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Bank of Mexico to Launch Its CBDC by 2024
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Bank of Mexico to Launch Its CBDC by 2024

Mexico’s central bank (Banco de México) announced it “will have a digital currency of its own in circulation” by 2024. Thus, the Latin American country put its name next to other nations such as China and Indonesia, which also unveiled plans to launch their CDBCs soon. Digital Peso by 2024 In a recent tweet, the government of Mexico revealed that Banco de México (the Central Bank of Mexico) will implement a CBDC in the country’s financial system by 2024. The authorities outlined the importance of such a move, saying it could be of “great value to advance financial inclusion” in the nation. During an interview for a convention hosted by S&P Dow Jones Indices, Jonathan Heath – Deputy Governor of Banco de México – confirmed the news, stating: “We are working on a project, ...
Panamanian exports will continue to grow in 2022 after breaking a record this year
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Panamanian exports will continue to grow in 2022 after breaking a record this year

The Minister of Commerce and Industries, Ramón Martínez, said he was confident that the Panamanian exports will continue to grow in 2022 since, for example, sand have approved the renovated 14 plants for export; Advances in automation of Foreign Trade Single Window (Vuce), currently with 75% progress; and training and support plans for producers and companies continue.He highlighted that, in terms of exports, Panamá registered record figures of $ 2,816.3 million, a 94.2% mmore than the previous year in the period from January to October.Martínez announced that by 2022 the entry of new markets is managed, through international events, such as Fruit Attraction in Spain, Texas Summit, National Export Congress with the Panamanian Association of Exporters (Apex), EXPO Dubai 2020, among othe...
I want to hire the services for my own funeral, what do I have to know?
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I want to hire the services for my own funeral, what do I have to know?

Despite the fact that in Spain death continues to be -in various senses- a taboo subject, concern for material matters related to the funeral itself occupies an important place. In fact, funeral insurance is the third most contracted in the country, only surpassed by the automobile and the housing sector. Burial or cremation: what is more environmentally friendly? Know more ...
Bitcoin gave El Salvador’s seniors the chance to smile
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Bitcoin gave El Salvador’s seniors the chance to smile

Bitcoin is a technology that changed the lives of elderly people in El Salvador, a poor country in Latin America that had its life changed in 2021. In recent months, one of the main events that marked the Bitcoin community was the adoption of the currency by El Salvador, which turned legal tender into an unimaginable movement. After a bill was introduced by President Nayib Bukele, rushed through Congress, on September 7, Bitcoin became a currency in the eyes of a state for the first time in its history, about to turn 13 years old. Before that, of course, a movement on El Zonte beach called Bitcoin Beach already recognized this currency as a common means of payment, whether for goods or services. El Salvador's Adoption of Bitcoin Gives Seniors Reason to Smile A world without many perspec...
Clara Duarte, writer: “My characters are LGTBI because I am, but I do not cause it”
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Clara Duarte, writer: “My characters are LGTBI because I am, but I do not cause it”

She was one of the most acclaimed authors by the public at the last Seville Book Fair. Her name is Clara Duarte, she was born in Seville in 1996, and with only two novels she has managed to position herself as a solid asset in the changing publishing market. From Madrid, where she studies Hispanic Philology, this 25-year-old fond of illustration and lover of music, cats and the mysteries of the Universe tells elDiario.es Andalucía cHow he started his adventure: "Today there are many ways to reach publishers, and the classic way of sending your manuscript by ordinary mail has stopped working. In fact, it is difficult t...
Israel approves fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine for immunosuppressed
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Israel approves fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine for immunosuppressed

The Government of Israel has given its approval this Thursday to the inoculation of a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine for immunosuppressed people, in an attempt to increase the immunization of this sector of the population in the face of the rebound in cases due to the omicron variant."The decision has been made due to the concern that they are more vulnerable," said the director general of the Ministry of Health, Nachman Ash, in statements published by the newspaper 'Times of Israel‘.Ash has assured that they are studying "extend it to other sectors of the population“, When he announced this Monday that they began clinical trials of the fourth booster dose of the vaccine Pfizer.In these trials, in collaboration with the Israel Ministry of Health, 6,000 people participated, inclu...
Argentine SME chosen as one of the best places to work
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Argentine SME chosen as one of the best places to work

