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By Keesha Harewood Global News Posted October 25, 2022 5:11 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size A bus manufacturing company in Winnipeg says supply shortages are turning into financial losses. NFI Group vice-president of Strategy and Investor Relations Stephen King told 680 CJOB Tuesday morning a lack of specialty parts is making it harder to complete orders on time.“It’s impacting our ability to complete vehicles and to be fair to the suppliers, some of this is not so much their challenge, it’s their sub-supplier. They can’t get the parts to go into the component that we install…

The logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google outside the company’s office in Beijing, China, August 8, 2018.Thomas Peter | ReutersCheck out the companies making headlines after hours.Alphabet — The search engine parent dropped 5.8% after Alphabet missed third-quarter earnings expectations, and reported a decline in YouTube ad revenue. Alphabet earned $1.06 per share on revenue of $69.09 billion. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv were forecasting $1.25 earnings per share on revenue of $70.58 billion.Microsoft — Shares slipped 2.7% after Microsoft reported weaker-than-expected cloud revenue in its latest quarterly results, despite otherwise beating earnings and revenue forecasts.Texas Instruments — Shares declined 5.7% after…

An observational study found associations between methamphetamine, cocaine, opiates, and cannabis use and atrial fibrillation (AFib).Compared to non-users, the researchers’ analysis shows that the substances were individually associated with an increased risk of developing AFib after adjusting for cardiovascular risk factors.Cannabis use was linked to a 35% increase in the chances of developing AFib.Methamphetamine was associated with the greatest risk at an increase of 86%.According to the American Heart Association (AHA), more than 2.7 million Americans live with atrial fibrillation (AFib), a condition that causes irregular heartbeat or arrhythmia. AFib can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure, and other…

Trading volumes in crypto-backed investment funds have dwindled in recent weeks, and last week hit its lowest since October 2020, a new report from the crypto researcher CoinShares shows.According to the report, the volume in crypto investment products last week fell to as low as $758m, far below the $7bn a week average seen at this time last year.Moreover, overall outflows from crypto investment products of $5m showed that investor interest in crypto still remains at low levels, with “apathy” being the general sentiment in the market, the report said.In terms of specific digital assets, bitcoin (BTC) funds last week…

Disclaimer: The Industry Talk section features insights by crypto industry players and is not a part of the editorial content of Cryptonews.com.Calvaria: Duels of Eternity is a play-to-earn crypto game in which players build strategic decks of NFT cards and battle against fellow players. The game’s economy is driven by the Calvaria token, RIA, which is used to buy Calvaria NFT cards as well as for staking and governance within the Calvaria DAO.In this guide, we’ll cover everything investors need to know about Calvaria and explain how to buy Calvaria token (RIA) during the project’s ongoing presale.Calvaria: Key FactsHere’s a…

More than 29,000 migrants have died trying to reach Europe since 2014, with 5,000 deaths in the last two years, the International Organization for Migration said in a report Tuesday.The U.N. agency’s Missing Migrants Project spoke of “increasing numbers of deaths seen on routes across the Mediterranean, on land borders to Europe and within the continent.”According to its report, the deadliest migration route continues to be the Central Mediterranean, where 2,836 people have died since January 2021 attempting to reach Italy or Malta, mainly from Libya and Tunisia.SAILBOAT OFF FLORIDA COAST INTERCEPTED WITH MORE THAN 150 MIGRANTS ON BOARDThe latest…

CNN  —  Police in Norway arrested an academic working at the University of Tromsø in the Arctic Circle on Monday, on suspicion of secretly spying for Russia, according to Norwegian public broadcaster NRK. Norway’s police told NRK that the man, a researcher at the university, claims to be a Brazilian citizen but they suspect he could be using a false identity and could actually be a Russian citizen. “We have asked that a Brazilian researcher at the University of Tromsø be expelled from Norway as we believe he represents a threat to fundamental national interests,” said Hedvig Moe, Assistant Head,…

Solid demand for Microsoft’s cloud computing services helped the US software company withstand the effects of a weakening economy and a slump in the PC market in the third quarter, according to figures released Tuesday.The resilient performance lifted Microsoft’s revenue 11 per cent in the three months to the end of September, to $50.1bn, slightly ahead of Wall Street expectations. The company’s shares slipped more than 2 per cent on the news, despite the fact that its earnings per share of $2.35 were 4 cents ahead of expectations. Revenue from Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform grew 42 per cent in…

Peace talks to end Ethiopia’s devastating Tigray conflict have begun in South Africa, a South African government spokesman said Tuesday. It is the highest-level effort yet to end two years of fighting that has killed perhaps hundreds of thousands of people.The spokesman for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Vincent Magwenya, said the African Union-led talks that started Tuesday are expected to continue until Sunday. Delegations from the Ethiopian government and Tigray authorities arrived in South Africa this week. There was no immediate comment from either side.”Such talks are in line with South Africa’s foreign policy objectives of a secure and…

CNN  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin called his government to “speed up” decision-making and manufacturing of military equipment as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine goes into its ninth month. “Now, we are also faced with the need to speed up resolution of the issues related to the provision of a special military operation and related to the fight against those restrictions in the economic sphere that we have encountered,” Putin said Tuesday, speaking to the first meeting of the newly formed Coordination Council. Putin on October 20 created the Coordination Council headed by the country’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to meet…