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It’s Either Sullivan or Make Big Moves, Something Has to GiveAS we approach the end of another year, many of us are left reflecting on the goals we set and the progress we've made. The reality, however, is that life rarely unfolds according to our plans, especially when it comes to personal finance. Perhaps you started the year with ambitious goals — to save more, invest in your future or finally pay off those lingering debts. Yet, as 2024 draws to a close, you might be feeling a mix of pride in what you've achieved and disappointment in what remains unfinished. But here's the truth: there's still time to turn things around, and more importantly, there's time to end the year feeling strong, proud and financially secure. Register to read this story and more for free . Signing up for an account helps us improve your browsing experience. OR See our subscription options.

John Parker Romo made a 29-yard field goal to lift the Minnesota Vikings to a 30-27 overtime win against the host Chicago Bears on Sunday afternoon. Romo buried the game-winning kick in his third career game for Minnesota (9-2), which won its fourth game in a row. The score capped a 10-play, 68-yard drive for the Vikings after the Bears went three-and-out on the first overtime possession. Sam Darnold completed 22 of 34 passes for 330 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Vikings. Wideout Jordan Addison finished with eight catches for a career-high 162 yards and a touchdown. The overtime defeat spoiled an impressive performance from rookie quarterback Caleb Williams, who completed 32 of 47 passes for 340 yards and two touchdowns for Chicago (4-7). D.J. Moore had seven catches for 106 yards and a touchdown, and Keenan Allen finished with nine catches for 86 yards and a score. Chicago erased an 11-point deficit in the final 22 seconds of regulation to send the game to overtime. Romo had put Minnesota on top 27-16 when he made a 26-yard field goal with 1:56 remaining in the fourth quarter. Williams trimmed the Bears' deficit to 27-24 with 22 seconds to go. He rolled right and found Allen wide open in the end zone for a 1-yard touchdown, and moments later he fired a strike to Moore for a two-point conversion. The Bears recovered an onside kick on the next play to regain possession at their 43-yard line with 21 seconds left. Cairo Santos' onside kick bounced off the foot of Vikings tight end Johnny Mundt, and Tarvarius Moore recovered it. D.J. Moore put the Bears in field-goal position with a 27-yard reception across the middle of the field, and Santos made a 48-yarder as time expired to even the score at 27-all. Minnesota led 24-10 after three quarters. Romo made a 40-yard field goal early in the third quarter, and Aaron Jones punched in a 2-yard run with 1:22 left in the period to put the Vikings on top by two touchdowns. Addison and Jalen Nailor each had receiving touchdowns in the first half for Minnesota. Roschon Johnson scored on a 1-yard run for the Bears' only touchdown of the first half. Chicago trailed 14-10 at the break. --Field Level Media

As many as two lakh Income Tax Returns (ITRs) containing details of foreign assets and income have been filed during the current assessment year till now, according to the tax department which urged Indian residents for tax purposes to ensure they file the right form and revise their returns if they submitted the wrong form. The shares obtained and income earned by resident tax Indians from their employers through employee stock options should also be disclosed to the Income-Tax Department by filling foreign assets and foreign source income schedule provided in the relevant ITR , a senior CBDT officer explained. The tax department and its administrative authority Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) recently launched a campaign to ensure that the select category of taxpayers (Indian residents for tax purposes) report their foreign assets (FA) and foreign source income (FSI) during the 2024-25 assessment year by the deadline of December 31. The department conducted a 'Samvaad' online interaction session on the subject of 'property disclosure of foreign assets and income by taxpayers' where the Commissioner (investigation) in the CBDT Shashi Bhushan Shukla explained various provisions of the subject and relevant linked provisions of the anti-black money Act of 2015. Shukla stated that taxpayers (categorised as tax residents of India in the previous year) should choose the correct ITR to furnish these details to the I-T department. Those who possess such assets or income but have filed either ITR-1 or ITR-4 should file a revised or belated return by December 31 to escape penalty and prosecution prescribed under the anti-black money law, he said. 