Day: November 12, 2024

UK News: Traders hope president-elect will favour cryptocurrencies when he returns to the White House

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The price of bitcoin has risen above $81,000 for the first time as it benefited from traders’ hopes that Donald Trump will favour cryptocurrencies when he returns to the White House.

Bitcoin touched a record high of $81,899, before dropping back to about $81,100, a gain of about 2.7% on Monday. The price has more than doubled from about $37,000 12 months ago. Continue reading…
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Charlie Falconer says current law ‘completely broken’ in press conference with MP behind bill, Kim Leadbeater

Leadbeater introduces the next speaker, Nat Dye, who has terminal cancer. She says she thinks his views are the most important for people to hear at this press conference.

He says he has known “positive” experiences of death. His fiance and his mother both had relatively peaceful deaths. He says palliative care can work for some people. Continue reading…
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Britain’s biggest pharmaceutical company raises 2024 profit forecast and announces $3.5bn US investment

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AstraZeneca has said that the drugmaker is taking investigations by Chinese authorities into its business in the country “very seriously” and will “fully cooperate” with them.

Authorities are thought to be investigating the importation of two cancer treatments manufactured by Britain’s biggest pharmaceutical company into China. Continue reading…
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