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US: Wall St posts tame gains at open
— Wall Street’s main indexes opened modestly higher on Wednesday (Sep 24) as traders assessed measured comments from US Federal Reserve…
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White House says broken escalator at the U.N. may have been 'sabotage'
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the broken escalator at the U.N. that forced President Trump and first lady Melania…
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Financial firms to feel outsized impact from Trump’s H-1B overhaul
The Trump administration’s overhaul of the H-1B system could have an outsized impact on the finance industry, which could face hiring…
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California county decides it's time to remove pets from voter rolls
Orange County in California ordered its voter registrar on Tuesday to scour voting lists and remove any names of pets that somehow made it…
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As Fed and regional rates fall, Asia’s banks remain attractive yield plays: analysts
Loan growth and risk levels will impact capital availability for dividends in Asean Even as the US Federal Reserve and central banks…
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More Evidence Needed for Trump Administration’s Tylenol Warning
Americans could be forgiven for waiting to see more data before emptying out their medicine cabinets. Source link
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Charlie Kirk’s Movement Will Not Die with Him
We must use this moment to fight for lasting change, especially by changing the culture of higher education. Source link
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Trump DOJ Courting Chaos in Effort to Install New Virginia U.S. Attorney
This is worth watching. Source link
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Megadoc Scrutinizes Coppola’s Art-and-Politics Folly
A close-up report on Millennial ambition and failure. Source link
Culture
Gary Shteyngart’s Tragicomedy of the Penis in “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong”
Watch “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong.” Gary Shteyngart was just seven years old when his family emigrated from the Soviet Union and settled in…
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Singapore stocks slip as US Fed chair Powell says equities ‘highly valued’; STI drops 0.3%
In the wider market, gainers edge out losers 285 to 270, after 1.6 billion shares worth S$1.4 billion change hands The Straits Times Index…
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OCBC appoints Carina Lee as new group chief risk officer
OCBC has appointed Carina Lee – its current group chief credit officer for the wholesale banking business – as its new group chief risk…
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UBS boosts payouts for US wealth advisers amid intense hiring battle
The move comes after UBS lost several high-profile US wealth adviser teams to rivals or independence UBS Group is raising the payouts…
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Asia’s real-time payments surge, but gaps persist: StanChart
One common challenge is reconciling payment data, where mandatory fields needed in one country’s transactions differ from those in another…
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Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max AI model with more than one trillion parameters
The company has announced plans to invest 380 billion yuan in artificial intelligence-related infrastructure over the next three years…
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Australian central bank blasts ASX for trading settlement failures
The Australian Securities Exchange must make “foundational changes” to its governance, culture and risk management after last year’s…
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In return to ABC show, Kimmel denies he was making fun of Kirk assassination
Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night television show Tuesday night after nearly a week-long suspension with a monologue filled with…
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China’s Comac said to slash delivery targets for its C919 jet
The Chinese aircraft maker is seeing bottlenecks in virtually all key parts of its supply chain, hampering its ability to produce jets at…
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Adelita Grijalva wins special congressional election to succeed her father in southern Arizona
Southern Arizona voters on Tuesday chose Adelita Grijalva to succeed her father, the late U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a progressive Democrat…
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Asia: Markets waver after Wall Street retreats from record
EQUITIES wavered on Wednesday following a down day on Wall Street, where worries about high valuations were compounded by mixed messaging…
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Cathie Wood buys Alibaba after four years in China comeback
Cathie Wood’s funds reopened positions in Alibaba Group Holding for the first time in four years, just as the stock rallied to a multiyear…
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Gold steady near record high as markets assess Powell’s comment
The US weekly initial jobless claims report is due on Thursday, followed by the Personal Consumption Expenditures index, the Fed’s…
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Trump administration rehires hundreds of laid-off employees sacked in Musk's cost-cutting blitz
Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk's cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work. Source link
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Food Empire raises S$42.8 million from placement of 17 million treasury shares
The placement is expected to broaden the company’s investor base and position it for future growth opportunities Food Empire raised around…