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I would request those taxpayers who are supposed to declare their foreign assets or income to file a revised return in the relevant ITR and comply with the rules and law," the officer said. He also said that those taxpayers who got shares and earned dividend (interest) income from shares allotted to them via the employee stock option by their overseas employer are also required to report such information to the Indian tax authorities. If there is a tax payable, then they should pay that tax too, the officer said. He said holding an asset abroad is reportable in the ITR even if no income is earned by the said taxpayer through such an asset. Such an asset is also reportable to the taxman irrespective of the time of its purchase, the officer said. If the taxpayer has already paid tax in a foreign jurisdiction (by way of withholding tax) on such assets or income then they should file the 'tax relief' schedule in the ITR and claim relief from Indian tax authorities and save themselves from being taxed doubly for the same income, Shukla explained. India has signed the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAAs) for the said purpose with various countries. Apart from these, he said, agreements and mutual exchange treaties like CRS (common reporting standard) with 123 countries and FATCA (foreign account tax compliance) with the US have been signed through which Indian tax authorities annually get information about the foreign assets and income of Indians based abroad. "As part of the current campaign on this subject, we are sending emails and SMSes to such taxpayers whose information has been received from foreign jurisdictions and they have income beyond a threshold or they have undertaken high-value transactions," he said. The officer said such campaigns have led to a steady rise in reporting of foreign assets by taxpayers with about two lakh filings being done during the 2024-25 AY till now, 1.6 lakh during 2023-24 AY, 75,000 ITRs filed during 2022-23 AY amd 60,000 during the AY 2021-22. Speaking about the "so-called" alleged tax haven jurisdictions like the British Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, Malta, Jersey, Luxembourg, etc., the officer said India was also getting information on the assets held by Indians in such nations via the CRS agreement. He said the procedure to fill the FA and FSI columns in ITRs is also explained on the department's e-filing portal. A foreign asset includes bank accounts, cash value insurance contract or annuity contract, financial interest in any entity or business, immovable property, custodial account, equity and debt interest, trusts in which a person is a trustee, beneficiary of settlor, accounts with singing authority, any capital asset etc., held abroad. 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The emperor penguin who swam from Antarctica to Australia has been released to see after he ended up at the shore of a popular tourist beach. The adult male penguin was discovered at the Ocean Beach sand dunes on November 1 in the town of Denmark, southwest Australia over 3,500 kilometres north of the frozen and cold waters of Antarctica, the Western Australia state government said. The bird was released into the Southern Ocean from a Parks and Wildlife Service boat on Wednesday after it travelled for several hours from the city of Albany, according to the New York Post . Registered wildlife caregiver Carol Biddulph had cared for the penguin and named him Gus, short for the first Roman emperor Augustus. “I really didn’t know whether he was going to make it to begin with because he was so undernourished,” Biddulph said in a video recorded before the bird’s release. “I’ll miss Gus. It’s been an incredible few weeks, something I wouldn’t have missed,” she added. “He absolutely loves his big mirror and I think that has been crucial in his well-being. They’re social birds and he stands next to the mirror most of the time,” she said. Gus also gained weight in her care. When he was found, he weighed 21.3 kilogrammes (47 pounds) and at the time of his release, he weighed 24.7 kilogrammes (54 pounds). Interestingly, emperor penguins are known to swim and cover up to 1,6000 kilometres (1,000 miles) on foraging journeys that last up to a month, the government added.

