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As borders open up following prolonged COVID-induced travel restrictions, the Metaverse, one of the latest sub-crypto ecosystems, is set to help travelers decide on the destinations they want to experience in person, reveals a new survey conducted by Booking (NASDAQ:).com personally. Popular online travel agency Booking.com surveyed 24,179 respondents across 32 countries, which revealed travelers’ strong interest in virtually exploring destinations as they decide on their itinerary. Out of the lot, people most likely to try out travel experiences in the metaverse were Gen Z (45%) and Millennials (43%).Most popular type of vacation. Source: Booking.comContinue Reading on Coin Telegraph Source…

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A medical worker collects a swab sample from a person at a makeshift testing site next to a mobile testing vehicle dispatched from mainland China, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tung Chung, Hong Kong, China February By Ryan Woo and Winni Zhou BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Funeral homes across China’s COVID-hit capital Beijing, a city of 22 million, scrambled on Saturday to keep up with calls for funeral and cremation services as workers and drivers testing positive for the novel coronavirus called in sick. After declaring that the Omicron strain has weakened, and unprecedented public protests…

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S&P 500, VIX, EURUSD and Economic Event Risk Talking Points:The Market Perspective: USDJPY Bearish Below 137; EURUSD Bearish Below 1.0550; S&P 500 Bearish Below 4,030Despite a run of event risk that included 50bp rate hikes from the FOMC, ECB and BOE along with plenty of contraction from PMIs and inflation surprises; we transition weeks without a clear risk beadExpectations for liquidity will drop sharply over the coming two weeks, but struggle for trends from the SPX doesn’t preclude volatility for the Dollar Recommended by John Kicklighter Building Confidence in Trading We were overloaded with high-profile event risk this past week.…

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4/4 © Reuters. Rescuers work during a rescue and evacuation operation following a landslide at a campsite in Batang Kali, Selangor state, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 16, 2022, in this picture obtained from social media. Korporat JBPM/via REUTERS 2/4 KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The search for the remaining 12 campers caught in Friday’s deadly landslide at an unlicensed campsite in Malaysia continued for a second day after an overnight halt due to bad weather, officials said. At least 21 people, including five children, were killed after a landslide in Batang Kali, a popular hilly area about…

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designer491 Canadian fintech Greifenberg Digital (GDLT) has filed to raise up to $15M through a direct offering of its shares on the US market. Greifenberg said in a filing that it intends to offer up to 3M shares at the assumed price of $5 per share, a number that could likely change. Shares will be offered by management on behalf of the company on a “best efforts” basis, with no underwriter involved. Investors can subscribe to the offering by filling out an application attached to the prospectus. The offer will be completed 180 days from the date of the prospectus…

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Tesla’s new electric semi truck is unveiled during a presentation in Hawthorne, California, U.S., November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Alexandria Sage/File Photo By Jessica DiNapoli and Hyunjoo Jin NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – PepsiCo (NASDAQ:) plans to roll out 100 heavy-duty Tesla (NASDAQ:) Semis in 2023, when it will start using the electric trucks to make deliveries to customers like Walmart (NYSE:) and Kroger (NYSE:), the soda maker’s top fleet official told Reuters on Friday. PepsiCo Inc, which ordered the big trucks in 2017, is purchasing them “outright” and is also upgrading its plants, including installing four 750-kilowatt…

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