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The price of Render (RNDR) has fallen by 12% today, dropping to $1.80 following a very profitable couple of weeks for the utility token.Despite today’s drop, RNDR has risen by 50% in April and by over 340% since the beginning of the year, making it one of 2023’s best-performing tokens.However, while it’s possibly too late for newcomers to make such impressive gains from the coin now, other new altcoins are showing similar potential, with a handful of presale tokens among the most promising in the market right now.And one of the most interesting of these is DeeLance (DLANCE), an Ethereum-based…

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Rapid-grocery apps raised billions of dollars at big valuations throughout the pandemic. A return to normal habits and a drop in VC funding have stymied these firms. Flink is raising around $100 million at a haircut to an earlier valuation, sources said. Grocery-delivery app Flink is in touch with investors over a fresh capital injection at a lower valuation, sources say, as a clawback in venture capital funding and changing consumer habits reverse the rapid-grocery sector’s fortunes.The firm hopes to raise in the region of $100 million primarily from its existing investors, three sources familiar with the company’s plans said.…

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Deloitte has told staff it will cut around 1,200 jobs in the US, becoming the latest of the Big Four accounting firms to react to a slowdown on the consulting side of its business.The reductions amount to 1.5 per cent of the US workforce, they were told, but will be higher in areas such as the financial advisory business, which has been affected by a slump in merger and acquisition activity.Leaders of Deloitte’s Risk and Financial Advisory division revealed the extent of the cuts in a call with staff on Thursday, according to employees discussing the matter in online forums.…

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Hear what judge who suspended abortion pill said in undisclosed radio interviews CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reports on the federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk who first suspended the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the so-called abortion pill mifepristone and failed to disclose during his Senate confirmation process two interviews on Christian talk radio where he discussed social issues such as contraception and gay rights. Read the full article here

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Meta Platforms surpassed Tesla in market value after the close of trading Thursday for the first time in 16 months as the strategies of their respective chief executives diverged. Tesla (ticker: TSLA), led by billionaire Elon Musk, finished Thursday as the eighth-biggest public U.S. company, just behind Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta finished Thursday’s session with a market cap of $552.4 billion, topping Tesla’s market cap of $515.7 billion, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The shift followed a drop in Tesla’s value after shares fell nearly 10% Thursday following disappointing earnings from the electric-vehicle maker. Musk has…

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Meta Platforms Inc.’s stock has been on a hot streak since the company first announced its cost-cutting plans last fall, and that helped it achieve a milestone Thursday that Mark Zuckerberg had not seen in more than a year. Meta META, -0.95% finished Thursday’s session with a market value higher than Tesla Inc.’s TSLA, -0.67%, the first such occurrence since Dec. 20, 2021, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Meta is now the seventh largest public U.S. company by market capitalization, with Tesla in the No. 8 spot. Both Meta, which had a $552.4 billion valuation at the session’s end,…

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Put aside for a moment all that nutritional advice about eating fruits and vegetables, whole grains and lean proteins. Could one key to good health actually be a diet rich in … ice cream?That’s the tantalizing question raised by a new story in the Atlantic, which states, “Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it.” The story, which seems destined to create controversy, is a deep dive into how nutritional science works — for better and for worse. It begins by looking at Harvard research from 2018 showing that diabetics who consumed…

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By Ed Frankl Confidence among U.K. consumers rose for third consecutive month in April to its highest level in more than a year, indicating that momentum toward an economic recovery could be building, despite cost-of-living pressures from sky-high inflation. Research firm GfK said its consumer-confidence barometer stood at minus 30 in April compared with minus 36 a month earlier, an improvement on the minus 34 expected by economists polled by The Wall Street Journal. The reading is the highest since the minus 26 registered in February 2022, but remains subdued by historical standards, as confidence recovers from a record low…

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© Reuters U.S. stocks mixed at close of trade; Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.23% Investing.com – U.S. stocks were mixed after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher while losses in the , and sectors led shares lower. At the close in NYSE, the declined 0.23%, while the index lost 0.01%, and the index climbed 0.03%. The best performers of the session on the were The Travelers Companies Inc (NYSE:), which rose 6.15% or 10.57 points to trade at 182.57 at the close. Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:) added 0.94% or 1.52…

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