Economy
Gold prices rise due to the weakness of the dollar
Gold prices were supported by a weaker dollar on Friday as investors waited for US jobs data to learn about the Federal Reserve’s plans to reduce asset purchases.
And gold on the spot traded up 0.2 percent at $ 1812.97 an ounce 0641 GMT, down 0.2 percent for the week.
U.S. gold futures are up 0.2 percent at $ 1814.80.
The dollar index has been hovering around a month, which increases the attractiveness of gold to holders of other currencies. The US currency is heading for a second straight week.
“We see the pre-emption of individuals who want to take advantage of the NFP,” said Stephen Innes, managing partner at SBI Asset Management.
The release of the weak number “would be very favorable for gold because it reinforces the highly cautious expectations of US Federal Reserve Chairman (Jerome) Powell … get a strong reading.”
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits since last week fell last week, the lowest level in 24 years, in August, ahead of the Department of Labor’s report on outstanding U.S. farm wage earners at 1230 GMT. .
Powell said last week that if job growth continues, the central bank will begin to cut property purchases this year, but will be cautious in deciding whether to raise interest rates.
Although gold is considered a protector against inflation and monetary volatility by unprecedented stimulus measures, it lowers the opportunity cost of holding a yellow metal that does not yield low interest rates.
Among other precious metals, silver rose 0.3 percent to $ 23.96 an ounce.
Platinum was up 0.3 percent at $ 1001.66 and Palladium was up 0.6 percent at $ 2415.49.
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Economy
Dubai Taxi increases the number of shares allocated to individuals in the public contribution
Dubai Taxi
Dubai Taxi Company on Tuesday announced that it will increase the number of shares allocated from its initial public offering to individual investors in the UAE in response to strong demand for their shares, and instead, it will reduce the number of shares allocated to professional investors. 25 percent of the total shares of the company remain unchanged.
Dubai Taxi reported that the number of shares allotted to individual investors in the UAE has been increased from 62.475 million to 74.970 million ordinary shares, following the approval of the Securities and Commodities Authority.
Based on the previously announced price range of between 1.8 and 1.85 dirhams per share, the value of the shares allocated to the individual investor segment will now be approximately 135 to 139 million dirhams, which, compared, would represent 12 percent of the size of the initial offering. to the earlier announced 10 per cent.
The offer size remains unchanged at 624.750 million ordinary shares, representing 24.99 percent of the total issued shares in the company’s capital. As a result of the increase in shares allocated to the category of individual investors in the UAE, 549.780 million ordinary shares will be allocated to the category of qualified investors instead of 562.275 million ordinary shares, representing 88 percent of the total offering shares. 90 percent of the previously reported.
As the subscription period for individual investors in the UAE ends on November 28, 2023, the subscription period for qualified investors ends on November 29.
The offering is expected to be completed and listed shares accepted on December 7, 2023, subject to market conditions and receipt of relevant regulatory approvals in the UAE, including approval for listing and trading on the Dubai Financial Market. Report.
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Chinese tech giant ByteDance, which owns the TikTok app, has decided to cut hundreds of jobs at its gaming unit, an informed source told AFP on Monday, reflecting the group’s retreat from the highly competitive video game industry.
“News,” a Beijing-based video game publisher affiliated with Byte Dance, is currently conducting a round of layoffs that will affect “hundreds of people,” the source said.
A Byte Dance spokesperson said in a statement, “We continue to review our business and make changes to focus on areas of long-term strategic growth.” “Following a recent review, we have made the difficult decision to restructure our gaming division.”
The decision to exit the video games industry comes despite Byte Dance’s large investments in Newverse over the past years in an effort to catch up with video games leader Tencent.
A source told AFP that although the sector’s size would decrease significantly, the current cuts did not represent a complete shutdown of the sector.
The source indicated that the staff reductions are aimed at helping ByteDance focus on its core business and streamline its organizational structure, with games not yet launched slated to close in December.
Games with active players, including the popular action game, the source said Atlan’s CrystalThe company will continue its operations as it seeks to diversify assets.
Launched in 2019 in an attempt to challenge Tencent’s dominance, Neoverse failed to achieve the commercial success that Byte Dance had hoped for.
China-based tech giant Tencent dominates the Asian market and is the biggest player in the global video game industry by revenue, investing in game studios around the world.
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The “X” platform (formerly Twitter) is at risk of losing about $75 million within a year of its takeover by Elon Musk, a new report has revealed, amid a rapid withdrawal of advertisers.
According to the information published in the newspaper The New York TimesX’s ad department losses are the result of the withdrawal of more than 200 advertisers over the course of a year, including Amazon, Apple and Airbnb.
Since November 2022 Musk’s acquisition of controversial content publishers.
Anti-establishment
Advertisers’ pushback accelerated this November when Elon Musk made a comment endorsing a comment that was characterized as anti-Semitic. There he said: “I told the real truth”, “Jewish communities support hate. Of white people” and Musk tried to backtrack. Without evidence of what he wrote, he suggested he was primarily talking about his opponents in the Anti-Defamation League.
The US newspaper’s statement comes after Musk and others, as well as showing their ads next to anti-Semitic and hateful posts.
Although the platform’s CEO Linda Yaccarino acknowledged that some companies’ ads appeared with infringing content, X continued to sue.
It is reported that the public relations agency “11:11“, the star joins Paris Hilton, who has severed her partnership with X due to Musk’s position.
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