From NI to tax cuts – what the chancellor of the exchequer could announce at his first fiscal event

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Lithium Power International Ltd (ASX:LPI) has received a valuation uplift from Edison Investment Research to A$1.24/share from A$1.0/share, following the company’s A$25 million equity placement. Click here

Provaris Energy Ltd (ASX:PV1) has executed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Total Eren, a leading French-based renewable energy independent power producer, to further co-operation on the development of solutions to transport green hydrogen projects to Asia and Europe. Click here

Kingwest Resources Ltd (ASX:KWR) has delivered several high-grade gold intersections from recent diamond drilling, enhancing the large-scale gold potential at Sir Laurence prospect within the Goongarrie Gold Project in Western Australia. Click here

Australian Vanadium Ltd (ASX:AVL) (AVL) has intersected visual gold and elevated copper, nickel, palladium and possibly platinum in drilling at the Coates Nickel-Copper-PGE Project within the Coates Mafic Intrusive Complex near Wundowie, northeast of Perth in Western Australia. Click here

International Graphite Ltd (ASX:IG6) has successfully commissioned new pilot-scale micronising and spheroidising equipment at its Collie downstream processing facility in Western Australia, a key step in building its planned fully integrated mine-to-market graphite production stream. Click here

Magnis Energy Technologies Ltd (ASX:MNS, OTCQX:MNSEF) has made strong progress with key activities at the wholly owned Nachu Graphite Project in southeast Tanzania. Click here

Caspin Resources Ltd (ASX:CPN) is preparing for an aggressive multi-rig campaign at the Serradella prospect of its Yarawindah Brook Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group Elements (PGE) Project in Western Australia, after re-assaying of previous drilling results revealed an “exceptional high-grade rhodium intersection”. Click here

Suvo Strategic Minerals Ltd (ASX:SUV) has welcomed positive data from the first phase of its March 10 research agreement with Curtin University. Click here

Cooper Metals Ltd (ASX:CPM) has begun to build on a successful maiden drilling program with assays from 11 more holes – from a total of 27 reverse circulation (RC) holes – confirming strong copper-gold mineralisation at King Solomon prospect of the Mt Isa East Project in Queensland. Click here

Blue Star Helium Ltd (ASX:BNL, OTC:BSNLF) has had two Oil and Gas Development Plans (OGDP) approved for four helium development well locations at Galactica/Pegasus in Las Animas County of Colorado. Click here

Blackstone Minerals Ltd (ASX:BSX, OTCQX:BLSTF) welcomes confirmation in an independent Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of its vision for the lowest life cycle carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the Ta Khoa Project (TKP) in Vietnam. Click here

Future Metals NL (ASX:FME, AIM:FME) has secured approval – and a drilling contractor – for a program of works involving 3,000 metres of initial diamond drilling at the Panton Project in Western Australia, to begin next month once current ground exploration surveys are complete. Click here

Legend Mining Ltd (ASX:LEG) continues to make strong exploration progress at Rockford Project in Western Australia's Fraser Range, with the latest aircore drilling and innovative electromagnetic survey identifying new fertile nickel-copper intrusions and bedrock conductors. Click here

GTI Energy Ltd (ASX:GTR) has begun to zero in on uranium mineralisation at five prospects of the Great Divide Basin (GDB) Project in Wyoming, US, with the first target being a ‘roll front’ of economical mineralisation identified at Thor in-situ recovery (ISR) uranium prospect in drilling earlier this year. Click here

Kingston Resources Ltd (ASX:KSN) has notched up two successive months of record gold production from the Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) processing operation at Mineral Hill Mine in the Cobar Basin of western New South Wales. Click here

Sipa Resources Ltd (ASX:SRI) is preparing to drill-test lithium targets at the 100%-owned Skeleton Rocks Project in Western Australia’s Goldfields after securing all necessary approvals and a reverse circulation (RC) drill rig. Click here

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On Black Wednesday anniversary, sterling hits 37-year low against dollar and 17-month low against euro

Serbia plans to spend 3 billion euros ($2.99 billion) or 4.5% of its annual gross domestic product (GDP) on electricity, gas and fuel oil imports between October and March to meet rising costs of electricity and heating consumption, Energy Minister Zorana Mihajlovic told Reuters on Thursday. The country spent 1.65 billion euros on gas and electricity imports over the same period a year ago. Mihajlovic said that a major portion of the money will go to electricity imports which will cover up to a fifth of the country's needs.

Uber said Friday it was investigating a "cybersecurity incident," declining to comment on reports a young hacker had gained access to the ride-hailing company's computer network.

Some of the chancellor’s other proposals may represent a step back to the light-touch era that led to 2008-09 crash

Sitting on the side of a Jakarta road anxiously waiting for his phone to ping, driver Muhammad Ridwan says it is now barely worth hurtling through thick smog every day to ferry passengers.

