Report - page 14

Finance & Economics

Gold Prices Reach $3,000

On Friday, March 14, gold prices reached the $3,000 per ounce mark for the first time in history.

News

US Stocks Rebound

In the United States, stock indexes showed gains on Friday, March 14, as investors tried to stage a rebound to end a rocky week.

Science & Technology

Omni Raises $69 Million

Omni closed a Series B funding round worth $69 million this month.

News

MoonPay Acquires Iron

Crypto payment giant MoonPay is expanding its push into the enterprise market as a result of the acquisition of Iron, an API-first stablecoin infrastructure startup.

News

Worth Raises $25 Million

Automation-focused fintech platform Worth raised $25 million in new funding.

Science & Technology

Corsair Capital Acquires Stake in Platform IDnow

Investment company Corsair Capital has acquired a majority stake in the German IDnow identity verification platform.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Visa Says About Results of Its Anti-Fraud Unit Activity

Visa said that its anti-fraud disruption department saved potential victims of scammers $350 million last year.

Finance & Economics

US Budget Deficit Increases

The United States’ debt and budget deficit problem worsened during President Donald Trump’s first month in office.

News

EU Launches Countermeasures Against US Metals Tariffs

On Wednesday, March 12, the European Union launched countermeasures against the United States tariffs on metal imports, announcing its intention to enact its own levies on American goods worth up to 26 billion euros ($28.3 billion).

News

US Inflation Declines

In the United States in February, consumer prices showed growth, the pace of which turned out to be the slowest in the last four months, against which a kind of respite is forming in anticipation of the impact of tariffs, characterized by many experts as a factor in increasing the cost of goods and services.

News

Female Entrepreneurs Strive in Middle Income Nations Focusing on Domestic Markets

The majority of the countries where male early-stage entrepreneurial activity rates exceed that of females by five percentage points or more belong to the high-income group.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Fintech Zolve Raises $251 Million

Neobank Zolve on Tuesday, March 11, announced that it raised $251 million in the latest round of debt and equity financing.

News

Founder of Startup Butterfly Effect Says Chinese AI Agent Manus Transcends Chatbots

The Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, which has developed the general-purpose artificial intelligence agent dubbed Manus, appears to become a significant change factor in the market of large language models in the Asian country, as this virtual product focuses on apps beyond chatbots similar to ChatGPT from OpenAI.

News

Donald Trump Doubles Tariffs on Canadian Steel and Aluminum

President of the United States Donald Trump on Tuesday, March 11, announced that he would raise tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from Canada to 50% in response to the decision of the province of Ontario to increase taxes on electricity sent to the US.

Finance & Economics

Gender Pay Gap Still an Issue in U.S.

As Women’s History Month progresses in the U.S., the same cannot be said about the gender pay gap, which hasn’t been shrinking much in the last few years.

Science & Technology

China Announces High-Tech Fund

After the artificial intelligence reasoning model, a product of the Chinese company DeepSeek, became popular globally in the current year, the top economic officials of the Asian country promised to form a state-backed fund to support technological innovation.