Enerminds, an Argentine SME that develops software and innovation solutions for the management of electric power, telecommunications and cable networks, obtained the Great Place To Work certification, which recognizes the quality of the organizational culture to build a “great place to work”. www.ambito.com
Real estate: resurgence and a bet on 2022
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Real estate: resurgence and a bet on 2022

The experience of living in many months working in a virtual way, helped us to organize ourselves and be up to the queries that came from Argentina, since this market is usually the one that moves the needle in our country. Even so, it is impossible to escape the situation and although there was always the hope that the purchase of real estate would explode positively, it did not happen. The inquiries were both from the Uruguayan market with 98% of sales and the Argentine market where sales represented 8% always with great expectations for the latter, but the impossibility of access to the country due to the closure of the borders made the processes difficult. However, since Uruguay began with the gradual opening of borders, first for residents and then for the general public, those ...
Better prospects for a new year
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Better prospects for a new year

If we take the aforementioned sectors, we can see it clearly: the production of household appliances had an upturn of 46.9%; consumer electronics 54%, mining exports 20; and the production of vehicles; 56.2%. This anemic rebound also occurs in steel production, which will increase 4.8% in 2022 and had grown 31.5% this year. Construction in 2022 will have an improvement at a rate of 4%, and this year it had reached 30.2% and the production of pharmaceutical products, which in 2022 will increase by 4%, was halved from 8.9% in 2021. The agricultural activity has heterogeneous perspectives: the sale of agricultural machinery will increase by 2.7 in 2022, contrasting with 14.4% this year and the sale of fertilizers will increase by 1.5 against 12.8 in 2021. Production Agricultural (value...
What promotions do the banks offer for the gifts of the Magi?
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What promotions do the banks offer for the gifts of the Magi?

Ámbito asked the different banks what their promotions are for customers who want to help the Three Wise Men in the purchase of a gift for the children of the families: National Bank Banco Nación offers discounts of up to 35% and up to 3 installments without interest with a refund limit per transaction of $ 2000 paying with BNA + MODE, with Visa and Mastercard credit cards, Mastercard and Maestro Retired debit cards. The promotion will run between January 3 and 5. BBVA Bank The BBVA Bank offers a promotion in Selected toy stores from January 3 to 5 with 30% refund and up to 3 installments without interest with BBVA Credit Cards. Among the participating businesses, Toy Shops Carrousel, Educating, Didactic Giro, Company of Toys, We are the Toys, City Kids, Planeta BB and Baby Company ...
How much does a virtual terrain cost in the main metaverses
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How much does a virtual terrain cost in the main metaverses

It is a platform for virtual reality decentralized in three dimensions that was publicly unconstrained in February 2020. It was a project by Argentines Ari Meilich and Esteban Ordano that began in 2015. This metaverse contains 90,601 parcels of land. The virtual property in Decentraland are the NFTs that can be purchased through the MANA cryptocurrency, which is based on the Blockchain de Ethereum. "Decentraland is a virtual world powered by Ethereum blockchain, developed and owned by its users, who can create, experiment and monetize content and applications. Join a growing community of virtual world dwellers who are building the world's largest alternate reality economy on blockchain. In this store, you can buy and sell real estate assets in MANA, DCL's native currency, "says OpenSe...
The SEC Appoints New Senior Advisor for Cryptocurrency Oversight
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The SEC Appoints New Senior Advisor for Cryptocurrency Oversight

The Securities and Exchange Commission has hired Corey Frayer to advise Chairman Gary Gensler on regulations of cryptocurrencies. Frayer’s previous experience includes operating as a professional staff member of the Senate Banking Committee and policy adviser for the House Financial Services Committee. The US watchdog has a complicated history with the cryptocurrency space. The appointment of Gary Gensler as Chairman earlier this year was considered by many as a positive step for the industry since he was “intrigued” by crypto and taught blockchain classes at MIT. Under his command, the Commission finally greenlighted two Bitcoin ETFs earlier this year, even though they are backed by futures contracts, not spot BTC. Gensler believes futures-backed Bitcoin ETFs could pro...
What is SOS token?  Why is everyone talking about it?
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What is SOS token? Why is everyone talking about it?