OSLO (Reuters) -Softbank said on Friday it had agreed to sell its 15% stake in Norwegian e-learning group Kahoot to U.S. private equity group General Atlantic FT BV. Kahoot's share price surged 28% in early trade. General Atlantic in a separate statement confirmed the deal to buy 73.5 million Kahoot shares, but did not disclose the transaction price.

LISBON (Reuters) -Two European Central Bank policymakers gave diverging views about the size of the ECB's future rate hikes on Thursday, pointing to some disagreement over whether last week's jumbo increase should be repeated. The ECB raised rates by an unprecedented 75 basis points a week ago and President Christine Lagarde hinted at another two or three rises at the coming meetings to fight record-high inflation. But ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos and Portugal's central bank governor Mario Centeno appeared to differ on Thursday about the size of the next moves.

BERLIN (Reuters) -The head of Austrian oil and gas group OMV said on Thursday that the EU's planned windfall levy could have a huge impact and criticised basing the proposal on profits of the last three years, which were not normal times. "We will keep an eye on that, as it can already have a massive impact," Alfred Stern told journalists, adding that the specifics of the proposal have not yet been set out so it was difficult to estimate the exact impact. Under EU plans announced on Wednesday, excessive profits from energy companies will be skimmed off and redistributed to ease the burden on consumers.

Kanye West told Gap on Thursday he was unilaterally severing his partnership with the retail brand and had plans to open his own stores.

The Ethereum 'merge' has been hailed as a success by the blockchain's co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The major upgrade could now make the supply of ether "continuously reduce over time", which could then lead to a spike in the value of the cryptocurrency. What is the merge, and how will it impact your ether holdings?In today's The Crypto Mile Weekly update we hear from Sumit kishore, senior product manager at Consensys, who explained the reasons behind the long-awaited update and its impact on the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem. In the interview, Kishore outlined three key reasons for Ethereum's historic upgrade:1. Increase sustainability - cut Ethereum’s energy usage by 99.95%. 2. Enhance scalability - scale massively, by making the network ready for further upgrades.3. Ensure security - move Ethereum to a more sustainable crypto economic model.He also described how The Merge will make fundamental changes to the Ethereum network such as improving sustainability and security, setting it up for scalability, and offering an attractive real yield on staking.All these changes will make Ethereum more attractive to institutional investors.

LONDON (Reuters) -Shell said on Friday it was "unaffected" by the German government's decision to place the PCK Schwedt oil refinery under a trusteeship, effectively taking control away from Russian majority owner Rosneft. It is unclear who will step in to replace Rosneft as operator of the 233,000 barrel per day refinery, which Shell has sought to sell out of. "Shell remains unaffected by this order as a 37.5% shareholder in PCK Schwedt and will continue to comply with its contractual obligations in accordance with its own shares," Shell said in an emailed statement.

Unite leader deplores prospect of post-Brexit deregulation drive ‘when millions are struggling’

Pensioners have been forced to wait as long as six months for their state pension, with many left out because of the system’s “ludicrous complexity”.

The Bank said that the world economy was now in its steepest slowdown following a post-recession recovery since 1970.

Both volumes and values of customer spending dropped last month, new data show.

Falls against the dollar are prompted partly by concern about Liz Truss’s economic and energy policies

Finland will seek compensation of up to 8 billion euros ($7.97 billion) if Germany nationalises gas importer Uniper, a Finnish cabinet minister said on Friday. Uniper, which is majority owned by Finnish utility Fortum, said on Wednesday the German government might take a controlling stake in the company as it sought further aid on top of a package agreed with Berlin in July. "It is absolutely clear that Finland will not allow Germany to nationalise Uniper without compensation," Minister of European Affairs and Ownership Steering, Tytti Tuppurainen, told the Finnish parliament.

CHEP 2021 Achievements In 2021 we collaborated with nearly 300 clients and saved 87.3 million kilometers and 112,419 tonnes of CO2 emissions. WEYBRIDGE, United Kingdom, Sept. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CHEP has been transporting components throughout the global automotive supply chain since the 1960s, pioneering circularity before it became a buzzword. Clients can reduce their carbon footprint by offering a ‘share-and-reuse’ model that works with reusable, pooled plastic containers. Approved b

Businesses may struggle as consumers cut back spending amid high inflation and rising fuel costs, economists warn

Major players in the facial recognition market are Aware Inc, Ayonix Corporation, Cognitec Systems GmbH, FacePhi, NEC Corporation, Nuance, Idemia, Thales, Fujitsu, Gemalto NV, Onfido, TECH5 SA, NVISO SA (nViso), Neurotechnology, Techno Brain and id3 Technologies (id3).New York, Sept. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Facial Recognition Global Market Report 2022" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06319890/?utm_source=GNW The global facial recognition