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☆ Marlon Brando's one-of-a-kind Rolex has been sold for more than $5 million — or has it?
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Marlon Brando's Rolex GMT-Master was recently sold at Christie's for more than $5 million. Brando's Rolex, which features unique customizations, was sold at Christie's auction house in November for more than $5 million. On November 6, 113 watches from his collection, including the Rolex GMT-Master, were auctioned off for more than $42 million. You can do anything you want to it and it will keep on going," Brando Fischer recalled her father telling her, according to the report. Brando Fischer later gifted the watch to her husband as a wedding present, which would be hidden in their home for years until it was auctioned.

Persons: Marlon Brando's, Brando, —, Marlon Brando, Francis Ford, Mohammed Zaman, Zaman, Denis Balibouse, Petra Brando Fischer, Brando Fischer, I'm, Walter E, Kurtz, Petra Organizations: Rolex, Service, Bloomberg, Oscar, Best, New York Times, Phillips, Brown University, Times Locations: Omani, Geneva, Vietnam

☆ Friday's analyst calls: Big drug stock upgrade, Alibaba downgrade, a new AI play
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The analyst lowered her price target to $99 from $106 per share. The new price target implies just a 5% gain from Thursday's close. The analyst's $115 price target, hiked from $70 previously, implies 43% upside from where the stock closed Thursday, at $80.36. ET: Morgan Stanley downgrades Alibaba Morgan Stanley cut Alibaba to equal-weight from overweight and lowered the firm's price target to $90 from $110. The analyst's $190 price target implies shares can rise just 2.6% from where they closed Thursday.

Persons: JPMorgan downgrades, Jessica Fye, Fye, Sarah Min, Wells Fargo, Andrew Nowinski, GenAI, Nowinski, FactSet, — Sarah Min, Morgan Stanley downgrades Alibaba Morgan Stanley, Alibaba, Morgan Stanley, PDD, John Melloy, Jason Bazinet, Bazinet, Johnson, Danielle Antalffy, Antalffy, Robert Ohmes, — John Melloy Organizations: CNBC, Spotify, JPMorgan, Investors, U.S, PDD Holdings, Citi, UBS, Johnson, Pharma, Bank of America, of America, Costco Locations: BioNTech, Thursday's, Wells Fargo, China, Darzalex, DARZALEX

☆ Argentina’s market rallied sharply on a historic election. How investors can play it
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Fred Imbert | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Argentina last week held a historic election in which libertarian candidate Javier Milei came out victorious, sending the country's stock market surging. The Merval , Argentina's stock market benchmark, rallied 42% for the week. The trade Trading in Argentine stocks has historically been a volatile endeavor. That said, there are ways for investors in the U.S. to get exposure to the Argentine market if they think stocks can rise during Milei's presidency. Other U.S.-listed Argentine stocks include oil name YPF — which surged nearly 57% last week — and Banco BBVA Argentina , which is up 34% in 2023.

Persons: Javier Milei, Milei, Diego Pereira, –, Jorge Morgenstern, GlobalX Organizations: JPMorgan, Senate, HSBC, Argentine, Banco BBVA Argentina Locations: Argentina, Argentine, U.S, . U.S

☆ It's been 2 years since the Nasdaq hit a record and it's gone nowhere since
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Michael Santoli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The loudest investor chatter for months has insisted the heavyweights of the Nasdaq have been everything to the market in 2023. Sunday is the second anniversary of the all-time closing high in both the Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq 100 indexes, which remain 12% and 4 % underwater even after their monster gains in recent months. It's relatively rare for the Nasdaq 100 – the most easily investable part of the Nasdaq and the one most reflective of the mega-cap dominance – to enter a two-year downturn. Only three of the Big Seven have outperformed the Nasdaq 100 over the past two years – Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft — while Meta Platforms has kept pace and Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla have lagged. Friday showed signs of outright rotation, the Russell 2000 up 1.3% versus a flat Nasdaq 100.

