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Hyundai promises 0-100 km / h take-off performance in under 3 seconds with its vehicle. LG Electronics, a South Korean electronics firm, and Hyundai Motor, a South Korean automotive manufacturer, have reportedly launched their new IONIQ Concept Cabin.

Apple has become the first American company to be valued at $2 trillion (£1.52 trillion), after a share rise on Wednesday pushed it over the two trillion dollar mark. That honour belongs to energy producer Saudi Aramco , which attained it in December 2019. But the oil giant's value has slipped back to $1.8tn since then and Apple surpassed it to become the world's most valuable traded company at the end of July.

Those benefits will be paid at $500 per week as well. "I've always said my goal has been to find a way to fight for people, to get help and deliver that help to people and I'm really happy that we were able to achieve that", Singh said Friday at a news conference on Parliament Hill.

Gold (XAU/USD) prices declined to the lowest level recorded since July as the USA dollar gains on rising concerns over new Covid-19 cases in Europe and emerging doubts on additional stimulus from the Fed in the United States. The Federal Reserve's "monetary policy confusion has boosted the dollar index, and this increase in the dollar index has brought more weakness for the gold price", said Aslam.

He paid no income taxes whatsoever in 10 of the previous 15 years, largely because he reported losing more money than he made, according to the Times , which obtained years worth of tax return data that the president had long fought to keep private.

London time. Although it's expected West Texas Intermediate prices remain above the $38.50/ barrel in the near term as the Chinese of late had increased buying pressures on US crude, perhaps in an attempt to meet up its obligations on the energy import quotas agreed with the Americans in 2019 and also taking advantage of the relatively cheap price of the black liquid derivative.

According to a letter Friday by the Commerce Department , American suppliers of certain technology products to SMIC will need to apply for individual licenses before they can export to the Chinese company. Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp and Vanguard International Semiconductor, which compete head-to-head with SMIC in more mature chip production technologies, surged 10% and 9% respectively.

Appeals against General Court rulings can only be taken up to the ECJ on points of law, rather than in an argument over the facts of the case. " We have to continue to use all tools at our disposal to ensure companies pay their fair share of tax ", Vestager said.

New orders for US durable goods rose in August for the fourth straight month but at a slower pace than earlier in the summer, the USA government said Friday. "Bloomberg Economics expects the rebound will fade into year-end". July's surge had been led by new orders for transportation equipment, but they posted more modest growth of 0.5 per cent in August with motor vehicles and parts orders falling 4.0 per cent and defense aircraft and parts falling 6.4 per cent after surging 75.3 per cent ...

The airline recommends that travelers buy the test at least 10 days ahead of their trip and collect their sample within 72 hours of departure time, then send test results by overnight mail or an SFO dropbox. It has made COVID-19 tests available to all essential workers in San Francisco. United is the first US airline to offer such on-the-spot, preflight coronavirus testing.

A new report from the MTA Inspector General on Thursday revealed that all three unidentified men were served disciplinary charges and suspended without pay. The OIG also found an air mattress in its original box with a sales receipt and a clear plastic bag filled with sheets and a comforter. The three employees, a wireman, a carpenter foreman and an electrical foreman were put on overnight shifts.

The limit extends to a small number of products online, such as rice and canned vegetables, it added. Supermarket groups told the BBC customers had not resorted to panic buying since the government's announcement but pictures on social media have shown empty shelves for items such as toilet roll and cereals .

Negotiations have been stalled for almost two months, with House Democrats and the administration showing few signs of a willingness to compromise on proposals that are billions of dollars apart. With the Treasury committing $1 for every $8 loaned under the program, that would still leave idle $70 billion of the Treasury's backstop. Pressed by some lawmakers to offer ways to expand the Main Street lending program, Powell said that if the economy fares worse than the Fed expects in coming ...

For families unsure about how safe this Halloween may be, the Halloween and Costume Association has collaborated with Harvard's Global Health Institute to create a map that tracks and color-codes Covid risk levels in each county throughout the nation.

In a report on Thursday, the Labour Department said that in the week ending September 19, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose by 4,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised level of 866,000, marking the fifth time in the past 27 weeks that the number was below 1 million, reports Xinhua news agency.

The allegations? Contravening the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act (AML/CTF) as many as 23 million times, and for failing to stop payments associated with child exploitation. Westpac has also admitted it failed to carry out appropriate due diligence on its customers, with 284 clients making transactions indicative of suspicious activity including child exploitation in South East Asian countries.

Mr Sunak said it would give businesses "the option of keeping employees in a job on shorter hours, rather than making them redundant". Prime Minster Boris Johnson, however, said his government was doing its utmost to protect jobs and described the new economic measures as "creative and imaginative".

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are working on a $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that could be voted on next week, a key lawmaker said, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated she is ready to negotiate with the White House.

Shopify said in a notice on the company's discussion forum that after an investigation it terminated the two support team members' access to the Shopify network and "referred the incident to law enforcement". The company will notify any merchants who were affected as needed, but said it has not found "evidence of the data being utilized". It's unclear how much data they actually stole, which the blog post said came from fewer than 200 merchants.

The pricing for VW's first electric SUV is only supposed to get better. Built on a steel frame, the ID.4 will initially be available as a 201 horsepower RWD with an estimated range of around 250 miles on a full charge of its 83 kWh battery pack.

Harley-Davidson's spell in India was troubled for another reason: it found itself caught in an India-US tariff war. Harley-Davidson Inc said on Thursday it would discontinue its sales and manufacturing operations in India, effectively abandoning the world's biggest motorcycle market after a decade of unsuccessful efforts to gain a foothold.

Deputy Premier Steven Miles says the withdrawal will put pressure on police, who will have to work more shifts and longer hours at border checkpoints. The last time NSW had consecutive days without community transmission was July 3, 4 and 5. There were six cases of COVID-19 recorded in returned travellers who were confined to hotel quarantine.

The draft text calls on Belarusian authorities to "enable independent, transparent and impartial investigations into all allegations of human rights violations in the context of the election ", and "to guarantee access to justice and redress for victims as well as full accountability of the perpetrators".

Aerospace giant Airbus has unveiled plans for what it hailed as the first commercial zero-emission aircraft. Hydrogen use would require some major design changes for aircraft, as the fuel requires about four times the storage space of kerosene for the same energy content.

A train hindered after entering contact with particles on the roadbed as it was pulling into a train station in Manhattan Sunday early morning, according to the MTA. Police said Harvard threw the debris onto the track, which was later identified as a metal tie plate or D plate. The swipe of the train caused massive chunks of metal to be peeled back on the train according to the incident report from police.