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  • The Independent

    Inoue vs Nery: What time does fight start and how to watch on Monday

    All you need to know as Naoya Inoue defends the undisputed super-bantamweight titles in Japan

  • Reuters

    Futures climb as Fed allays rate-hike worries

    While Fed chair Jerome Powell indicated that stubbornly high inflation would see a long-expected U.S. rate cut pushed back, he refused to entertain talk that rates might actually need to go up again. Money markets see a 58% chance of the first rate cut of at least 25 basis points (bps) being delivered in September, but have priced in a greater 69% chance of a cut in November, according to CME FedWatch tool. "The Fed's official statement did acknowledge a 'lack of further progress' in inflation reduction in recent months," Preston Caldwell, chief U.S. economist at Morningstar, said.

  • The Independent

    Watch live: Police enter pro-Palestine UCLA encampment after students refuse to disperse

    Watch live on Thursday (2 May) as police enter a pro-Palestine UCLA encampment after students refused to disperse. Law enforcement officers in riot gear massed by the hundreds on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles after darkness fell on Wednesday in preparation to clear out a pro-Palestinian protest camp attacked the night before by pro-Israel supporters. The chaotic scenes at UCLA came just hours after New York police burst into a building occupied by anti-war protesters at Columbia University on Tuesday night, arresting over 300 protesters.