NEW YORK—What a wonderful year 2024 has been for investors. US stocks ripped higher and carried the S&P 500 to records as the economy kept growing and the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates. The year featured many familiar winners, such as Big Tech, which got even bigger as their stock prices kept growing. But it wasn’t just Apple, Nvidia and the like. Bitcoin, gold and other investments also drove higher. Here’s a look at some of the numbers that defined the year. All are as of December 20. 1998 Remember when President Bill Clinton got impeached or when baseball’s Mark McGwire hit his 70th home run against the Montreal Expos? That was the last time the US stock market closed out a second straight year with a leap of at least 20 percent, something the S&P 500 is on track to do again this year. The index has climbed 24.3 percent so far this year, not including dividends, following last year’s spurt of 24.2 percent. 57 The number of all-time highs the S&P 500 has set so far this year. The first came early, on January 19, when the index capped a two-year comeback from the swoon caused by high inflation and worries that high interest rates instituted by the Federal Reserve to combat it would create a recession. But the index was methodical through the rest of the year, setting a record in every month outside of April and August, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. The latest came on Decmber 6. 3 The number of times the Federal Reserve has cut its main interest rate this year from a two-decade high, offering some relief to the economy. Expectations for those cuts, along with hopes for more in 2025, were a big reason the US stock market has been so successful this year. The 1 percentage point of cuts, though, is still short of the 1.5 percentage points that many traders were forecasting for 2024 at the start of the year. The Fed disappointed investors in December when it said it may cut rates just two more times in 2025, fewer than it had earlier expected. 1,508 That’s how many points the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by the day after Election Day, as investors made bets on what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the economy and the world. The more widely followed S&P 500 soared 2.5% for its best day in nearly two years. Aside from bitcoin, stocks of banks and smaller winners were also perceived to be big winners. The bump has since diminished amid worries that Trump’s policies could also send inflation higher. $100,000 The level that bitcoin topped to set a record above $108,000 this past month. It’s been climbing as interest rates come down, and it got a particularly big boost following Trump’s election. He’s turned around and become a fan of crypto, and he’s named a former regulator who’s seen as friendly to digital currencies as the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, replacing someone who critics said was overly aggressive in his oversight. Bitcoin was below $17,000 just two years ago following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. 26.7% Gold’s rise for the year, as it also hit records and had as strong a run as US stocks. Wars around the world have helped drive demand for investments seen as safe, such as gold. It’s also benefited from the Fed’s cut to interest rates. When bonds are paying less in interest, they pull away fewer potential buyers from gold, which pays investors nothing. $420 It’s a favorite number of Elon Musk, and it’s also a threshold that Tesla’s stock price passed in December as it set a record. The number has a long history among marijuana devotees, and Musk famously said in 2018 that he had secured funding to take Tesla private at $420 per share. Tesla soared this year, up from less than $250 at the start, in part because of expectations that Musk’s close relationship with Trump could benefit the company. $91.2 billion That’s how much revenue Nvidia made in the nine months through October 27, showing how the artificial-intelligence frenzy is creating mountains of cash. Nvidia’s chips are driving much of the move into AI, and its revenue through the last nine months catapulted from less than $39 billion the year before. Such growth has boosted Nvidia’s worth to more than $3 trillion in total. 74% GameStop’s gain on May 13 after Keith Gill, better known as “Roaring Kitty,” appeared online for the first time in three years to support the video game retailer’s stock, which he helped rocket to unimaginable heights during the “meme stock craze” in 2021. Several other meme stocks also jumped following his post in May on the social platform X, including AMC Entertainment. Gill later disclosed a sizeable stake in the online pet products retailer Chewy, but he sold all of his holdings by late October. 1.6%, 3.0% and 3.1% That’s how much the US economy grew, at annualized seasonally adjusted rates, in each of the three first quarters of this year. Such growth blew past what many pessimists were expecting when inflation was topping 9% in the summer of 2022. The fear was that the medicine prescribed by the Fed to beat high inflation—high interest rates—would create a recession. Households at the lower end of the income spectrum in particular are feeling pain now, as they contend with still-high prices. But the overall economy has remained remarkably resilient. 20.1% This is the vacancy rate for US office buildings—an all-time high—through the first three quarters of 2024, according to data from Moody’s. The fact the rate held steady for most of the year was something of a win for office building owners, given that it had marched up steadily from 16.8% in the fourth quarter of 2019. Demand for office space weakened as the pandemic led to the popularization of remote work. 3.73 million That’s the total number of previously occupied homes sold nationally through the first 11 months of 2024. Sales would have to surge 20% year-over-year in December for 2024’s home sales to match the 4.09 million existing homes sold in 2023, a nearly 30-year low. The US housing market has been in a sales slump dating back to 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. A shortage of homes for sale and elevated mortgage rates have discouraged many would-be homebuyers.What happens when a president dies?

