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AL RAYYAN, Qatar — Hello and welcome to the weekly L.A. Times soccer newsletter. I’m Kevin Baxter, The Times’ soccer writer, coming to you for the final time from Qatar, where the World Cup ended Sunday with Argentina’s Lionel Messi finally claiming his first World Cup trophy. Today we’ll look at what the expanded tournament format for 2026 will mean for CONCACAF (spoiler alert: it’s not good), a cathartic adoption for two English players who went out in the quarterfinals and the joint investigation by the NWSL and its…

A pedestrian walks past a certified pre-owned car sales lot in Alhambra, California on January 12, 2022.Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty ImagesDETROIT – Wholesale prices of used vehicles reached their lowest level in more than a year last month, as retail sales decline amid interest rate hikes, rising new vehicle availability and recessionary fears.Cox Automotive said Wednesday that its Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index, which tracks prices of used vehicles sold at its U.S. wholesale auctions, has declined 15.6% from record…

Is Ethereum (ETH) Becoming Deflationary? Orbeon Protocol (ORBN) is Setting New All-time Highs by IndustryTrends November 30, 2022 Yes, Ethereum (ETH) is indeed becoming deflationary. As of writing this article on Tuesday, November 17th, the total supply of Ether has decreased by more than 400 ETH, 55 days after the 2.0 merge. This makes Ethereum’s current deflation rate 0.001% annually. This deflationary status could make ETH’s price increase soon, but there’s another project, still in phase two of its pre-sale, that…

by Market Trends November 26, 2022 The crypto market has been hit by a tsunami of calamities, leaving most of the community disenchanted with the current state of affairs. It all started when the US government banned the ‘Tornado Cash’ software, leaving the validators with a rough choice: bend the knee or be considered the state’s enemy. On the back of this news, the NFT market plummeted through the floor, liquidating almost 90% of its trading volume.This, in turn, was followed by a crash of all major collections,…

Only a few vehicles, including one with two health workers, drive through Beijing's central business district on Nov. 23, 2022, as the area has announced tighter Covid controls.Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Mainland China reported more than 31,000 Covid infections for Wednesday, including cases without symptoms.That surpassed the 29,317 high seen in mid-April, during the Shanghai lockdown, according to CNBC calculations of Wind Information data. However, daily Covid infections with symptoms…

This year’s edition of Anime NYC marks only the second time I’ve visited the event, the 2019 edition being the first. I went to see Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino then, an experience that felt very much like an important gathering of Anime geekdom. The Javits Center convention floor was colorful, vibrant, and featured a large amount of booths dedicated to cosplay items, anime model kits, and trading cards that appealed to fans whose favorite series and movies were represented in giant banners and countless cosplayers…

Mortgage application volume barely moved last week, falling 0.5% compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted index.Rates, meanwhile, dropped back a little bit last week, but they're still near a 22-year high.The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) decreased to 7.06% from 7.16%, with points falling to 0.73 from 0.88 (including the origination fee) for loans with a 20% down payment. That rate…

The global crypto community has started considering Bitcoin Dead as Web3 overtakes Google trends Google trends for “Bitcoin dead” have spiked since mid-June and likely reached the highest level on record. Google Trends tracks interest in search terms over time, assigning scores of 1 to 100 based on the total number of user queries. The data are anonymized, categorized by topic, and aggregated based on location. The global crypto community has started to redirect its interest from Bitcoin (BTC) as Web3 overtakes Google…

Perhaps unsurprisingly, new PitchBook data found that U.S. companies with all female founders are raising less capital this year than the last amid current economic woes. Last year, women raised around 2.4% of all venture capital allocated, a figure that stands at 1.9% through Q3 of this year. That number becomes even lower and even worse if we factor race into account. When the overall number for all-female teams was 2.4% last year, Black and Latinx women hovered around 0.05% each, while Indigenous Americans raised…

This past weekend, Rolling Loud touched down in Toronto for the first time ever and it was a star-studded affair.Artists and fans alike poured into the city as the three-day festival took over Ontario Place from Friday to Sunday, proving that the event’s illustrious reputation is nothing to scoff at.After a series of smaller festivals went awry, Toronto—aka the “Screwface Capital” of the world—seemed hungry for something more legitimate to cap off the summer. Fortunately for everybody involved, that’s exactly where…