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Odhran McBrearty won his first national gold medal on the track and there was a first national gold in the career of Stephen Slevin on day 3 of the National Juvenile Indoor Championships in Athlone on Saturday. The Finn Valley AC duo were atop the podium at the TUS Arena, McBrearty winning the U19 1500m and Slevin taking gold in the U19 high jump. McBrearty, a multiple medallist in national cross country events, broke four minutes, surging to gold in 3:58.47, lowering his personal best by five seconds in the process. McBrearty has transitioned well from cross country to track…

ANALYSIS: Part one of a four-part series on private equity and the tyranny of internal rates of return. © All content copyright NBR. Do not reproduce in any form without permission, even if you have a paid subscription. Today, I’m exploring the use and misuse of the internal rate of return calculation as it is employed by the private equity (PE) sector. This exposé, based on a paper by Oxford University economics professor Ludovic Phalippou, shows how overseas PE managers have used financial sleight of hand to Want to read more? It’s easy. Choose your subscription Already have an account?…

Yuga Labs has settled its multi-year lawsuit with two artists over trademark infringement involving NFTs. Summary Yuga Labs has settled its lawsuit with artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen, bringing the dispute over lookalike BAYC NFTs to a close. Ripps and Cahen are permanently barred from using Yuga Labs imagery and must transfer control of related NFTs, domains, and smart contracts within 10 days. Documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on April 8 confirm that defendants and artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen have reached a final settlement agreement with Yuga Labs. As…

At its April 6–8, 2026 meeting, the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent and retained a neutral stance. Risks from the West Asia conflict, particularly via energy prices and supply chain disruptions, have strengthened the case for caution. While domestic fundamentals remain resilient, the Governor’s remarks indicate that the MPC will closely track incoming data before moving on rates. However, with upside risks to inflation increasing and global uncertainty remaining high, the room for rate cuts appears limited for now.With interest rates uncertain, debt allocations for a 1–4 year horizon…

Private equity office building, Sherman Oaks, California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. For more than a decade, private equity has been on a quest to gain access to the nearly $14 trillion of  hard-earned money in workers’ defined contribution retirement accounts, two-thirds in 401(k) plans. On March 30, the Trump administration handed private equity, private credit, crypto, and the full array of alternative investments the keys to this golden kingdom. Their timing could hardly be worse. Employers have long been reluctant to include such assets in workers’ defined contribution retirement accounts —– mainly  401(k)plans. In 2024, only 4 percent of defined…

AI-powered auto-trading is seeing renewed interest in 2026 as elevated volatility and rapid market swings strain human traders. With the S&P 500 near 6,780 and up ~28% year-over-year, higher intraday volatility (proxied by elevated VIX readings) creates both opportunity and execution risk. AI stock trading uses machine learning, pattern recognition, and sentiment analysis to scan price, volume, and alternative data, then execute trades automatically. The AmbCrypto overview explains how these systems work, highlights their benefits in speed and scale, and walks through adoption considerations and pitfalls. Practitioners should treat these apps as engineering systems, requiring robust backtesting, realistic transaction-cost modeling,…

CoinGeek Pulse covers CBDC, NFTs, show launch Homepage > Videos > The CoinGeek Pulse Episode 42: Norway’s CBDC test, Eminem NFTs and Hashing It Out premiere Following a myriad of nations jumping in and four years of research, Norway has announced it is now ready to test its own central bank digital currency. Click here to read the full article. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If…

Anthropic has hired senior executive Eric Boyd from Microsoft to lead its infrastructure efforts, as the artificial intelligence company scales capacity to meet surging demand for its products. Boyd will serve as Head of Infrastructure, overseeing the buildout of systems needed to support Anthropic’s rapidly growing AI services. The hire comes as the company faces increasing usage of its models, including Claude Code, which has gained traction among both enterprise and individual users. Anthropic has been ramping up investments in compute infrastructure amid heightened competition across the AI industry. The company previously committed to spending $50 billion to build AI…

Earlier this week, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced his “Equity Plan”, presenting it as an answer to the city’s crushing affordability crisis. But the plan rests on a basic confusion: it mistakes redistribution for abundance. Instead of asking how the government has driven up the cost of housing, healthcare, and education through regulation and bureaucratic red tape, Mamdani assumes that affordability can be achieved through transfers and further intervention. That is the central flaw in both the city’s new Preliminary Racial Equity Plan and its companion True Cost of Living Measure. It’s hard to deny that New York is…

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