Liverpool extended their lead at the top of the Premier League table to eight points after a 3-2 win at Southampton. Arne Slot's men had the opportunity to pull further clear of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City and took full advantage despite the home side putting up an almighty fight. Dominik Szoboszlai handed the league leaders the advantage with a left-footed effort from the edge of the penalty area after some poor play by Saints goalkeeper Alex McCarthy. The lead didn't last long as Virgil van Dijk was dispossessed in the middle of the park and Andy Robertson was judged to have fouled Tyler Dibbling inside the 18-yard box. Darwin Nunez must step up for Liverpool in the absence of Diogo Jota. Despite replays appearing to show the contact came outside the area , the decision stood, and Adam Armstrong levelled proceedings. The hosts were in dreamland when Matheus Fernandez picked out the bottom corner to give the Saints the lead. However, Mohamed Salah was on hand - as he always is - to rescue Liverpool with a clever finish and a penalty of his own. One man who never looked likely to find the net in Liverpool's second-half pursuit was Darwin Nunez . The Uruguayan played 90 minutes - only being withdrawn at the start of stoppage time - but the 25-year-old struggled to threaten the Southampton goal, which isn't something that will go unnoticed. Darwin Nunez vs Southampton in Numbers The biggest indicator of how quiet Nunez had been in the opening 45 minutes came when some fans first realised he was on the pitch when he went down inside the box under minimal contact moments after Southampton's equaliser. Until that point, he had been a passenger. Arne Slot looks to play a more controlled style than Jurgen Klopp previously employed at Anfield, but it looks to be taking away from the chaotic nature of Nunez's game. From being a player who was always heavily involved - for better or for worse - the Uruguay international now often looks lost on the pitch. Erling Haaland, Darwin Nunez and Alexander Isak all feature as the 15 best strikers in the Premier League right now are ranked. He only had 25 touches in the game, with two of those being shots. To his credit, Nunez did play one key pass and was inches away from a vital assist after sliding the ball across the face of goal for Luis Diaz . However, his overall play in possession wasn't too strong, as he completed 10 out of his 15 attempted passes. Fans had already been vocal on social media about his lacklustre display during the second-half, with one posting: "This is dire from Nunez. Get Diaz on asap." Nunez was floundering in the centre-forward role, also failing to complete a single dribble or win an aerial duel against the opposing defenders. Liverpool Must Upgrade While Nunez is the club's record transfer and takes home a handsome £140,000 each week , there have been constant doubts surrounding his ability to reach an elite level ever since his arrival in 2022. Klopp fought hard to bring him in from Benfica, but the striker has often been profligate in front of goal and an inconsistent performer. Jurgen Klopp used his growing power at Liverpool to make a signing that many in the club were uncertain about - it's not quite worked out. Slot initially appeared to favour Diogo Jota as his central attacking player at the beginning of the season, but the Portuguese forward's injury issues have once again reared their head. His absence has left only Nunez as an out-and-out centre-forward at Sot's disposal - with Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz capable of filling in when needed. This is likely to be one of several areas the Dutchman has highlighted for potential improvement in coming transfer windows. It's hard to picture a world in which the Reds make a big-money striker signing in January, but it could definitely be on the cards for the summer window. Not knowing what Nunez will do next, and not being able to rely on Jota's availability could be a source of frustration for Slot if not addressed. Salah, Diaz and Gakpo have been left with the majority of the goalscoring burden from wide areas this season, as Nunez and Jota only have four Premier League goals between them this campaign. Who Liverpool Could Target One man who hasn't been able to stop putting the ball in the back of the net is Sporting CP's impressive talisman, Viktor Gyokeres . The Swede has plundered 24 goals in 19 appearances for his club this term, including a hat-trick against Pep Guardiola's Manchester City. He's likely to be looked at by any top club in the market for an elite marksman. Alternatively, the Reds have been linked with a move for Eintracht Frankfurt forward Omar Marmoush . International teammates with Mohamed Salah for Egypt, the deal could make a lot of sense for a versatile attacker who has exploded into form this campaign. Statistics courtesy of Sofascore and Transfermarkt . Correct as of 24-11-24.A 69-year-old Lithuanian man was forced to undergo an emergency leg amputation during a 20-hour rescue operation in the Tasmanian wilderness. The man, who remains in critical condition, arrived at Tasmania’s Royal Hobart hospital on Sunday. He had been participating in a multi-day rafting trip with a group of tourists on the Franklin River when he slipped on a rock, becoming partially submerged and trapped in a crevice where he remained for nearly 20 hours. 