Author: Charlotte

Ten weeks ago, Peter Watson fell off a wall. He shattered one of his feet and broke the other. Tonight he will sleep rough, with his wheelchair and moon boots, a short distance from Queensland’s glitzy Gold Coast tourist strip.“It’s agony all day, most days. Doesn’t make it easy being in a wheelchair and living on the streets at the same time,” he said.Peter is one of an estimated thousands of homeless people on the Gold Coast facing uncertainty after a council crackdown. The City of Gold Coast Council rangers are now proactively patrolling homeless hotspots, closing tent cities, issuing…

Western Union is looking to stablecoins and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for growth after a quarter in which revenue was flat due to a decline in the Americas business. During the first quarter, the company’s GAAP revenue was flat year over year while its adjusted revenue was down 1%, according to a Friday (April 24) earnings release. Western Union attributed these results to macro pressure in its Americas retail business. “As you know, remittances in the Americas have faced meaningful pressure that began early last year and continued through this winter, particularly across our key U.S. to Latin American corridors,”…

Key Takeaways Supply is heavily correlated to demand, and the two concepts are intertwined to create market equilibrium, which defines the availability of goods in the market and the prices at which they’re sold.Supply is graphically depicted, and the supply curve maps the relationship between price and quantity by being shown as an upward-sloping line.Supply is determined by market demand, cost constraints, consumer preferences, and government policy.Supply is often broken into short-term and long-term supply, although there are other types of supply. What Is Supply? Supply is a fundamental economic concept that describes the quantity of a good or service that…

Booing has marred Anzac Day commemorations in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, while on the Gold Coast, the Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith attended the dawn service at Currumbin beach.One man was arrested at the Sydney dawn service at Martin Place, where there was a small but noisy interjection of booing during the Indigenous acknowledgement of country.After the disturbance was quietened, a chorus of applause and cheering rang out for an extended period to show support for Uncle Ray Minniecon.Minniecon told the ABC that those interjecting needed to understand “this always was and always will be Aboriginal land”.“We have experienced this…

Brad Setser, industry influencer, observes a notable increase in bill holdings and a flat or declining trend in cash equivalents within the UAE central bank’s reserves. He suggests this shift indicates the UAE central bank entered March with a significant amount of liquidity, but also emphasizes the need for further scrutiny to uncover additional insights. Setser has previously observed that declines in foreign exchange reserves are most pronounced among oil-importing countries such as Turkey and India, according to his earlier analysis. In another note, he commented on the usefulness of Chinese export statistics for tracking U.S. import discrepancies. His recent…

DENVER, April 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ArrowMark Financial Corp., (NASDAQ: BANX) (“ArrowMark Financial”), today announced that BANX’s estimated and unaudited Net Asset Value (“NAV”) as of March 31, 2026, was $21.12. This estimated NAV is not a comprehensive statement of our financial condition or results for the month end. About ArrowMark Financial Corp. ArrowMark Financial Corp. is an SEC registered non-diversified, closed-end fund listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “BANX.” Its investment objective is to provide shareholders with current income. BANX pursues its objective by investing primarily in regulatory capital securities of financial institutions. BANX…

Small-cap value spent years playing second fiddle to large-cap growth, especially as everyone piled into just a few tech giants. But the vibe heading into the middle of 2026 is shifting. The Federal Reserve has been active, cutting rates down to the 3.50% to 3.75% range over the last year. Even with the 10-year Treasury yield sitting around 4.3%, the economy feels steady. We saw corporate profits jump a healthy 13.6% in the final quarter of 2025, which has really helped fuel this rotation. You can already see the change in the price action. Over the last 12 months, small-cap…

DUBAI, UAE, April 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — XRP Ledger-powered utility token driving the XRPH AI ecosystem, with XRPHAI Rewards activating April 28 and enhanced rewards for XRPH holders to follow shortly. See the official MEXC announcement: https://www.mexc.com/announcements/article/17827791535042. XRP Healthcare: XRPHAI, a Utility Token Rewarding Healthy Actions, to Go Live on MEXC April 27 at 10:00 AM UTC XRP Healthcare, the first AI healthcare platform built on the XRP Ledger, today confirms that $XRPHAI (the “XRPHAI” utility token) will go live for trading on MEXC at 10:00 AM UTC on April 27, 2026, marking the next phase in the evolution of…

The Department of Community Development and Applied Economics is excited to announce its second student design contest and their first collaborative design contest with the Department of Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment. Building on the success of the inaugural CDAE Sticker Design Contest in 2025, this new collaboration marks an important milestone by bringing CDAE and ALE students together in a shared creative initiative. This brand-new creative contest invites all CDAE and ALE students to design an original sock featuring the official CDAE spirit mark. The design should reflect the connection between the departments, current students, and the broader campus community. The winning design will…

Chainlink (LINK) has launched its Data Standard on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, giving developers and financial institutions direct access to blockchain connectivity tools through AWS infrastructure.The launch brings Chainlink Data Feeds, Chainlink Data Streams and Chainlink Proof of Reserve into the AWS Marketplace, allowing enterprises to access the services through existing AWS tools.Chainlink’s AWS integration addresses ‘oracle problem’ for blockchainsThe move aims to solve the challenge of linking traditional cloud environments with blockchain networks while meeting the security, compliance and reliability standards required by institutions. Chainlink highlighted the step as a necessary solution even as banks and asset…