Persons: Invesco, Scott Chronert, we've, I've, –, Chronert, Apple's, What's, Berkshire Hathaway, Tony Pasquariello, Goldman Sachs, Russell, disinflation Organizations: Nasdaq, Sunday, QQQ, Citi, Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Berkshire, Fed Locations: lockstep, Berkshire, Whereto

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSolana rallies 11% amid broader altcoin rally: CNBC Crypto WorldCNBC Crypto World features the latest news and daily trading updates from the digital currency markets and provides viewers with a look at what's ahead with high-profile interviews, explainers, and unique stories from the ever-changing crypto industry. On today's show, Ric Edelman, founder of the Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals, discusses the latest trends in the crypto market.

Persons: explainers, Ric Edelman Organizations: Email Solana, CNBC Crypto, CNBC, Digital Assets, Financial Professionals

☆ E-Flight Challenge pitched a car against a plane -- and the car won
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Miquel Ros | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Members of the E-Flight Challenge team lined up to watch the battery-powered airplane gracefully descend on the island of Norderney, just off the northwest coast of Germany. The long road ahead for electric aviationYou could say that the E-Flight Challenge takes its inspiration from the early days of aviation. The Elektra Trainer used in the E-Flight Challenge, for example, can carry a maximum of two people. Miquel RosIn this context, the E-flight Challenge served as an illustration of the challenges of electric flight – but also of its promise. The progress compared to just three years ago has been astonishing!” explains Morell Westermann, one of the E-Flight Challenge initiators.

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Regulators have so far not mandated any minimum net worth or investor qualifications for those trading stock options, and the stock markets almost always rise each year - both recipes for higher risk-taking and complacency. The "stark" increase in daily options trading turnover raises issues of investor protection, said Ajay Tyagi, former SEBI chief. The platform has seen an uptick in futures and options trading activity, Zerodha said in response to Reuters queries. Siddharth Joshi, a 36-year old from Surat in western India, said he lost 200,000 rupees trading options on Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) shares in January. "In options trading, I know my loss is capped but there is an opportunity to make maximum profit," he said.

Persons: Francis Mascarenhas, Mihir Vora, SEBI, Ashish Chauhan, Ajay Tyagi, Kailash, Bhavesh Shah, Shah, Zerodha, Siddharth Joshi, he's, Ira Dugal, Vidya Ranganathan, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: Bombay Stock Exchange, REUTERS, Rights, Securities, Exchange Board of India, Trust Mutual Fund, National Stock Exchange of India Ltd, BSE Ltd, Reuters, Axis Mutual Fund, National Stock Exchange, Adani Enterprises, Thomson Locations: Mumbai, India, Rights MUMBAI, South Korea, Bhavesh, Ahmedabad, Surat

☆ A bitcoin ETF seems to be just around the corner. How will financial advisors react?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Edelman also founded Edelman Financial, a large firm of registered investment advisors. The potential of a bitcoin ETF has appeared to help fuel a recent rally in the cryptocurrency. Concerns from advisors Crypto's dramatic rise has largely come without the embrace of the traditional financial system, such as financial advisors and major banks. But not all financial advisors seem ready to embrace crypto just because investing in it is simpler. Client demand Even if advisors are skeptical of crypto, the arrival of bitcoin ETFs is sure to generate more questions from clients.

Persons: BlackRock, Ric Edelman, Edelman, Bitcoin, bitcoin, Sam Bankman, Randy Frederick, Frederick, Andrew Morgan, Taylor, Morgan, that's, Amy Hescht, They're Organizations: Nasdaq, Digital Assets Council, Financial Professionals, Edelman, The Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC, Blackrock, Schwab Center, Financial Research, Fidelity, Presper Financial, Advisors, fund's Locations: United States, U.S, Bitcoin, BlackRock, Michigan, Akron , Ohio

☆ This $1,600 speaker system makes your electric truck sound like it has a V8 engine. People joked it's the EV equivalent of sticking a playing card in your bike spokes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A demo of the system shows a Ford F-150 Lightning making V8 engine sounds. After all, though Ford's electric truck might have a massive frunk, its motor is far quieter than its gasoline-powered counterparts. Borla, a company that designs and manufactures exhaust systems, is now selling a $1,600 aftermarket "active performance sound system for EV." Another company called Thor Tuning sells an "electric exhaust system" for EVs. And car companies like Hyundai and Dodge have gotten in on the action too, producing electric cars with built in electric exhaust sound systems.

