Business Highlights: Online gambling, Fed rate hikes

‘The ultimate goal was not to build the City Football Academy — it was to make that vision for youth development a reality. The cornerstone of the future is a vision for youth development and sustainability.’

Standing in the way of an agreement was the simple fact that each EU member country depends on different energy sources and suppliers. The leaders hope to make more progress when they meet again on Oct. 20-21.

TORONTO — Right-hander Luis Castillo pitched 7 1/3 innings, Cal Raleigh homered and the visiting Seattle Mariners defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-0 Friday in the opener of an American League wild-card series.

It´s hoped that a price cap will contain a crisis that is driving up prices for consumers and businesses. Russia has tightened the gas taps as European governments support Ukraine with weapons and money. Yet an EU leaders summit in Prague on Friday didn´t produce a breakthrough on the gas cap.

Sept 15 (Reuters) — Britain’s antitrust watchdog said on Thursday it would launch an in-depth probe into Xbox maker Microsoft’s $69-billion purchase of «Call of Duty» maker Activision Blizzard after the tech giant failed to offer remedies to soothe competition concerns.

Cole Palmer has followed Foden’s lead and is now fully integrated into Guardiola’s squad. At least one Premier League club asked to take the tricky forward on loan this term but were met with a firm no. 

Star managing director Matt Beiker resigned inside the third week of hearings after an auditor said he’d been berated by the casino boss for reporting the organisation was not doing enough to comply with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.

WASHINGTON (AP) — America´s employers slowed their hiring in September but still added 263,000 jobs, a solid figure that will likely keep the Federal Reserve on pace to keep raising interest rates aggressively to fight persistently high inflation. Hiring fell from 315,000 in August to the weakest monthly gain since April 2021.

Certainly the idea of having up to seven academy graduates on a pitch during a Premier League game seemed far-fetched at best. Yet on Saturday, Southampton arrive at the Etihad Stadium having spent more than £40million on four of City’s kids in one summer.

And just when things looked on the up for 2016, the Eels were struck down by allegations of salary-cap rorting that eventually led to the stripping of 12 points and a complete restructure of their administration.

Star Entertainment could have its gaming licences torn up at two of its Queensland Casinos with an inquiry set to hand down a damning report on Thursday alleging money laundering, tax fraud and offering gifts for suspected criminals.

Earlier this week Musk reversed course and said he´d go through with acquiring the social media company under the same terms he agreed to in April. But after months of tweetstorms and legal barbs, there are scars and suspicions on both sides. Both sides are now fighting over whether Twitter´s lawsuit against Musk should be dropped.

Reuters previously reported that Microsoft would pay a $3 billion break-up fee if the deal falls through, according to a source familiar with the matter, suggesting the company was confident of winning antitrust approval.

Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said earlier this month the takeover of the videogame publisher maker could hurt competition in gaming consoles, subscription services and cloud gaming if Microsoft refused to give competitors access to Activision’s best-selling pkv Games.

And clearly worth paying for — Southampton also saw a £15m bid for striker Liam Delap rejected. Almost a third of a record-breaking transfer window, totalling revenues of around £170m, came from selling academy products. 

BISMARCK, N.D.(AP) — North Dakota´s five American Indian tribes want exclusive rights to host internet gambling and sports betting throughout the state utilizing servers located on their reservations. The tribes are turning to Republican Gov. Doug Burgum to approve the idea, under tribal-state agreements known as a compacts.

We want to guarantee PlayStation gamers continue to have the highest quality gaming experience, and we appreciate the CMA´s focus on protecting gamers.» (Reporting by Amna Karimi and Radhika Anilkumar in Bengaluru and Foo Yun Chee in Brussels; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi and Susan Fenton)

‘We had an all-staff meeting on Monday where I highlighted three big organisations — in mobile phones, video rentals and photography — that soon got knocked off their perch by taking their eye off the ball and stopped focusing on what is important.

He later blamed a poor culture at the casino for its failure to clamp down on money laundering and misleading banks and the regulator, revealing he personally green-lit an $11million line of credit to a high roller and okayed illegal lending.

Star Entertainment could have its gaming licences torn up at two of its Queensland Casinos with an inquiry set to hand down a damning report on Thursday alleging money laundering, tax fraud and offering gifts for suspected criminals.