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New Jobs Data Blows Up One of Trump’s Main Talking Points
President Donald Trump wants to pretend like he’s not crippling the economy, but job growth in 2025 has dropped by more than half and it’s…
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Jack Smith defends secretly obtaining lawmakers' phone data
Former special counsel Jack Smith told House lawmakers he lawfully obtained their cellphone data as part of his investigation into…
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Oracle data centre plan hit as Blue Owl walks from US$10 billion deal: source
Blue Owl’s discussions with lenders and Oracle for an OpenAI-linked Michigan data centre stall after failed negotiations Oracle’s largest…
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Asian markets drift as US jobs data fails to boost rate cut hopes
ASIAN equities fluctuated on Wednesday as mixed US jobs data did little to boost expectations for another interest rate cut next month,…
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Coupang CEO fails to appear at South Korean parliamentary hearing on data breach
The founder of South Korea’s Coupang failed to appear before a Wednesday parliamentary hearing about the massive data breach at the…
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Stock market falls after mixed data on the economy
The U.S. stock market is drifting lower on Tuesday following mixed data on the economy’s strength, which did little to clear uncertainty…
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D.C. Mayor Bowser skewers House for alleging police chief pressured staff to alter crime data
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is blasting the House Oversight Committee for its "biased" report accusing Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A.…
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Who should pay for the power grid’s race to keep up with data centers?
The amount of electricity data centers use in the U.S. in the coming years is expected to be significant. But regular reports of proposals…
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Wall Street slips at open as investors assess key jobs data
Wall Street’s main indexes slipped at the open on Tuesday (Dec 16) after data broadly signalled a cooling US economy, paving the way for…
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Keppel divests remaining interests in two Singapore data centres for S$50.5 million to Keppel DC Reit
Asset manager Keppel announced on Tuesday (Dec 16) that its connectivity division has agreed to sell its stakes in two data centres for a…
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Singapore stocks edge lower ahead of key US data; STI down 0.2%
Singapore stocks ended lower on Tuesday (Dec 16), ahead of a slate of US economic data due later in the day. The benchmark Straits Times…
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TotalEnergies wins 21-year deal to power Google data centres in Malaysia
The power supply contract is expected to take effect in the first quarter of next year France’s TotalEnergies said on Tuesday (Dec 16) it…
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Europe: Stocks recover, banks lead; ECB decision, US data in focus
EUROPEAN shares ended higher on Monday in broad-based gains led by banks, kicking off a week packed with central bank decisions and…
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US stocks close lower as investors position for busy week of data
WALL Street closed lower on Monday as investors braced for a slew of economic data later this week while assessing reports on Federal…
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Congressional panel accuses D.C. police chief of pressuring commanders to manipulate crime data
The police chief in the nation's capital pressured subordinates to manipulate department data to artificially lower the city's crime…
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Oracle denies report on OpenAI data centre delays
Oracle denied on Friday (Dec 12) a media report that it was delaying OpenAI-related data centres, following investor worries over its…
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PDRN Skincare, Espresso Hair, and Polka-Dot Nails: 9 Trends That Dominated 2025, According to Search Data
It's hard to believe that 2025 is coming to an end. It feels like just yesterday that we were waking up on January 1, turning our…
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SoftBank eyes data centre group switch as Son hunts for AI
SOFTBANK Group is studying potential acquisitions including data centre operator Switch Inc., as billionaire founder Masayoshi Son ramps…
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Axa warns on data centre ‘gambles’ as private credit risks rise
French insurer Axa is exercising greater caution on the artificial intelligence build-out when backing financing for the sector, amid…
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The new AI paradox: smarter models, worse data
AI promises a smarter, faster, more efficient future, but beneath that optimism lies a quiet problem that’s getting worse: the data…
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Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach
Coupang chief executive officer Park Dae-jun resigned over his failure to prevent South Korea’s largest-ever data breach, which set off a…
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South Korea police raid e-commerce giant Coupang over data leak
Personal information of 33.7 million customers had been leaked – almost two-thirds of the population South Korean police raided the Seoul…
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Microsoft “aggressively” looking at South-east Asian clean energy projects amid data centre boom
The tech giant will also “take a very close look” at Singapore’s latest call to build new data centres Microsoft is looking into…
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US: Wall St closes with slight gains as data keeps Fed cut expectations on track
US stocks closed out the trading week with slight gains on Friday (Dec 5) as the latest flurry of economic data kept elevated expectations…