Persons: —, TFLstudios, Borla Organizations: Service, Shelby Mustang, Kufatec, Hyundai, Dodge Locations: TikTok

☆ Stellantis says it least affected by N.America strikes among Detroit Three
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] A Stellantis employee works on the e-GMP electric engine assembly line at the carmaker Stellantis engines factory in Tremery near Metz, France, June 29, 2022. And I think you will continue to hear more about that mitigation as we go forward," she said in a media briefing. Presenting its third-quarter sales results, Stellantis on Tuesday confirmed its forecast for a double-digit margin on adjusted operating profit and positive industrial free cash flow this year. "We believe we continue to be in a very strong position globally and in the U.S.," Knight said. Consolidated shipments rose 11% in the quarter to 1.427 million vehicles, Stellantis said.

Persons: Gilles Guillaume Acquire, Natalie Knight, Stellantis, Knight, Giulio Piovaccari, Gilles Guillaume, Federico Maccioni, Jason Neely Organizations: REUTERS, Detroit Three, Detroit, Thomson Locations: Tremery, Metz, France, North America, United States, Canada, U.S

☆ Citroen targets low-cost Chinese EVs with electric C3 for 23,300 euros
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Gilles Guillaume | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] The new electric Citroen e-C3 SUV is unveiled during a presentation to the media in Meudon near Paris, France, October 17, 2023. It is the same size as the current C3 city car, but less rounded and slightly taller. "This is the most important launch for the Citroen brand in at least 10 years," Citroen General Manager Thierry Koskas told reporters. A European electric car at 23,000 euros? The brand plans a cheaper electric C3 at the beginning of 2025 – starting at 20,000 euros – with a reduced range of 200 km, Koskas said.

Persons: Abdul Saboor, Thierry Koskas, Citroen's Koskas, ”, Koskas, Citroen's, Gilles Guillaume, Nick Carey Organizations: Citroen, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Meudon, Paris, France, Europe, MEUDON, Slovakia, India, China

However since parliament opened on Oct. 1, its foreign affairs commission, which would debate the NATO bid, has received almost 60 international agreements to review - excluding Sweden's, official data shows. A second person familiar with U.S.-Turkish talks said a rough proposal - in which each side would take steps toward ratifying the NATO bid on the one side, and the F-16s purchase on the other - had been delayed. IN NO RUSHTurkey, NATO's second-biggest military, is still expected to ultimately endorse Sweden's bid and could rapidly move on it. Addressing the drone incident, which occurred near U.S. troops on Oct. 5, Erdogan said last week: "Isn't Turkey a NATO ally of the U.S.? Finnish membership was sealed in April, marking an historic expansion of the Western defence bloc, but Sweden's bid remains held up by Turkey and Hungary.

Persons: Tayyip Erdogan, Ulf Kristersson, Jens Stoltenberg, Yves Herman, Joe Biden, RUSH Turkey, NATO's, Sweden's, Erdogan, Yasar Guler, Humeyra Pamuk, Simon Johnson, Bernadette Baum Organizations: NATO, REUTERS, Rights, Washington, State Department, AK Party, U.S, U.S . State Department, RUSH, Kurdistan Workers Party, European Union, Turkish Defence, Swedish, U.S . Senate, White House, Lockheed Martin Corp, Palestinian, Hamas, aircraft, Thomson Locations: Swedish, Vilnius, Lithuania, Rights ANKARA, Turkey, Sweden, Ankara, United States, Syria, U.S, NATO, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Brussels, Stockholm, Helsinki, Iraq, Gaza, Riyadh

☆ Risk-taker’s market? Why it may be practical to take chips off the table
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Meredith Mutter | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Investor and personal finance author Ric Edelman believes it's a practical strategy to take chips off the table right now. He includes struggles in the real estate market, high interest rates, government shutdown risks and the Israel-Hamas war. "We're seeing increased interest in short-duration fixed income," said the firm's head of global product strategy and development. Framsted speculates the investors are making the move to short-duration funds in response to the volatility of today's market. "We're seeing interest among our client base who tend to be longer-term oriented in nature across the full spectrum.

