confidence rather than AI job shocks.” At a Chatham House panel on AI and the future of work, Blake Lawit, LinkedIn’s chief global affairs and legal officer, said hiring slowness “seems much more driven by macroeconomic conditions like a…

Pictet’s Doc Horn outlines how disciplined portfolio positioning, selective alpha opportunities and diversified hedge fund allocations can help investors navigate an increasingly uncertain market environment. Over the next 12 months, Doc Horn, Head of the Total Return Equities Fund at Pictet Asset Management, believes the fund’s success will largely depend on how effectively it allocates capital between offensive and defensive opportunities across its 15–20 internal teams. “The macro shocks that we have been experiencing have increased the opportunity set for our active managers to exploit inefficiencies as they emerge. However, avoiding large drawdowns is critical in uncertain times.” As head of…

In EU crypto news, within 24 hours of each other, Russia and the European Union each moved to restrict the same class of crypto assets, for completely opposite reasons. Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 9, 2026, announced fees of 0.5–3% on assets classified as Russia-unfriendly crypto, explicitly naming USDT, USDC, and BNB. The same day, the EU unveiled its proposed 21st sanctions package, the first to give Brussels the legal power to impose a full operational ban on any foreign country’s crypto sector if it is found to be…

 Compared with the workforce, participation in supplementary pension schemes continues to grow, particularly among younger age groups (up 9.8 percentage points over five years in the 15–34 age group).As regards geographical distribution, the participation rate exceeds the national average in the northern regions, where 57.3 per cent of members are concentrated; lower figures, well below the average, are recorded in most of the southern regions.Resources, grants and benefitsBy the end of 2025, the assets accumulated by supplementary pension schemes stood at €262 billion (up 7.7% on 2024), mainly due to the positive performance of the financial markets. Accumulated assets amount…

New Delhi Precious metals witnessed a sharp decline in the domestic market on Wednesday, with gold falling by Rs 4,300 per 10 grams and silver plunging by Rs 10,000 per kilogram, as rising crude oil prices and a stronger US dollar dampened investor appetite for bullion. According to market participants, gold of 99.9 per cent purity dropped nearly 3 per cent to Rs 1,56,000 per 10 grams, inclusive of taxes, from its previous closing level of Rs 1,60,300 per 10 grams. Silver also came under heavy selling pressure, sliding 4 per cent to Rs 2,45,700 per…

The SEC just made its biggest crypto classification move in years, placing major tokens such as Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, Dogecoin, Avalanche, XRP, and Chainlink into a “digital commodities” bucket while saying some token sales can stop being treated as securities-law cases once the issuer’s core promises are fulfilled.Paired with a new SEC-CFTC coordination framework, the March 17 interpretation is less a narrow staking memo than a broad attempt to replace years of crypto-by-enforcement with a clearer split between assets, contracts, and regulator turf.Until Gary Gensler left the SEC, crypto in the US has lived under a legal cloud. Tokens were…

Author: Yang Ge After the singularity explosion, the evolution clock of AI has been accelerating, leading to the rapid formation of new civilizational generations in different regions around the world. In the past two months, I participated in over 20 AI-related events in more than ten cities globally, and only the Stripe Sessions in downtown San Francisco at the end of April surpassed all other themes, revealing a shocking generational gap. While the world is growing weary of the bottleneck of Claws & Agents, Silicon Valley and San Francisco have already entered the next dimension in managing the Agent economy…

Uncrewed ground vehicles can carry supplies and casualties across exposed routes where soldiers and crewed vehicles face drone and artillery threat (Picture: ARX Robotics) The British Army has completed the first phase of research and development on land drone swarms, one of the technologies named in the Strategic Defence Review’s promise to make the Army “10x more lethal”.Armed Forces Minister Al Carns confirmed the progress in a written parliamentary answer after Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty asked what had been done to deliver land drone swarms, a year after the Strategic Defence Review was published in June 2025.Mr Carns said: “The…

TradingKey – As of the European session today (June 10), silver has continued its weak downward trend, hitting an intraday low of $63.44. Technical analysis suggests that silver prices may continue to decline in the short term. Due to strong U.S. non-farm payroll data and the conflict between Iran and Israel, silver prices ( XAGUSD) have continued to fall recently, with a cumulative decline of over 13% this month.From a fundamental perspective, the primary driver behind the recent decline in silver prices is the U.S. non-farm payroll (NFP) data. In May, non-farm payrolls increased by 172,000, while the unemployment rate…

There are tons of exchange tokens out there, but OKB crypto stands out in the OKX ecosystem. It started as the native utility token for one of the biggest crypto exchanges, and right from the start, OKB offered rewards, fee discounts, and special platform benefits. But it hasn’t stopped there. Since the OKB release date, it has grown into something bigger. Now it’s tied to DeFi services, partner integrations, and regular token burns that help manage its supply.The OKB team, along with the entire OKX network, continues to push to make OKB more useful in real life. They focus on…