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TikTok is looking to Elon Musk for insight into the controversial app’s future ahead of Donald Trump ’s coming administration. Musk, who is one of the president-elect’s closest confidants, also owns rival platform X. According to the Wall Street Journal , Shou Chew, chief executive of the popular video sharing app, began reaching out to Musk in recent weeks. He and and executives at TikTok’s parent company, Chinese tech giant ByteDance, see the Tesla CEO as a potential point of contact in the White House amid TikTok’s impending ban in the United States due to national security concerns. While sources familiar with the conversations say Chew has not explicitly asked Musk how to keep TikTok operating in the U.S., he has engaged with the billionaire on topics like Trump’s potential tech policy. ByteDance executives are reportedly cautiously optimistic about the conversations. 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Yet another stowaway managed to board a major airline’s plane – renewing serious questions and concerns about airport safety during the busiest travel season of the year. This time, a stowaway tried to hitch a ride on Delta Air Lines Flight 487 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Christmas Eve. The unticketed passenger was discovered while the plane was still taxiing out for takeoff to Honolulu, Delta Air Lines told CNN. The Transportation Security Administration and the Port of Seattle confirmed the incident to CNN. The incident came less than a month after another stowaway boarded a Delta airplane Thanksgiving week. That unticketed passenger made it all the way from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Paris . Delta Air Lines planes are seen parked at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on June 19, 2024, in Seattle, Washington. And on Christmas Eve, of a United Airlines plane shortly after it traveled from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and landed in Maui. Hiding in a plane’s wheel well is the most common method used by , the Federal Aviation Administration said. Stowaways often get crushed when the landing gear retracts, and oxygen levels plummet as a plane reaches higher altitudes. In the Seattle incident, the stowaway went through a TSA security checkpoint the evening before the flight but wasn’t holding a boarding pass, an airport spokesperson told CNN. The next day, the person “gained access to the loading bridge without a scanned ticket at the gate,” airport media relations manager Perry Cooper said. Once the person was discovered, the Airbus A321neo returned to the gate to remove the unticketed passenger, Delta said. Port of Seattle police officers were dispatched to gate B1 at the airport around 1:05 p.m. for “a report of a suspicious circumstance” on the Delta flight. The person “ran out” of the aircraft before officers arrived, Cooper told CNN Friday. “The aircraft returned to the terminal and the subject departed the aircraft,” the Port of Seattle said. “With the help of video surveillance, POSPD were able to locate the subject in a terminal restroom. The subject was arrested for criminal trespass.” The unticketed passenger didn’t have any prohibited items, the TSA told CNN. “The aircraft was swept by K9 as well as all areas in the terminal accessed by the subject,” the Port of Seattle said. “The aircraft was deplaned and all passengers were escorted by TSA to return to the security checkpoint for rescreening.” CNN has reached out to the Port of Seattle for additional comment. Delta said the flight was delayed by two hours and 15 minutes. After the rescreening, it continued to Honolulu at 3 p.m. “As there are no matters more important than safety and security, Delta people followed procedures to have an unticketed passenger removed from the flight and then apprehended,” the Atlanta-based airline said in a statement. “We apologize to our customers for the delay in their travels and thank them for their patience and cooperation.” TSA said it “takes any incidents that occur at any of our checkpoints nationwide seriously. TSA will independently review the circumstances of this incident at our travel document checker station at Seattle/Tacoma International.” How the person got through airport security is a question many want answered. There are a number of factors at play, according to former commercial airline pilot and aviation analyst, John Nance. “There are multiple causes that come into this, and they probably involve not only a bit of lackadaisical inattention,” Nance told . “It may be training, it may be compliance, but it’s probably all of that.” It’s “embarrassing” for this situation to happen twice to the same airline and TSA, according to former Department of Homeland Security official Keith Jeffries, who was federal security director when he left the DHS in 2022. In his 20 years working with DHS and the TSA, Jeffries said he’s seen these situations multiple times. “It has happened before. It will happen again until they continue to strengthen that vulnerability,” Jeffries said. “The fact that it happened to the same airline, of course, couldn’t be more embarrassing, especially back-to-back, and during the holiday season, when there’s an extra alertness associated with the large holiday season,” Jeffries added. During the holidays, Jeffries explained, there’s typically more staffing at the airports being “extra