Persons: Ric Edelman, it's, CNBC's, Edelman, there's, I've, I'm, You've, Holly Framsted, Framsted Organizations: Investor, . Treasury, The, Core, Capital Group Locations: Israel

☆ Investors sit out ether futures ETFs as spot bitcoin fund hangs in limbo
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Anna Gleason | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Investor appetite for ether futures exchange-traded funds has remained muted, despite a surge in new listings. Six new ether futures funds from Bitwise Asset Management, ProShares and VanEck launched on Oct. 2. "Frankly, bitcoin was doing fabulous at the time in 2021 and a lot of folks really didn't understand exactly what that fund was, being bitcoin futures. The six ether futures funds that debuted Oct. 2 attracted just $1.92 million collectively on their first day of trading, according to LSEG. "The absence of a spot bitcoin ETF isn't stopping people from buying crypto.

Persons: VanEck, Ric Edelman, Bob Pisani, Edelman, bitcoin, — Organizations: Bitwise Asset Management, Digital Assets, Financial Professionals, The Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC Locations: CNBC's

☆ Ether ETF flows fizzle: Is interest in crypto wavering?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailEther ETF flows fizzle: Is interest in crypto wavering? Ric Edelman, founder of the Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals and former head of Edelman Financial Engines, joins 'Halftime Report' to discuss the shock to the market fighting in the West bank has spurred, Ether ETF underperforming after launch, the ongoing debate over the fate of a spot bitcoin ETF.

Persons: Ric Edelman Organizations: Digital Assets, Financial Professionals, Edelman Locations: West

☆ El Salvador’s abortion laws are notoriously harsh. These women say they were convicted of homicide after having stillborn babies
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

CNN —A sign greets visitors arriving at a sun-filled two-story house in El Salvador’s capital. But within El Salvador, a largely Catholic and evangelical Christian country, some viewed the women’s accounts with skepticism and hostility. Again, the UN’s human rights office weighed in, calling El Salvador’s laws “draconian.”Two months later, 11 justices from El Salvador’s Supreme Court commuted Vásquez’s sentence, saying evidence in the case did not prove that she had taken any action to end her baby’s life. The Harvard professor has been studying these women’s cases and the impact of El Salvador’s abortion restrictions for years. This shows her after a visit in August 2018, six months after El Salvador's Supreme Court commuted her sentence.

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REUTERS/VarunVyas Hebbalalu/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMUMBAI, Sept 20 (Reuters) - India's Ola Electric plans to file regulatory papers for its up to $700 million IPO before the end of October as the e-scooter maker fast-tracks its listing move, three people with direct knowledge said. Backed by investors including Singapore's Temasek and Japan's SoftBank (9984.T), Ola Electric was valued at $5.4 billion in a recent fund raising. Ola Electric and Kotak did not respond to a request for comment while the other three banks declined to comment. Ola Electric is targeting IPO roadshows for early January or February, said one of the sources. Ola Electric, though, still makes losses.

Persons: Ola, VarunVyas, Japan's SoftBank, Ola Electric, Goldman Sachs, Bhavish Aggarwal, Tesla, Sriram, Aditi Shah, Aditya Kalra Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Singapore's Temasek, Japan's, Ola, ICICI, Bank of America, West, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Pochampalli, Tamil Nadu, India, Rights MUMBAI

☆ A key question as a true bitcoin ETF gets closer to reality: How much will it cost?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Many crypto and asset management industry professionals now expect the first so-called spot bitcoin funds to launch in 2024 . The number of firms jockeying for a spot bitcoin ETF has already broken into double digits, and it's still growing. The largest bitcoin futures ETF, the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) , has an expense ratio of 0.95%. Valkyrie has a Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BTF) that holds futures and has also applied to launch a spot product. He pointed to a Roundhill Ether Futures ETF filing with a proposed 0.19% fee as a more realistic target.

