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Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022 near Gruenheide, Germany.Christian Marquardt | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in premarket trading Wednesday.Tesla, Twitter – The electric vehicle maker slid 1.5% after CEO Elon Musk reversed course on his Twitter purchase, proposing once again to take over the social media company for $54.20 per share. He had previously tried to back out of buying the company, but Twitter sued him to go through with the purchase. Twitter shares dipped slightly after rallying on the news Tuesday.…

The U.S. labor market showed strength in September, with private companies adding more jobs than expected, payroll services firm ADP reported Wednesday.Businesses added 208,000 for the month, better than the 200,000 Dow Jones estimate and ahead of the upwardly revised 185,000 in August.Those gains came even as goods-producing industries reported a loss of 29,000 positions, with manufacturing down 13,000 and natural resources and mining losing 16,000.However, a big jump in trade, transportation and utilities helped offset those losses, as the sector saw a jobs gain of 147,000.Professional and business services added 57,000, while education and health services picked up 38,000…

Almost 18.6 million people die each year from cardiovascular disease, including coronary artery disease, which causes heart attacks. Researchers from Michigan State University have found evidence that the hormone oxytocin helps stimulate the regeneration of lost heart muscle cells. Scientists hope this discovery may one day help people regain heart muscle cells lost during a heart attack. Heart disease is currently the leading cause of death worldwide — almost 18.6 million people globally died from cardiovascular disease in 2019. The most common type of heart disease is coronary artery disease, which occurs when plaque builds up inside the blood vessels…

An enclosed stadium environment offers little escape for victims seeking to flee from the choking and burning effects of tear gas, said Prof Westerbeek from the International Sport Business department at Victoria University, adding that investigations should centre on the role of authorities instead of movements of the crowds. “In a confined space, why do you decide to create that level of panic where you basically herd people into areas where there’s no way out?” he asked. “I think that will be pretty much the focus of the internal and localised investigation of the actions of police.” FIFA, the world’s…

When Jessica Grib of St. Louis was about 32 weeks pregnant with her second child, her blood pressure started rising. At the time, the then-30-year-old thought little of it.“I wasn’t really concerned,” Grib, now 36, told TODAY. “I didn’t think that anything was going to happen.”Her doctor prescribed her medication, but her blood pressure didn’t lower. Even bed rest did little to help. After delivering the baby, Grib went into cardiac arrest. She learned she had peripartum cardiomyopathy, a type of heart failure or weakness of the heart muscle that occurs at the end of pregnancy or within the first…

Gigi Hadid is on her way back from Paris, having walked for Chloé, Isabel Marant, Victoria Beckham, Givenchy and Stella McCartney at fashion week. Jetting home on October 3rd, she was seen navigating the airport in sweatpants from Les Tien, paired with a cardigan and a khaki jacket from her own brand, Guest In Residence, which she launched just last month. To ensure peak comfort, the super styled the outfit with Ugg’s stacked Tazz slippers, which have become a fashion month essential for Gigi.The super packed her Uggs for the spring/summer 2022 shows last year and was seen wearing them…

Mike Novogratz forecasts a bullish takeoff for Bitcoin (BTC) once the US Federal Reserve eases down on its aggressive rate hikes aimed at taming inflation. The current cycle has especially been tough for the firstborn crypto, as it suffers from both an unfavourable outlook, and the effects of growing correlation with traditional finance. As a consequence, Novogratz believes the asset will stage a comeback once the abysmal macro climate cools.Novogratz disclosed these opinions while speaking on a CNBC Squawk Box episode Tuesday. The 53-year-old CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners implied that Bitcoin lost its status as a potent hedge against inflation when Fed…

The Federal Reserve’s aggressive tightening policy has led the US dollar to appreciate to multi-decade highs, squashing currencies around the world. Now, a United Nations agency is warning that its actions, along with those of other central banks, risk pushing the global economy into recession. What’s happening: In a new report, the United Nations Conference on Trade Development (UNCTAD) said that tightening monetary policy, meant to fight inflation, could inflict worse damage globally than the financial crisis in 2008 and the Covid-19 shock in 2020. The agency estimated in its report that each percentage-point increase in the Fed’s push to…

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BlueCrest Capital, the investment firm co-founded by billionaire bond trader Michael Platt, has more than doubled its money this year after betting that inflation and rising interest rates would pummel debt markets.The secretive group, which was once one of the world’s biggest hedge funds before opting to convert into a family office in late 2015 to take more risk in markets, has so far this year made a return of 114 per cent, according to a person familiar with its returns.Such a gain ranks BlueCrest as one of the world’s top performing investment firms in what has been a volatile…