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XRP price remained stable above the $2.10 zone. The price is moving higher and might aim for a fresh surge above the $2.30 resistance zone. XRP price is attempting a fresh increase above the $2.20 resistance zone. The price is now trading near $2.25 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There was a break above a connecting bearish trend line with resistance at $2.185 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair might start a decent increase if it clears the $2.30 resistance. XRP Price Eyes A Comeback XRP price started a fresh increase…

Laylabird | E+ | Getty ImagesA popular retirement strategy known as the 4% rule may need some recalibration for 2025 based on market conditions, according to new research.The 4% rule helps retirees determine how much money they can withdraw annually from their accounts and be relatively confident they won’t run out of money over a 30-year retirement period.According to the strategy, retirees tap 4% of their nest egg the first year. For future withdrawals, they adjust the previous year’s dollar figure upward for inflation.But that “safe” withdrawal rate declined to 3.7% in 2025, from 4% in 2024, due to long-term…

In this articleMSTRFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTMichael Saylor, chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy, speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami on April 7, 2022.Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of MicroStrategy were higher Monday after Nasdaq announced the bitcoin proxy will join the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 index.The stock was last higher by more than 3%.Nasdaq rebalances its Nasdaq-100 index every year. The companies flagged for inclusion are mostly based on the market cap rankings as of the final trading day of November. The stocks also need to meet a liquidity requirement and have a certain number of…

Haiti’s online media association said two reporters were killed and several others were wounded in a suspected gang attack on Tuesday on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital.Street gangs have taken over an estimated 85% of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and they forced the closure of the General Hospital early this year. Authorities had pledged to reopen the facility Tuesday but as journalists gathered to cover the event, suspected gang members opened fire in a vicious Christmas Eve attack.Robest Dimanche, a spokesman for the Online Media Collective, identified the dead journalists as Markenzy Nathoux and Jimmy Jean. Dimanche said an…

Starbucks Workers United said it had voted to authorize a strike ahead of the year’s last scheduled bargaining session. In a post on X, the union said 98 percent of its baristas voted to authorize a strike if necessary. “Our union is STRONG – and we’re READY,” the union said. The union noted in its statement that its partners have not decided when to go on strike, but the vote was finalized just as delegates returned to the table Tuesday for the last session of the calendar year. Starbucks and the union have spent hundreds of hours bargaining, and both…

Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term “squaw” from more than 30 geographic features and place names on California lands, according to an announcement Friday by the state Natural Resources Agency. The action stems from a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in 2022, and follows a similar move by the U.S. Department of the Interior, which said “the term has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial, and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women.”The California law, Assembly Bill 2022, banned use of the word in future location names and ordered the resources agency to…

(NEXSTAR) – An underwater exploration company has regretfully announced that an image they previously believed to show Amelia Earhart’s lost plane was actually just a big rock. “After 11 months the waiting has finally ended and unfortunately our target was not Amelia’s Electra 10E (just a natural rock formation),” the company, Deep Sea Vision, wrote on its Instagram account earlier this month. Earlier this year, the company had thought they may have solved the 90-year mystery into Earhart’s disappearance in late January, after capturing a sonar image of an underwater object that they estimated to be the same size and…

A Russian cargo ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria, leaving two crew members missing, Spain’s maritime rescue agency and the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.Fourteen of the Ursa Major’s crew were rescued uninjured from a lifeboat and transferred to Spain, the agency said. The Russian ministry said the ship started sinking following an explosion in the engine room.The vessel was owned by SK-Yug, a subsidiary of the Russian shipping and logistics company Oboronlogistika, which was established under Russia’s defense ministry and placed under U.S. and European Union sanctions for its ties to Russia’s military.Spanish authorities said…

The British folding bike brand, Brompton, is set to issue a recall on its latest G Line gravel bikes.In a document sent to Brompton retailers and seen by Cyclingnews, the brand says it has received a reported instance of a broken hinge spindle. Cyclingnews understands that Brompton will not issue a stop-ride notice, but that customers will be advised to bring their G Line bikes into their local dealer for a check, with affected bikes being offered a replacement hinge spindle free of charge.The document states that:”Tomorrow we will be implementing a corrective action for all G Line bikes, due to…

Here’s everything you need to know about the candidates and who came out on top to replace Senate Minority Leader McConnell after Wednesday’s closed-door election. Image Credit: Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump has quickly moved to appoint many loyal Republican supporters—some of whom are quite controversial—to key government positions. This aggressive approach began ahead of the three-way election on Wednesday for the next Senate GOP leader, with Trump stressing the importance of swift action and loyalty from the individual who assumes the role. Here’s what you need to know about who is replacing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and becoming a…