Persons: Franklin Templeton, Steven McClurg, we're, else's, McClurg, Ric Edelman, Bryan Armour, Armour Organizations: Securities, Exchange Commission, BlackRock, Valkyrie Investments, Digital Assets, Financial Professionals, North America, Morningstar, Fidelity Locations: BlackRock, Invesco

Currently, TikTok spokesperson Laura Perez said more than 200,000 sellers have registered for TikTok Shop. ByteDance, the Beijing company that owns TikTok, already runs a thriving social media marketplace on Douyin, its twin video app for the Chinese market. “No social app has really been able to master e-commerce in the U.S.,” said Jasmine Enberg, a social media analyst at Insider Intelligence. Critics have levied accusations that the social media giant could be a tool for China’s government to surveil Americans. The company said TikTok shop will offer a secure checkout process and that all of its U.S. user data is stored and managed by servers maintained by the software giant Oracle.

Persons: —, TikTok, Laura Perez, TikTok’s, Perez, hasn't, “, ”, Jasmine Enberg, “ TikTok, Enberg, OtterBox Organizations: TikTok, Meta, Intelligence, Insider Intelligence, Amazon, U.S, Oracle Locations: U.S, Beijing, Asia, China

☆ What Grayscale’s bitcoin ETF victory over the SEC means for the cryptocurrency and an exhausted market
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Bitcoin jumped 7% on investor hopes that the ruling will pave the way for approval of one or more spot bitcoin ETFs from BlackRock, Fidelity, Invesco and others. Yet the SEC's commitment to regulation by enforcement under Gensler, rather than laying out clear rules, has left companies struggling and hindered new bitcoin investors. If Tuesday's ruling does open the door to the first spot bitcoin ETF in the U.S., that could eventually push crypto prices higher. Owen Lau, an analyst at Oppenheimer, cautioned that Grayscale's court victory "doesn't necessarily mean the SEC will approve Grayscale's conversion, or that there will be a floodgate of spot bitcoin ETF approvals in the near term." Regardless, Tuesday's court decision "is not enough" to bust the market out of its summer stupor, Lau added.

Persons: Bitcoin, it's, Ric Edelman, Gary Gensler, Edelman, Owen Lau, Oppenheimer, Lau Organizations: SEC, ., Appeals, Securities and Exchange Commission, Fidelity, Digital Assets, Financial Professionals Locations: BlackRock, U.S

The suits allege that downed power lines operated by the company contributed to the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. The wildfire risk posed by aboveground power lines is well documented. Lives lost, billions in damagesThe Maui fires have killed at least 115 people with hundreds still missing. But Mitchell said insulating aboveground power lines with a protective covering is also an effective solution that is cheaper and can be rolled out more quickly. There is also technology coming to market that can de-energize power lines automatically when there's a problem, he said.

Persons: Mike Blake, Fitch, Berkshire Hathaway's, Paul Starita, They're, Singleton Schreiber, Alexandra von Meier, von Meier, Marshall, Michael Dougherty, Bob Frenzel, Xcel, Berkshire Hathaway, PacifiCorp, aboveground, Scott Aaronson, Aaronson, Joseph Mitchell, Mitchell Organizations: Reuters Electric, Hawaiian Electric, National Weather Service, Hawaii Electric, . Pacific Gas & Electric, PG, Xcel Energy, U.S . Forest Service, University of California, Moody's, Fitch, Electric, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, Xcel, Marshall Fire, Marshall, Boulder, Labor, Fire, American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, The Edison Electric Institute, California Public Utilities Commission Locations: Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, U.S, Maui County, Hurricane, California, Berkshire, Berkshire Hathaway's PacifiCorp, Oregon, Colorado, Berkeley, Minnesota, Boulder County, Paradise, Golden

Hawaiian Electric CEO Shelee Kimura received a cash bonus in 2022 based on her performance against 10 measures including profit and customer satisfaction. Wildfire risk mitigation was not on the list, according to the utility’s pay disclosures. Wildfire risk had been a concern for several years before the blaze ripped through Lahaina, a historic resort town in Maui. Idacorp declined to comment on its pay practices and how they relate to wildfire mitigation. “You don’t want a wildfire disaster to be the catalyst for a change in public policy,” said Glazer, who supports linking executive pay to wildfire mitigation.

