By Adriano Machado SUCUNDURI, Brazil (Reuters) – Deep in the Amazon (NASDAQ:) rainforest, Brazil is fighting destructive wildcat gold mining as it spreads from Indigenous lands into government-protected conservation areas. Federal Police have joined the government’s biodiversity conservation agency ICMBio on a series of recent operations to catch illegal gold…

Investing.com – The U.S. dollar retreated in early European trade Friday, as a key inflation release added to expectations that U.S. interest rates have peaked. At 04:40 ET (09:40 GMT), the Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, traded 0.2% lower to 103.212, after…

Source: promesaartstudio/AdobeAround 290,000 South Korean public sector workers will be forced to declare their crypto holdings starting from February.Per Maeil Kyungjae, the Ministry of Personnel Management has declared that the rule will also apply to employees’ spouses and next of kin.The development follows a recent ministry announcement that high-ranking public…

A number of commodities made notable moves in 2023, with gold and frozen orange-juice prices reaching record highs, but key commodities indexes are on track to post their largest losses in five years, pressured by declines in natural gas, coal, and grains.The S&P GSCI XX:SPGSCI, a benchmark for investments in…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An American Airlines flight lands at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. January 9, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group representing major passenger airlines on Friday urged U.S. transportation officials to do more to address the impact of private planes…

By Naveen Thukral and Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Cocoa and iron ore prices surged in 2023, while and coal prices tumbled, with most agricultural products expected to outperform energy and industrial metals in the New Year amid supply constraints and dry weather. The Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Excess Return Index,…

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar fell on Friday, after two days of gains, as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell struck a cautious tone on further interest rate moves, saying that the risk of under- or over-tightening is now more balanced. The market viewed his comments as dovish,…

While the MINA price has been rallying since December 19, Bitcoin Minetrix presale has surpassed expectations, reaching $7.1 million in crypto presale round. Image by Kerem Goktug Kaya, DALL-E 3.Mina Foundation‘s MINA has been performing well since December 19, which can be attributed to a series of fundamental developments that…

It was a great year, one full of missed predictions, superlative market moves, contradictory currents—and one final disappointment. No matter how hard it tried, the S&P 500 index just couldn’t close at a record high in 2023. Oh, it tried. The S&P 500 got as far as 4793 on Thursday…

Europe faced an unprecedented energy crisis for around seventeen months (from September 2021 to February 2023), as coal, natural gas, and electricity prices surged to all-time highs. Governments across the continent rushed in to introduce energy-saving measures and implement conservation policies, while households and businesses had to cut consumption rapidly.…