At the end of last week, suddenly a new organization quickly became popular with the crypto community: OpenDAO. And the reason lies in the airdrop of a token called SOS. But what happened? And why is it a topic that everyone talks about? We tell you! SOS, a surprise Airdrop On Christmas Eve, what, at the time, some might consider as magic happened, because, before that day, the crypto community had no idea that something like this would happen. And is that anyone who had spent money on OpenSea had the right to claim a token for free called SOS. A fundamental aspect is that the amount of SOS that a person could claim would be directly related to the amount of money that they had spent before December 23 on OpenSea. To claim the token, people only h...
Women filmmakers stand out in film background contest
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Women filmmakers stand out in film background contest

Panamanian cinema continues to grow and demonstrates that it is an important asset in the economic reactivation of the country, where year after year the National government through the National Film Directorate of the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura), more than 2 million dollars are allocated for the National Film Competition 2021.2,145,000.00 million will be distributed in prizes, among those eligible by an international jury that qualified the categories of fiction, animation and documentary feature film production, project development and post-production support for feature films and documentaries.For this year, the version of this contest stands out for the female presence, because most of the nine projects chosen from 81 applicants for these 2021 funds, are proposals that belong to...
Gold ended its worst year since 2015 due to lower interest in safe haven assets
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Gold ended its worst year since 2015 due to lower interest in safe haven assets

While, US gold futures were up 0.5% at $ 1,823.00 an ounce. Bullion prices fell more than 4% in 2021 after climbing 48% over the previous two years, as the global economic recovery reduced demand for the metal as a safe haven. Looking ahead to 2022, while concerns about the effect of the omicron variant could support gold prices, rising U.S. bond yields could dampen the metal's appeal, said Han Tan, chief market analyst at Exinity. At the same time, "gold could see a number of catalysts for substantial gains next year, be it Fed policy blunder, stubbornly high inflation, or even a spike in geopolitical tensions," he added. In the rest of the market, silver rose 0.6% to $ 23.17 an ounce, but ended 2021 down 12%, its worst performance in seven years. Platinum fell 0.5% to $ 956.50 an ou...
DeFi Kingdoms (JEWEL): o jogo play-to-earn promissor
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DeFi Kingdoms (JEWEL): o jogo play-to-earn promissor

DeFi Kingdoms is not just a cryptogame, but also a DEX, a liquid pool it is a rare NFTs market. The game, which is free, is expanding the definition of NFTs, offering its version of tokens, called Heroes. In contrast to the classic “Static NFT”, game heroes gain experience through these adventures and can be equipped with gear to increase their effectiveness. In addition, it brought the blockchain da Harmony (ONE) for the world of cryptogames, a sector until then very associated with the network of Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain (BSC). OverviewWhat is it? DeFi Kingdoms it's a game play-to-earn or Play to Win which is expanding GameFi gameplay concepts, integrating decentralized finance (DeFi) resources into the game environment and using NFTs in a dynamic way, still uncommon among blo...
Lagos directs all primary, secondary schools to resume on January 4 for second term
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Lagos directs all primary, secondary schools to resume on January 4 for second term

The Lagos State Government has directed all public and private primary and secondary schools in the state to resume for the second term in the 2021/2022 academic session on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. It, however, stated that all boarding students across the state are expected to resume on Monday, January 3, 2022, in preparation for the academic activities. This disclosure is contained in a statement issued by the Director-General of the Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, on Friday, December 31, 2021, where she said that all learners are expected back in school as academic activities will start same day. What the Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance is saying Seriki-Ayeni wished the students and teachers a happy resumption and appe...
Macron in New Year’s Eve address: 2022 could be the end of the pandemic
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Macron in New Year’s Eve address: 2022 could be the end of the pandemic

PARIS (dpa-AFX) - In his New Year's Eve address, French President Emmanuel Macron swore his compatriots to further hardships in the corona pandemic, but at the same time also struck optimistic tones. "The coming weeks will be difficult, we all know that," said Macron in the speech broadcast on Friday evening. "The virus is circulating and is going to circulate even more."Many activities in everyday life are being canceled again because of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, and economic cuts will again be expected in various industries. "But unlike at the same time last year when the restrictions were much tighter, we now have the weapon of vaccination," Macron said. He is "decidedly optimistic" about the future. 2022 could be the year of the end of the pandemic, "I want to bel...
Arcos Dorados extends its free trainings for young people and will incorporate new content in 2022
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Arcos Dorados extends its free trainings for young people and will incorporate new content in 2022