Persons: Mike Blake, ”, Alison Silverstein, Shelee Kimura, Kimura, “, Michael Cerasoli, Michael Underhill, Brian Buckham, ” Buckham, Idacorp, Larry Glazer, Glazer, Tim McLaughlin, Tom Hals, Peter Henderson, Noeleen Walder, Rich Valdmanis, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Workers, REUTERS, Hawaiian Electric, U.S . Federal Energy Regulatory, Electric, Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, San Diego Gas &, Global Renewable Energy Income Fund, Reuters, Capital Innovations, SEC, Portland General Electric Co, Boston’s Mayflower Advisors, Thomson Locations: Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, U.S, California, Honolulu, Maui ., Idaho , Oregon, Washington, Idaho

☆ This Ugandan earns a bonus for each person he gets to sign up for Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning crypto project
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

The business-to-business software firm, which has a market cap of $11.5 billion, gave users the option of logging in with their World ID beginning in June. Social media app Discord also uses World ID for verification. But ultimately, the foundation envisions a future where a World ID could be used to facilitate nationwide votes, among other use cases involving banking and e-commerce. Ava Labs president John Wu tells CNBC that the self-custody feature of the Worldcoin ID is also critical. Despite his concerns, Mwangi ultimately chose to enroll in the project because he believed in the wider mission of the World ID.

Persons: Keneth Byarugaba, Byarugaba, Namureba Abel, Abel, Muvya Muthama, Muthama, Sam Altman, Peter Mwangi, I'm, Mwangi, They're, Worldcoin, John Wu, Wu, Ricardo Macieira, Annegret Hilse, hasn't, Byarugaba indoctrinates, it's, isn't, CNBC's Jordan Smith Organizations: Worldcoin, CNBC, cryptocurrency, Social, FBI, Reuters Locations: Uganda, Kampala, Nairobi, Kenya, web3, Chile, Europe, Berlin

☆ ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Everywhere. What Are They Doing to Us?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Kim Tingley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

What’s in your tap water?” (If the drinking water is contaminated, formula mixed with it will be, too.) “But they feel heard.”Among the groups most likely to be exposed to PFAS in their drinking water are those in low-income communities or who live near military or industrial sites. determined that two kinds of PFAS — PFOS and PFOA — are “likely to be carcinogenic to humans” and proposed a goal of removing them almost entirely from public drinking water. The problem of PFAS pollution goes beyond drinking water: The Faroe Islands demonstrate as much. One afternoon this spring, Grandjean, Weihe and I sat around the kitchen table in Weihe’s clinic.

Persons: ” Elizabeth Friedman, don’t, ”, Friedman, he’d, Irving Selikoff, Selikoff, Grandjean, Selikoff’s, ” Grandjean, “ Organizations: Children’s Mercy, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, DuPont, Chermours, Toxic, European Chemicals Agency, European Union, Sinai Locations: Children’s Mercy Kansas, Missouri, U.S, United States, Paterson , N.J

A man checks his mobile phone as he waits while recharging his Ola electric scooter at an electric vehicle charging station in New Delhi, India, February 12, 2022. REUTERS/Aditi Shah/File PhotoPOCHAMPALLI, TAMIL NADU, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Ola Electric, India's largest maker of electric scooters, launched its most affordable rides on Tuesday, in an effort to woo more buyers as the price of e-scooters moves closer to gasoline models. The cheapest gasoline scooter in India costs about 64,000 rupees. The Softbank Group-backed (9984.T) company on Tuesday said it has opened 100 more service centres across the country, taking their total tally to 500. ($1 = 83.3916 Indian rupees)Reporting by Varun Vyas in Pochampalli, Riddhima Talwani in New Delhi and Biplob Kumar Das in Bengaluru, editing by Aditi Shah and Sonia CheemaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Aditi Shah, Ola, Varun Vyas, Riddhima, Biplob Kumar Das, Sonia Cheema Organizations: REUTERS, Softbank, Thomson Locations: New Delhi, India, Pochampalli, Bengaluru

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