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Democrats Just Can’t Quit the Looters and Rioters
But if they want to restore their brand, they’ll have to realize that masked arsonists burning down cities must not really be their…
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Business
Barclays cuts more than 200 investment bank jobs to reduce costs
Barclays is preparing to cut more than 200 jobs in its investment bank in the coming days as part of chief executive officer CS…
Business
US: Wall Street opens higher as US-China trade talks begin
Street’s main indexes opened higher on Monday (Jun 9) as investors watched a fresh round of negotiations between the United States and…
Business
Asia healthcare assets risk overvaluation as private investors scoop them up
As private equity (PE) investors pour money into Asian healthcare, some observers are concerned thatthis sector could soon overheat. Some…
Culture
“Materialists” Is a Thoughtful Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Quite Add Up
The work of the Korean Canadian filmmaker Celine Song is modest in scope and intimate in feel, but listen closely to her words—to say…
Business
Global convergence of sustainability disclosure standards – what boards need to know
SUSTAINABILITY disclosures have finally begun to align globally after a long, winding journey spanning three decades. What originated in…
Business
EV maker VinFast’s Q1 loss widens on higher spending as deliveries rise
Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast on Monday (Jun 9) reported its sixth consecutive quarterly net loss as it continues to ramp up…
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How Republicans Can Make the Tax Bill More Pro-Growth
They should insist on making full expensing for capital investment permanent for all businesses. Source link
Business
Predatory Pricing Is More Myth Than Market Threat
Basic economic ideas explain why most alleged cases of predatory pricing represent something else entirely. Source link
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America Loses If Russia Wins
If America relinquishes its leadership of the free world, our economy, our security, and our future will be in peril. Source link
Business
Singapore stocks close Monday higher ahead of US-China talks; STI up 0.1%
Local stocks rose on Monday (Jun 9), in line with gains in Asian markets on hopes that a fresh round of US-China trade talks will ease…
Culture
What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?
“Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of…
Culture
The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age
How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and…
Culture
Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See”
Animals displaying human behaviors are often the stuff of fables, intent on communicating moral lessons. But in this work, by the Japanese…
Business
DBS tops US$100 billion market value in Singapore Exchange first
DBS Group Holdings became the first listed company in Singapore to top US$100 billion in market value, helped by a softer US currency that…
Business
Hong Kong to maintain US dollar peg despite geopolitical tensions
Hong Kong will maintain its currency peg to the US dollar, the financial hub’s leader said in an interview published on Monday (Jun 9),…
Business
Bank of England risks repeat of Brexit pessimism as growth signals diverge
Bank of England (BOE) rate-setters risk underestimating the strength of the UK economy by placing too much faith in downbeat business…
Business
Atome to get US$75 million from Lending Ark as credit demand grows
As traditional credit markets in the US and Europe falter, private credit investors are turning their attention to emerging markets, drawn…
Business
Nomura to shut branch in China as it scales back wealth business
The closure comes four years after Nomura announced the opening of the office in late 2021, when it was pushing to expand in areas that…
Business
Asia: Markets rally ahead of latest China-US trade talks
Stocks rallied on Monday (Jun 9) on hopes that a fresh round of China-US trade talks later in the day will ease tensions between the…
Business
‘Most unloved bonds’ turn routine US auction into crucial test
Global investor pushback against long-term government debt is turning what normally would be a routine US bond auction into one of the…
Business
Gold falls on strong US jobs data and improved trade outlook
Gold prices fell on Monday (Jun 9) as a stronger-than-expected US jobs report cooled expectations of interest rate cuts from the Federal…
Business
China says it may speed up rare earths application approvals from EU
China is willing to accelerate the examination and approval of rare earth exports to European Union firms and will also deliver a verdict…