Golden arches, the franchise that operates the brand McDonald's in 20 markets in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced that given the growing demand and the continuous registration of its free digital trainings - which already have the participation of more than 22,000 young people from 54 different countries - it will expand this initiative so that more people They can train in different skills that are useful for their future work.Therefore, it will extend the project beyond the end of the year and will include new content during the first months of 2022.In this way, the interested parties will be able to continue accessing the free and digital content, entering the platform. www.recetadelfuturo.com, and thus obtain their official certificate from Hamburger University, the larges...
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Foreign exchange: Euro continues to increase in US trade

NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) - The euro continued to gain in trade in the United States on Friday. The common currency was last listed at $ 1.1380. In European morning trading, it was quoted just above $ 1.13. The European Central Bank set the reference rate at $ 1.1326 (Thursday: 1.1334). The dollar cost 0.8829 (0.8823) euros.advertisingTrade currencies with up to leverage 30 nowTrade forex with high leverage and small spreads. With only 100.00 you can benefit from the effect of 3,000 euros in capital!Note on Plus500: 74% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you can afford the high risk of losing your money. Plus500UK Ltd is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 509909). Plus500CY Ltd is author...
Investments 2022 in emerging and developed countries: what does next year hold for us?
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Investments 2022 in emerging and developed countries: what does next year hold for us?

Going to other geographies, stocks in Europe (Euro Stoxx 50) exhibited a return in dollars of 11.8%, well below the S&P 500, while those of developed countries as a whole rose 8.0% (MSCI index of developed markets that excludes the US and Canada). On the emerging markets side, They fell 5.4% (in dollars), partly influenced by events in China throughout this year, while shares in Latin America were the hardest hit, as they concentrated an accumulated loss of 13.7%, the worst within major emerging market regions. Other assets that were among the winners this year were raw materials, which experienced a yield of 28.6%, explained, in good part, by the rise of 55.1% in the commodities After the global economic reopening, along with supply constraints and the prospect of a cold winter in the...
The music of the Savoy
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The music of the Savoy

I remember the good old days at the Savoy, when Ernie Loquasto's place brought together the best of every house. Old Al defined it better than anyone when he said the Savoy was a little light in the dark; a dirty glow marched under by types for whom death is nothing more than bad posture to waste time with. It's ...
Eviction in the Huerto de la Vía: neighbors denounce that Almeida fired them despite having one year left on loan
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Eviction in the Huerto de la Vía: neighbors denounce that Almeida fired them despite having one year left on loan

Among the rubble that surrounded the Marqués de Samaranch sports center, an oasis of greenery and vegetables was born four years ago, the result of the push of a group of neighbors. The project had been proposed, voted on and approved in the Participatory Budgets for 2016, when hundreds of Arganzuela residents supported the idea of ​​the Juan Duque association, which proposed to install a vegetable garden on the barren land next to the paddle tennis courts. ...
Chinese boycott against international brands turning their backs on the world’s cotton cradle
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Chinese boycott against international brands turning their backs on the world’s cotton cradle

The Chinese region of Xinjiang for the United States is a place where at least one million people belonging to the Uyghur ethnic group - a Muslim minority made up of 14.93 million people- They are held against their will in places that Beijing calls "vocational training centers", where they are forced to work in factories. For its part, China defends that policies against this ethnic group in the extreme northwest of the country help prevent terrorism and protect national security. ...
Gratitude
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Gratitude

During these days when we count down to the end of the year, it is also common for us to take stock of what this year was, of the good and bad that we live. Without a doubt, poverty, inequality, racism and exclusion have worsened with the COVID-19 crisis and these are not only socio-political concepts, but they are translated into daily practices that make life impossible for many people, in many cases literally.So starting from the explicit recognition of all those painful realities, some of which I have spoken from this space during these months, I also want to talk about a very personal reflection on something that I was not so aware of until recently.I tend to be one of those people who are very grateful: to the person who sells me something, to whom he serves me in a bar or restau...