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When choosing a family car, safety tops the priority list, whether your little ones are still in car seats or have reached their teenage years. Reliability is just as crucial. A family car must be prepared to handle frosty morning school runs, hectic trips between after-school activities, your daily commute, and even long family road trips. That’s why we provide guides covering topics like the best overall family car, the top family hybrids, and the best vehicles for school runs. In nearly all these categories, reliability stands out as a key factor. Family cars are expected to do it all,…

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Image source: Getty Images The Stocks and Shares ISA limit of £20k a year emerged unscathed from the recent Budget. Indeed, it will remain at that level until 2030, providing the chance of tax-free passive income for years to come. But even smaller sums can bring home the bacon. Here, I’ll look at how much passive income could potentially be generated through putting £750 a month — or £9,000 a year — into an ISA for the next 10 years. Please note that tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in…

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Ascend Bit, a blockchain and Web3 solutions provider under the Charoen Pokphand Group, has partnered with Carbonmark, a global marketplace for environmental assets, to integrate carbon offset features into TrueMoney Wallet. This innovative solution enables 20 million monthly active users to effortlessly offset their carbon footprint and “go carbon neutral” by utilizing tokenized carbon credits, with the resulting offset certificates securely recorded on a public blockchain. DUBAI, AE / ACCESSWIRE / December 17, 2024 / “At Ascend Bit, we are committed to bringing tens of millions of Thais onto the public blockchain through simple account abstraction, enabling access to tokenized…

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Ascend Bit, a blockchain and Web3 solutions provider under the Charoen Pokphand Group, has partnered with Carbonmark, a global marketplace for environmental assets, to integrate carbon offset features into TrueMoney Wallet. This innovative solution enables 20 million monthly active users to effortlessly offset their carbon footprint and “go carbon neutral” by utilizing tokenized carbon credits, with the resulting offset certificates securely recorded on a public blockchain. DUBAI, Arab Emirates, December 17, 2024 (Newswire.com) – “At Ascend Bit, we are committed to bringing tens of millions of Thais onto the public blockchain through simple account abstraction, enabling access to tokenized real-world…

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(Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The S&P 500 index, which is a proxy for large-cap U.S. equities, has seen a record rally, fueled by the AI boom and GLP-1 momentum. Since bottoming on October 13, 2022 at an intra-day low of 3,491.58, the benchmark index has bounced back by 75% reaching an all-time high of 6,099.97 on December 6 this year. This torrid pace of growth has raised concerns about whether the S&P 500 is in a bubble. However, the protracted bull run shows no signs of letting up, debunking pessimistic projections…

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The announcement was made this week at an international mining conference held in Tianjin, China, where a delegate led by Alparslan Bayraktar, Turkey’s minister of energy and natural resources, met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Guanghua to complete the MOU signing. “Critical minerals, which are indispensable for high-tech products, have become important raw materials that shape the policies of countries. Investing in critical minerals and rare earth elements plays an important role in our energy transformation vision,” Bayraktar said during the conference. “In this context, we aim to establish an industrial facility that will purify 570,000 tonnes of rare earth…

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Owning a car is a significant investment, and certain brands have established a reputation for delivering vehicles that are reliable, durable, and long-lasting. However, regardless of how well-engineered a car is, poor maintenance habits can severely impact its longevity. Many of us unintentionally adopt practices that harm our vehicles over time. Identifying and eliminating these bad habits is crucial to ensure your car remains in optimal condition. Here are 10 common mistakes that can shorten your car’s lifespan, along with actionable solutions to break them. 10. Speeding Over Potholes and Road Bumps Driving over potholes and road bumps at high…

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A bomb killed a senior Russian general in charge of nuclear protection forces and another man in Moscow on Tuesday, the RT state media group said on Tuesday, citing an unidentified law enforcement source. Russian media said the that Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who is chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, had been killed on Ryazansky Prospekt. Russian news Telegram channels also reported that Kirillov had been killed but there was no official confirmation of the killing. TASS state news agency said two people were killed in an explosion on Moscow’s Ryazansky Prospekt. A criminal…

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Walmart’s (WMT) pullback on diversity, equity, and inclusion, commonly referred to as DEI, could ripple across the industry as other companies reassess their efforts amid conservative backlash. DEI became widely adopted in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, but the concept dates back further. Now, America’s largest employer — and Yahoo Finance’s 2024 Company of the Year — is reframing its focus to inclusion and belonging. In late November, Walmart confirmed to Yahoo Finance it will no longer use the term DEI or participate in the corporate equality rating system created by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). It plans…

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