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More Products, Less Press: How ‘Wicked: For Good’ Marketing Stayed Relevant While Scaling Back
Before “Wicked” landed on the big screen a year ago, Universal told cinema owners of its simple goal for promoting the movie musical. It…
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Don’t Bet the House on the 50-Year Mortgage
President Trump’s proposed reform would be a terrible deal for homebuyers and taxpayers alike. Source link
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Stock markets did just fine during the government shutdown as investors shrugged off dysfunction in Congress
Forty-three days later, the U.S. government shutdown has come to an end. While it wreaked havoc on government services, flights, and…
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Novo gets 15 billion euros of orders for Akero acquisition bonds
Novo Nordisk has pulled in more than 15 billion euros (S$22.6 billion) of investor orders for its multi-tranche bond sale, more than…
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Centurion posts 9% rise in Q3 revenue with strong demand for worker, student housing
The company has S$713 million in borrowings as at Sep 30, against S$434 million in cash Centurion Corp saw revenue rise 9 per cent to…
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Versant’s USA Sports, Pac-12 Strike 5-Year Rights Deal
Versant‘s USA Sports and the Pac-12 Conference struck a five-year rights pact that will put regular-season football and men’s and women’s…
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The Download: AI to measure pain, and how to deal with conspiracy theorists
It was during the pandemic. They suddenly started posting daily on Facebook about the dangers of covid vaccines and masks, warning of an…
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Sats Q2 net profit up 13.3% to S$78.9 million as clients front-load orders ahead of US tariffs
The group declares an interim dividend of S$0.02 per share, higher than S$0.015 a year ago In-flight caterer and ground handler Sats on…
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EC World Reit Q3 net property income down 60.5%; illegally mortgaged units face 2 lawsuits
The Reit is suspended from trading, and it is unlikely to declare any distribution for FY2025 The manager of EC World Reit posted a net…
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Apple and Tencent agree to 15% fee on WeChat mini game purchases
Tencent Holdings has agreed a deal with Apple that will see the iPhone maker handle payments and take a 15 per cent cut of purchases in…
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Bumitama Agri’s 9M profit rises 29% with record rainfall in Central Kalimantan
Crude palm oil accounts for 84% of its sales, with the remainder from palm kernel Palm oil producer Bumitama Agri posted a 29 per cent…
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The 50-Year Mortgage Would Make Things Worse for Gen Z
This is not the answer to the housing crisis. Source link
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Debt-ridden mm2 Asia’s H1 net loss deepens to S$39.7 million as existential threat looms
Entertainment group mm2 Asia on Thursday (Nov 13) reported a net loss of S$39.7 million for the half-year ended Sep 30, widening from the…
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1MDB drops JPMorgan, Coutts from US$1.1b lawsuit
Malaysia state firm 1MDB dropped its court action against JPMorgan and Coutts, The Edge reported. The two banks were part of Malaysia’s…
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Venture posts 8.3% fall in Q3 earnings amid softness in consumer tech
The company is ‘ramping up activities for hyperscale data centres’, including network connectivity solutions Technology player Venture…
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Goldman set for record advisory year after US$110 million fee on EA’s take-private deal
A 2025 M&A rebound has lifted US bank deal revenue, with Goldman outpacing its rivals Goldman Sachs Group’s biggest-ever M&A payday may be…
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SIA posts 67.8% drop in net profit to S$238.5 million for H1 FY2026; declares special dividend package
The group attributes the decline in earnings to losses by its associate Air India, which were not included in previous year’s results…
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SIA posts 82.1% drop in net profit to S$52 million for Q2; declares special dividend package
The group attributes the decline in earnings to losses by its associate Air India, which are not included in previous year’s results…
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Pfizer looks to sell stake in pandemic vaccine partner BioNTech
Pfizer is looking to sell its remaining stake in Covid-19 vaccine partner BioNTech, a remnant from one of the pandemic’s most lucrative…
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STI inches higher on Thursday, tracking regional benchmarks
Singapore stocks ended higher on Thursday (Nov 13), tracking regional peers. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) gained 0.2 per cent…
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Marco Polo Marine unit clinches NT$4.7 billion project for research vessel in largest contract win
The project marks the company’s strategic expansion into high-value, specialised vessel construction Integrated marine logistics company…
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Tencent posts 15% revenue jump, sustaining growth without splashy AI bets
China’s most valuable company reports sales of 192.9 billion yuan for the three months ended September [SHENZHEN, China] Tencent Holdings…
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What to say to coworkers who get laid off
Seeing peers lose their jobs has a way of making people weird. It’s not much different from grief. When someone loses a loved one, you can…
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Singtel remains ‘fully behind’ Optus despite outages and lacklustre returns
Singtel chief says it has to ‘work very hard to rebuild the trust and the confidence’ the outages have taken Minority shareholders of…