vigilant.” TSA, airlines and airports have even more people present to ensure things like this don’t fall through the cracks, making these cases “even more concerning,” he said. If there is a “silver lining,” Jeffries said, it’s that Delta did catch the stowaway during the taxi, and they didn’t make it to Hawaii. The stowaway also didn’t have prohibited items when scanned through TSA, which is another plus, he said. “Everybody’s going to have to work together; TSA and the airlines on how they can strengthen both of those vulnerabilities, and in some cases, even work with the airport,” he said. Congress will likely scrutinize these incidents, Nance added. “But there will be no one paying more attention than the airlines themselves,” he said. Elise Mertens, of Belgium, serves against Naomi Osaka, of Japan, at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, on March 11, 2024, in Indian Wells, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Fans interfere with a foul ball caught by Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts during the first inning in Game 4 of the baseball World Series against the New York Yankees, on Oct. 29, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) An adult periodical cicada sheds its nymphal skin on May 11, 2024, in Cincinnati. 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He had 21 days to make that decision. Once parliament is dissolved, the election must be held within 60 days. Leaders of several major parties agreed earlier on the election date of February 23, seven months earlier than originally planned. Steinmeier warned about outside interference in the poll, saying it is “a danger to democracy, whether it is covert, as was evidently the case recently in the Romanian elections, or open and blatant, as is currently being practiced particularly intensively on platform X.” A top Romanian court annulled the first round of the country's presidential election, days after allegations emerged that Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round. The campaign is already well underway. Polls show Scholz's party trailing the conservative opposition Union bloc led by Friedrich Merz. Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck of the environmentalist Greens, the remaining partner in Scholz's government, is also bidding for the top job — though his party is further back. If recent polls hold up, the likely next government would be led by Merz as chancellor in coalition with at least one other party. Key issues include immigration, how to get the sluggish economy going, and how best to aid Ukraine in its struggle against Russia. The populist, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which is polling strongly, has nominated Alice Weidel as its candidate for chancellor but has no chance of taking the job because other parties refuse to work with it. Germany's electoral system traditionally produces coalitions, and polls show no party anywhere near an absolute majority on its own. The election is expected to be followed by weeks of negotiations to form a new government. It's only the fourth time that the Bundestag has been dissolved ahead of schedule under Germany's post-World War II constitution. It happened under Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1972, Helmut Kohl in 1982 and Gerhard Schroeder in 2005. Schroeder used the confidence vote to engineer an early election narrowly won by centre-right challenger Angela Merkel. (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel )

Angela Merkel has said she was “tormented” over the result of the Brexit referendum and viewed it as a “humiliation, a disgrace” for the EU that Britain was leaving. In her autobiography, Freedom, due to be published on Tuesday, the former German chancellor says she was dismayed by the notion that she might have done more to help the then British prime minister, David Cameron, who was keen for the UK to stay in the EU, but that ultimately, she concluded, he only had himself to blame. In extracts from the book, Merkel, who left office three years ago, said looking back she recognised that Brexit was on the cards once Cameron proposed in 2005 that Conservative party MEPs should leave the European People’s party, which they subsequently did, over the parliamentary alliance’s backing of the in 2009. The treaty introduced significant changes to the EU that anti-European critics considered undemocratic. In her 700-page memoir, about five pages are dedicated to Brexit and to her role in the pre-referendum negotiations with Cameron in an attempt to help him keep Britain inside the bloc. She also writes about the subsequent exit deal drawn out over several years once Britain had decided to leave, and refers to how deflated she felt over the result. “To me, the result felt like a humiliation, a disgrace for us, the other members of the European Union – the United Kingdom was leaving us in the lurch. This changed the European Union in the view of the world; we were weakened.” Merkel writes about how she had reached out to Cameron as he struggled to try to secure changes over freedom of movement and trade that might have won over Eurosceptics and allowed him to keep the UK in a reformed EU. She says she “tried wherever possible to help David Cameron”, despite risking the ire of other EU leaders who had distanced themselves from him. Referring to various stages in her attempts to help him and