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Democrats Should Follow the Seinfeld Principle
They have fallen into the profanity trap. Source link
Swedan Margen
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Business
The Expectation of Price Controls and Federal Investment in Defense-Critical Minerals
One obvious problem is dependence on subsidized Chinese minerals. A less obvious one is the expectation of future price controls. Source…
Business
Chinese drone maker DJI shut out of Washington with US market at risk
Chinese-owned and operated DJI Technologies is up against an end-of-year deadline to keep its US business alive, and the drone maker is…
Culture
A Brooklyn Renter’s Odyssey
Evie Cavallo is a young woman who lives in a shoe. To be specific, she rents a twenty-foot-tall cowboy-boot-shaped building, with an…
Culture
“Thirty-Three,” by D. S. Waldman
Could be half my life, I said, could be all of it. Could be a third, Gabby said. Source link
Culture
What Happens to Public Media Now?
When Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, he remarked that…
Culture
A Brooklyn Renter’s Odyssey
Evie Cavallo is a young woman who lives in a shoe. To be specific, she rents a twenty-foot-tall cowboy-boot-shaped building, with an…
Business
Mining giants squeeze dividends with an eye toward funding growth
So far this earnings season, large miners are paying out their lowest dividends in years, as mineral prices slip and they need to retain…
Business
Singapore new corporate debt issuance up 34% to S$308 billion in 2024
The corporate debt market saw robust growth in 2024, with new debt issuances rising 34 per cent year on year to S$308 billion. This…
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Japan’s steel output may sink to lowest since 1968 as US tariff risks loom
Kobe Steel, Japan’s No 3 steelmaker, on Thursday (Aug 7) reported a 3 per cent fall in quarterly crude steel output due to lower prices…
Business
DBS looks to volume growth to mitigate falling interest rates; stock soars to record high, hits S$50 mark
Shares of DBS soared to a record high on Thursday (Aug 7) – briefly hitting a milestone S$50 mark – as South-east Asia’s biggest lender…
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Toyota braces for 1.4 trillion yen hit from US tariff turmoil
Toyota Motor lowered its annual guidance as it warned of a 1.4 trillion yen (S$12 billion) hit to its bottomline from US tariffs that have…
Business
Siemens revenue climbs on robust demand for rail products
Like most manufacturers, the German manufacturer is also contending with higher tariffs Siemens’s revenue and orders rose in its fiscal…
Business
VietJet to hire more than 5,000 new Thai staff for expansion
VietJet Aviation plans to employ more than 5,000 new staff in Thailand as Vietnam’s biggest budget carrier accelerates flight and route…
Business
Sony lifts outlook on entertainment demand despite tariff threat
The company’s image sensors business faces weak handset demand as well as seismic shifts in the supply chain Sony Group raised its…
Business
BlackRock’s GIP said to hire for South-east Asia infrastructure
The challenge around such ventures is creating a risk-reward structure that attracts enough private capital Global Infrastructure Partners…
Business
Lyft shares slide on weak sales, disappointing ride totals
Lyft shares slid in late on Wednesday (Aug 6) trading after the ride-hailing company reported revenue that fell short of Wall Street’s…
Business
DBS shares reach S$50 mark, an all-time high, after unveiling higher Q2 profit
DBS shares set a record on Thursday (Aug 7) and hit the S$50 mark for the first time, after the lender posted marginally higher Q2…
Business
CSE Global Q2 new orders rise 3.8% to S$211.3 million
Systems integrator CSE Global has secured S$211.3 million worth of new orders for its second quarter ended June, a 3.8 per cent rise from…
Business
SoftBank’s AI investment spree to be in focus on at Q1 earnings
When Japan’s SoftBank Group reports earnings on Thursday, its mammoth investments in artificial intelligence companies are set to take the…
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Trump takes jabs at Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel and Stern over future of talk shows
President Trump took a swing Wednesday at hostile late-night television and talk radio hosts whose programs are on the line or are about…
Business
Saudis raise crude prices to Asia after Opec+ adds barrels
Saudi Arabia raised crude prices for a second consecutive month, signalling confidence in demand for its barrels as Organization of the…
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Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook announce new $100 billion commitment to manufacture in U.S.
President Trump announced Wednesday an agreement by Apple to make its largest U.S. investment ever, spending an additional $100 billion…
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Oil prices slide to 8-week low as US-Russia talks stir sanction uncertainty
Oil prices slid about 1 per cent to an eight-week low on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump’s remarks about progress in talks with…