Cotton futures are trading with Thursday midday losses of 56 to 93 points. The US dollar index was up $0.540 on the day to $97.060, with crude oil futures $0.36 lower. USDA tallied upland cotton export business at 186,108 RB for the week that ended on September 11. Shipments were pegged at a 3-week low of
It’s fitting that the San Francisco Public Library was the catalyst for Irena Eide’s Little Folkies project. The public library and the folk music tradition have a lot in common. Both are community-based cultural and learning institutions, and each has a children’s section. “I was getting CDs and songbooks at the library, by people like
A former Highways England executive who led planning on HS2 has been banned from being a director over covid loan abuse. Businesswoman Anna Daroy secured £100,000 in Bounce Back Loan funds for management consultancy Globepoint Associates Ltd in 2020 when it should only have received £50,000. The 61-year-old, who has had a 35-year career in
Anna Daroy has also served as Director General of the Institute of Directors and a raft of senior roles across all industries. She was Executive Director of Strategy and Planning at Highways England from 2015-17. In 2020 she secured two maximum-value £50,000 Bounce Back Loans from separate banks for her management consultancy Globepoint Associates Ltd. Daroy
LONDON (AP) — Windsor Castle staff are setting the 50-meter-long (164-feet-long) mahogany table. Grooms are buffing the hooves of the horses that will pull the royal carriages. And the military honor guard is drilling to ensure every step lands with precision. Throughout the halls and grounds of the almost 1,000-year-old castle west of London, hundreds
New Delhi: GST reforms, including the tax rate cuts effective 22 September, aim to benefit the poor and middle class, farmers and small businesses while boosting consumption and investments, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday. Addressing a gathering in Kolkata on next-generation GST reforms, Sitharaman said the reforms seek to simplify the tax structure
An artist’s impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26. New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that 1998 KY26 is just 11 m wide, almost three times smaller than previously thought, and is spinning once every 5 minutes, which is much faster than
Photo Credit: Spotify Sony Music Publishing (SMP) has officially inked a direct deal with Spotify, joining Warner Chappell, Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), and others. The streaming platform confirmed the pact – one component of a broader multiyear Sony Music Group agreement – in a brief announcement this morning. Against the backdrop of Spotify’s bundling
Photo Credit: Dima Solomin Back in June, X and several major music publishers moved to pause their copyright infringement battle to explore settlement discussions. Now, the parties have revealed that the talks failed to produce a resolution. The social platform and the NMPA-corralled plaintiffs relayed as much to the court in a brief notice. Technically
Washington, D.C. – WEBWIRE – Thursday, September 18, 2025 NPR announced that Sonali Mehta has been named Executive Director of NPR Music. She will start September 22, and will be based in New York. Mehta is a music industry professional with extensive experience in the areas of artist partnership, content strategy, and business development. She