ensure he was not isolated, most crucially at a summit of EU leaders in February 2016 during which an agreement was expected to be reached over Britain’s renegotiation demands to stay in the EU, she says: “My support of him rendered me an outsider with my other colleagues ... The impact of the euro crisis was still lingering, and I was also being repeatedly accused of stinginess. “And yet, during the summit, I steadfastly remained by David Cameron’s side for an entire evening. In this way I was able to prevent his complete isolation in the council and eventually move the others to back down. I did this because I knew from various discussions with Cameron that where domestic policy was concerned, he had no room for manoeuvre whatsoever.” But she writes that there came a point when she could no longer help him. The UK she says, had not helped itself by making the mistake of not introducing restrictions on eastern European workers once 10 new countries joined the bloc in May 2004, the then Labour government having grossly underestimated the number of people who would arrive. This gave Eurosceptics the chance to put freedom of movement in a negative light. By contrast, France and Germany introduced a gradual phase-in of eastern Europeans’ rights to work, not giving them full access to their labour markets until 2011. Merkel says she thought Cameron’s pledge in 2005 for the Conservatives to leave the EPP was the initial nail in the coffin of any attempts to keep Britain in the EU. “He therefore, from the very beginning, put himself in the hands of those who were sceptical about the European Union, and was never able to escape this dependency,” she writes. Brexit, she concludes, “demonstrated in textbook fashion the consequences that can arise when there’s a miscalculation from the very start”. Subsequently she was pained by the idea that she might have been able to have done more to keep the UK in the fold, she says. “After the referendum, I was tormented by whether I should have made even more concessions toward the UK to make it possible for them to remain in the community. I came to the conclusion that, in the face of the political developments taking place at the time within the country, there wouldn’t have been any reasonable way of my preventing the UK’s path out of the European Union as an outsider. Even with the best political will, mistakes of the past could not be undone.”Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. The 39th president of the United States was a Georgia peanut farmer who sought to restore trust in government when he assumed the presidency in 1977 and then built a reputation for tireless work as a humanitarian. He earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He died Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in Plains, Georgia. At age 52, Carter was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 1977, after defeating President Gerald R. Ford in the 1976 general election. Carter left office on Jan. 20, 1981, following his 1980 general election loss to Ronald Reagan. Here's the latest: The longest-lived American president died Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives. “Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” The Carter Center said in posting about his death on the social media platform X. It added in a statement that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. In his 1975 book “Why Not The Best,” Carter said of himself: “I am a Southerner and an American, I am a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former governor, a planner, a businessman, a nuclear physicist, a naval officer, a canoeist, and among other things a lover of Bob Dylan’s songs and Dylan Thomas’s poetry.” A moderate Democrat, Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. After he left office and returned home to his tiny hometown of Plains in southwest Georgia, Carter regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world.

Shriram Finance (₹2,898.90) has announced a share split with a ratio of 5:1. So, the adjustment factor will be 5. The split will lead to necessary adjustments in the futures and options (F&O) contracts on this stock on the record date. The company has decided January 10 as the record/effective date. On this day, the stock price and all derivatives contracts on Shriram Finance will be adjusted appropriately. With respect to adjustment in futures contracts, the reference rate of the relevant contract on January 9 will be considered. Reference rate will be the mark-to-market settlement price of the relevant futures contract. So, the open positions shall be carried forward to January 10 at the daily settlement price on January 9 divided by 5, the adjustment factor. Suppose the nearest expiry futures closes at ₹3,000 on January 9, it will be revised to ₹600 (₹3,000 divided by 5). Also, the lot size will be increased five times from current 150 shares to 750 shares per contract. Hence, there won’t be any change in the contract value. Likewise, in options, all the strike prices in the option chain of Shriram Finance will be divided by 5 from January 10. For example, the strike price of 2,500 and 3,000 will be modified to 500 and 600 respectively. That said, the above measures are not likely to impact the overall trend of this stock. So, traders can stick to their views and are only required to note the changes in the contracts that they hold. Comments