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The draws continue to narrow at the YONEX Northern Marianas Open, and with the field wide open, both seeded players and underdogs brought their best in a bid for coveted semifinal spots. In their first international outing as a duo in nearly a year, Tori Aizawa/Hina Osawa (JPN) toppled 2024 Olympic silver medalist Jeong Na Eun (KOR) and her partner Cho Song Hyun in the mixed doubles. With a swift start to the match, the Japanese pair darted around the court, carefully placing the shuttle just out of reach of their opponents. Cho/Jeong found a rhythm in the second game…

Ripple XRP is trading at $1.08, down more than 60% from its all-time high of $3.65 set on July 18, 2025, and the search data tells the same story the price chart does. According to Google Trends, worldwide XRP search interest peaked at a score of 100 during the week of July 13–20, 2025, exactly when the cryptocurrency hit its record high. By the week of July 12–19, 2026, that score had collapsed to 9, a 91% decline that reflects not just falling prices but a fundamental evaporation of retail attention. The central tension this data surfaces: XRP spent years…

Iraq’s latest collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) marks more than a technical upgrade to the Central Bank of Iraq’s forecasting capabilities. It represents an important step toward building stronger economic governance in a country where oil continues to dominate public finances and macroeconomic stability. The IMF’s technical assistance programme, delivered through its Institute for Capacity Development (ICD) in partnership with the Middle East Regional Technical Assistance Center (METAC), has equipped the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) with a customized Macroeconomic Foundations Tool (MFT) that enables policymakers to simulate economic scenarios, improve inflation and exchange-rate analysis, and better understand…

Helen Easton said: “We will continue to develop our policies, culture and employee experience with Platinum status firmly in our sights.” Darlington Building Society has been awarded Investors in People Gold accreditation, recognising its commitment to creating an inclusive workplace.  The accreditation followed survey feedback and assessment, with Darlington scoring above the sector average. Darlington’s strongest scoring areas included leading and inspiring people, living the organisation’s values and behaviours, and empowering and involving colleagues.  The assessment highlighted positive relationships between managers and teams, clear pride in working at the Society, and strong understanding of the Society’s values. Helen Easton, chief…

Warren Buffett served as chief executive officer of the Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA +0.73%)(BRKB +0.82%) holding company for 60 years between 1965 and 2025. His investment decisions turned it into a conglomerate with numerous wholly owned subsidiaries, a $357 billion stock portfolio, and a $1 trillion valuation. Berkshire stock delivered a compound annual return of 19.7% during Buffett’s tenure, so an investment of $500 in 1965 would have grown to a whopping $24 million by the time he stepped down. But he was a full-time professional, and he always knew the average investor would struggle to replicate his results. For that…

Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: PAR) has announced the conversion of convertible notes into ordinary fully paid shares, with 9,437,229 new shares issued on 17 July 2026. The conversion stems from the exercise of 900,000 convertible notes (PARAAD) that have been converted into ordinary shares at an issue price of AUD 0.15 per security. The move increases the company’s quoted equity capital and reflects the ongoing conversion of debt-like instruments into equity as part of the company’s capital management strategy. Key Points Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals Limited (PAR) has lodged an application for quotation of 9,437,229 ordinary fully paid shares issued on 17…

At the top of the market, in the spring of 2022, the floor price for a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT sat above a hundred ETH, six figures in dollars for a cartoon primate. Collections with no art to speak of, just procedurally generated rocks and pixel blobs, changed hands for the price of a down payment. Then the buyers stopped arriving. What’s left is one of the stranger financial graveyards on record. A 2023 study by the crypto platform dappGambl went through more than 73,000 NFT collections and found that roughly 95 percent of them had fallen to a…

EQT boosted by strong fundraising momentum and earnings growth Financial Times Source link

The most predictable phenomena can also be the most surprising. Just look at the revival of “socialism” as a politically viable idea in the US and UK.Ten years ago, the global crisis laid bare the failures of financial capitalism. This gave the political left an opportunity to win support for its agenda. Yet almost every established centre-left party in the developed world bungled this shot at political dominance.Loading…Financial Times Source link

Suspected collusion between activist investors and buyout funds has raised concerns over corporate value and legal fairness. (EPA Images pic) TOKYO: Japan’s ruling party raised concerns on Friday over suspected collusion between activist investors and buyout funds in take-private deals, warning that such arrangements could undermine fairness in capital markets. In draft policy proposals, the Liberal Democratic Party’s project team on corporate governance said that there have been some cases in which activists are suspected of working behind the scenes with private equity funds seeking to take listed companies private. Such cases “raise concerns from the perspectives of both enhancing…