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US: Wall Street advances on hopes of government reopening
WALL Street’s main indexes opened higher on Monday (Nov 10), with risk sentiment aided by signs of progress in Washington to end a record…
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Apollo to become majority shareholder in Atletico Madrid
US fund Apollo’s sports investment arm Apollo Sports Capital has agreed to become the majority shareholder in top-tier Spanish football…
Business
Grab to invest US$60 million in remote driving tech startup Vay
Vay’s mobile app lets customers request for an EV to be delivered to their location, with the help of a remote driver Ride-hailing company…
Business
Frasers Property partners CIMB Singapore to provide SMEs with flexible financing solutions
Participating retailers at Frasers Property malls will get free account setup and payment terminals Frasers Property has announced a…
Business
Riverstone Q3 earnings fall 28% to RM52 million
Revenue declines 17.1% due to lower prices for gloves amid more intense competition Glovemaker Riverstone Holdings reported a drop of 28…
News
Putting Our Humanity Above Politics
It’s necessary now, especially after last Tuesday’s election results in New York and elsewhere. Source link
News
Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N.
Five decades after its creation, it’s long past time for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People…
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Trump Deserves Credit for Focus on Nigerian Christians
But the prospects of major U.S. intervention in this situation are grim. Source link
Business
Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time…
Culture
The Comic Genius Who Pushed Television Further Than It Could Go
At its peak, “Your Show of Shows” had twenty-five million viewers, and Caesar was hailed as a genius. Albert Einstein and Leonard…
Culture
Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of the Real
On certain days, I’d cut school and head over to the Museum of Modern Art to dream awhile. This was in the mid-nineteen-seventies, and my…
Business
Boustead posts 3% drop in H1 net profit as US tariffs moderate energy sector activities
The board nevertheless declares an unchanged interim cash dividend of S$0.015 per share Mainboard-listed Boustead Singapore’s net profit…
Business
STI slips 0.1% on Monday, bucks regional trend
Genting Singapore is the top gainer on the index while ST Engineering had the biggest decline The Straits Times Index (STI) closed down on…
Business
Guinness-owner Diageo taps former Tesco chief Dave Lewis for CEO role
Diageo appointed former Tesco boss Dave Lewis as its CEO on Monday (Nov 10), ending a months-long search. The company is turning to an…
Fashion
Hong Kong extends digital bond ambitions with 3rd offering
City looking to sell digital green bonds denominated in US dollars, Hong Kong dollars, euros and offshore yuan HONG Kong is marketing a…
Business
China’s internet firms cautiously revive lending as Beijing pushes consumer loans
The more stable regulatory environment positions firms such as Ant, Meituan and ByteDance for faster growth and higher margins…
Business
Australian dollar climbs on US shutdown hopes, hits 12-year high on kiwi
The Australian dollar climbed on Monday amid hopes that the US government shutdown may end, while still hawkish commentary from a top…
News
Democrats begin calls for Schumer's ouster after some in his caucus fold on shutdown fight
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer could be in hot water with his party after Sunday's bipartisan deal that is expected to end the…
Business
Analysts positive on Singtel unit’s S$1.5 billion Bharti Airtel sale
Separately, Singtel and KKR are in talks to acquire all of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres they do not already own for more than S$6.4…
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Activists to deliver letter to Trump on behalf of persecuted Christians ahead of al-Sharaa's visit
A group of Christian leaders will provide a letter to President Trump on Monday morning calling on him and leaders in Congress to act on…
Business
ASX appoints new compliance chief amid pressure to deliver on turnaround plan
AUSTRALIAN stock exchange operator ASX has appointed Lucinda McCann as its new chief compliance officer with immediate effect, the company…
Business
SingPost tumbles 3.6% after announcing H1 profit drop
Shares of Singapore Post (SingPost) fell by as much as 3.6 per cent or S$0.015 to S$0.405 after the company announced its financial…
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Troubles Mount for the ‘British Biased Corporation’
Amid the resignation of senior BBC officials, the debate on how to save the troubled broadcaster rages on. Source link