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  • Weight Loss May Help Brain Stay Younger

    Weight Loss May Help Brain Stay Younger

    • Weight loss in two trials was linked to MRI measures showing slightly younger-looking brains.
    • Improvements in insulin resistance and inflammation lined up with healthier brain-age scores.
    • Some participants also showed small gains in attention and…

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  • Shehbaz praises NAB’s ‘remarkable achievements’

    Shehbaz praises NAB’s ‘remarkable achievements’


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    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday praised the National…

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  • Clay-Based Tools for Modern Pollution Exposure Control

    Clay-Based Tools for Modern Pollution Exposure Control

    Kaleigh Harrison

    Engineered clay is finding new relevance in environmental risk mitigation, thanks to decades of research led by Dr. Timothy Phillips at Texas A&M University. Originally studied for…

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  • CT DPH head raises alarm following changes to vaccine recommendations from CDC

    CT DPH head raises alarm following changes to vaccine recommendations from CDC

    Connecticut health officials continue to call out against the latest decision from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine panel to overturn a longstanding recommendation on hepatitis B…

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  • vivo X300 and X300 Pro are going into the wild with National Geographic

    vivo X300 and X300 Pro are going into the wild with National Geographic

    Today vivo has announced a new partnership with National Geographic Creative Works. It’s done under the slogan Go Into the Wild, and it’s “an immersive photography and storytelling initiative”, captured entirely on vivo’s new X300 series,…

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  • Shenzhou XXI astronauts conduct first spacewalk, install debris shields

    Shenzhou XXI astronauts conduct first spacewalk, install debris shields

    A screen image taken on Tuesday at the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center shows Shenzhou XXI mission commander Senior Colonel Zhang Lu (top) and spaceflight engineer Major Wu Fei (right) conducting their…

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  • Scotland fans spend thousands to realise World Cup dream

    Scotland fans spend thousands to realise World Cup dream

    Paul O’Hare and Laura HuttonBBC Scotland

    Diane Lees Jim and Diane Lees have their arms around each other. Jim wears a tartan scarf, black jacket and backwards light blue cap. He has short white hair. Diane wears a Scotland strip and has long blonde hair and both raise their fists in the air.Diane Lees

    Diane and Jim Lees plan to attend Scotland’s second World Cup match against Morocco

    Scotland fans have been scrambling to book flights, hotels and transfers since being drawn to play World Cup…

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  • Markets anxious over Japan’s risk of ’negative spiral,’ top bank MUFG exec says

    Markets anxious over Japan’s risk of ’negative spiral,’ top bank MUFG exec says

    TOKYO, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Markets are increasingly worried about Japan’s “tail risk” of slipping into a negative spiral, where monetary tightening lags inflation and a weak yen pushes prices higher, the markets chief at top lender Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (8306.T), opens new tab said.

    Markets have priced in a 90% chance of a rate hike by the Bank of Japan this month, shifting attention to how the central bank signals its longer-term policy path.

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    MUFG is among top Japanese players in the foreign exchange market and the largest owner of Japanese government bonds among major banks.

    “If the BOJ fails to anchor expectations for further rate hikes beyond the next and the government boosts spending to appease voters frustrated with inflation, the yen could weaken further,” Hiroyuki Seki, the head of MUFG’s Global Markets Business Group, told Reuters in an interview.

    “That could re-accelerate import costs, creating a negative spiral of inflation and currency depreciation,” he said.

    Despite narrowing interest rate differentials with the United States, the yen has remained weak around 155 per dollar, partly reflecting market expectations that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s reflationary stance could limit further BOJ tightening.

    Seki stressed that eliminating Japan’s extremely low real interest rates was essential.

    “The BOJ needs to move early and steadily toward monetary normalization to preempt a vicious cycle where insufficient tightening allows yen depreciation to push inflation even higher,” he said.

    Beyond the potential December hike, Seki expects the BOJ to follow a gradual normalization path, raising rates by 25 basis points roughly every six months, provided economic and price trends evolve in line with the central bank’s projections.

    The so-called terminal rate – the level at which the tightening cycle is expected to end – is projected at 1.25%-1.5% by mid-2027, though risks are skewed higher if inflation proves sticky, he said.

    The BOJ has released estimates suggesting Japan’s nominal neutral interest rate – one that neither cools nor overheats the economy – lies somewhere between 1% and 2.5%.

    On MUFG’s Japanese government bond strategy, Seki said the bank has been cautiously rebuilding positions since the benchmark 10-year yield rose above 1.65%.

    “If the yield exceeds 2%, we plan to accelerate the pace of rebuilding, mainly on 10-year bonds, in line with higher interest rates,” he said. MUFG has substantial capacity for purchases given its currently restrained risk exposure, he added.

    Reporting by Makiko Yamazaki, Miho Uranaka and Tomo Uetake; Additional reporting by Takaya Yamaguchi
    Editing by Tomasz Janowski

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  • A Future Lenovo Legion Gaming Laptop Could Have an Ultrawide Screen on Demand

    A Future Lenovo Legion Gaming Laptop Could Have an Ultrawide Screen on Demand

    Lenovo could show off a new approach to its rollable OLED screen tech early next year: giving a laptop the ability to go ultrawide, according to Windows Latest (via The Verge). The laptop, which the outlet refers to as the Legion Pro Rollable,…

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  • Exploitation of Sneeit WordPress RCE, ICTBroadcast flaw ongoing – SC Media

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