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The job cuts will happen despite an increase in its network connection, whereby BT Group reported a total of 8.6 million 5G connections, up 62% last year. Shares of BT Group PLC (LSE: BT.A) dropped as much as 8 percent on Thursday to trade around £136.85. The sudden drop in the £14.91 billion valued British multinational telecommunications holding company was attributed to the announcement that between 40,000 to 55,000 of its workforce will be reduced by 2030. According to the company, the...

Walmart “leveraged expenses and expanded operating margin” in Q1 2023 and now expects a 3.5% increase in consolidated net sales for the year.  Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) has raised its 2023 full-year guidance following its stellar Q1 earnings report. On Thursday, the multinational retail corporation reported better-than-expected revenue, which was boosted by grocery and online businesses. For the first quarter of the year, Walmart posted revenue of $152.30 billion compared to the $148.76...

The investor community is brewing with optimism as it expects AI to drive profit growth at a time of rising borrowing costs and supply chain problems Although the onslaught of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a major disruption in the market date, banking giant Goldman Sachs is bullish about the tech and expects it to boost the S&P 500 profits over the next decade. The emergence of ChatGPT from OpenAI and several AI platforms subsequently, has created a significant storm in the...

Sony could pursue a partial divisional spin-off by listing its finance unit within the next two to three years. Sony Group Corp is reportedly mulling a partial spin-off and listing of its finance unit just three years after assuming full ownership. The Japanese multinational conglomerate could retain a stake of slightly less than 20% of Sony Financial Group. In addition to a possible spin-off, Sony is also focusing on other operational plans, including strengthening its entertainment and...

The SEC crackdown on crypto firms has intensified significantly since the bear market of last year incited by several collapses and bankruptcy filings of crypto exchanges. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has tagged Filecoin (FIL) as an unregistered security. As a result, the regulator expects Grayscale Investments its application for Filecoin Trust. According to an update given by Grayscale about the status of the Trust’s registration in a statement on Form 10, a...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up EOS price is trading in a bearish zone below the $0.95 support against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $0.88 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance near $0.87 on the 4-hour chart of the EOS/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase)....

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Litecoin started a steady increase above $92 against the US Dollar. LTC price is now trading above $92 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break above a key bearish trend line with resistance at $85 on the 4-hour chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could gain...

US remittance system Ripple acquired Metaco to leverage the company’s resources and entrench itself in the emerging crypto custody market. Ripple has acquired Swiss-based Metaco for $250 million as part of the remittance network’s expansion into institutional crypto custody. The acquisition also comes amid a favorable ruling for Ripple in its ongoing lawsuit with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Ripple’s acquisition of Metaco underpins the US-based tech platform’s faith in the...

According to Chinese prosecutors, NFT creators hide in plain view through the use of airdrops, blind boxes, limited sales, and synthesis. The Chinese government has pushed the country to digital economy adoption post-Covid-19 global pandemic. The country has significantly rolled out the digital yuan in anticipation to widen the adoption of its currency as a global reserve. The digital Yuan is expected to significantly help improve the overall liquidity of cryptocurrencies in the Asian...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Dieter Wermuth – a noted economist and partner at Wermuth Asset Management – explained in a recent note that he thinks the overall economy would be better without bitcoin, and that people should try to forget about the currency for a little while. Dieter Wermuth on Why Bitcoin is Pointless Bitcoin has been...