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Growth Is Expensive—Aim Higher Anyway
Let’s be honest: real growth hurts before it helps. The bills arrive long before the payoff. That’s not a reason to slow down. It’s a…
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Carrefour CEO eyes higher profits under core markets refocus
Carrefour aims for one billion euros (S$1.5 billion) in annual cost cuts as part of CEO Alexandre Bompard’s new plan to boost profits and…
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Oil prices settle slightly higher
Oil prices settled marginally higher on Friday (Feb 13) after data showed an overall slowdown in US inflation, helping offset supply…
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Higher Sports Fees Eat Into Fox’s Q2 Profit, Despite Revenue Increases
The costs of investing in sports chipped away at Fox’s profit in the company’s second quarter, as the owner of Fox News Channel and Fox…
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UBS posts higher profit, signals US$3 billion buyback with upside
Group posted a profit which beat expectations in the fourth quarter, as the bank announced a US$3 billion buyback programme for 2026 with…
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Trump’s War on Higher Ed Is an Attack on Women
Borrowers most likely to be in default are the working- and middle-class Americans who have little room in their budgets. As of September,…
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Higher education needs to change in order to survive the AI economy
A college degree is usually thought of as a ticket to a great job and a secure future. Yet, the job market over the past few years has not…
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Do Americans Really Want Higher Taxes?
Democrats should be wary of reading too much into the polling. Source link
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‘Significant improvement’: CNMC Goldmine expects profit lift for 2025 on higher gold, silver prices
CNMC Goldmine expects a “significant overall improvement” to its net profit for the financial year ended Dec 31, 2025, compared with the…
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Singapore, Asia markets end largely higher after Fed pause and MAS hold as focus shifts to earnings
Investor attention is shifting towards fundamentals and AI-linked growth themes in the region Markets in Asia broadly gained ground on…
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S&P, Nasdaq opens higher as earnings roll in
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened higher on Tuesday (Jan 27) as investors parsed a fresh round of mega-cap earnings, while health insurers…
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S&P 500, Dow open slightly higher with big tech results
The S&P 500 and the Dow opened slightly higher on Monday (Jan 26), as investors braced for a heavyweight run of earnings along with a…
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Will UOB climb higher after its big rebound?
Softer rates are squeezing NIMs at the 3 Singapore banks, but also spurring excitement about the potential for valuations to rise and…
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Why higher education needs to embrace AI
For all the talk of how artificial intelligence will revolutionize the way we live and work, there are few industries where generative AI…
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Wall Street opens higher on tariff relief
stocks opened higher on Thursday (Jan 22), inching towards all-time highs, after President Donald Trump dialed back his threat of tariffs…
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UOB closes 2.3% higher following Asia market rebound; Macquarie upgrades stock
It has potential for a ‘relative-value catch-up play’, with headwinds set to abate this earnings season Shares of UOB rose on Thursday…
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Oil prices settle higher on force majeure at Kazakh field, slow Venezuela exports
Oil prices closed 0.5 per cent higher on Wednesday on optimism around tighter supply after a temporary shutdown at two large fields in…
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US stocks: Wall Street ends higher on Greenland framework deal
three Wall Street benchmarks closed higher on Wednesday, buoyed by the news that a framework for an agreement on Greenland had been…
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Transcript: Trump Is Destroying Higher Ed. Here’s How To Rebuild It
How it actually works is the students who have a lot of outside options, which tend to be the more well-off students, they’re the ones the…
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Trump Is Destroying Higher Ed. Here’s How Democrats Can Rebuild It
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. The Trump administration…
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Wall Street opens higher after rout, Trump speech in focus
stocks staged a modest recovery on Wednesday (Jan 21) after the sharpest equities sell-off in three months, as investors digested…
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PC Partner closes 20.9% higher on positive FY2025 profit guidance
It is now listed only in Singapore, having delisted from the Hong Kong bourse on Jan 14 Shares of electronics company PC Partner soared on…
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WTI expected to trend higher in near term
WEST Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude prices have staged a modest recovery since the start of the year, rising about 4 per cent year-to-date…
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S&P 500, Nasdaq open higher as chip stocks extend rally
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened stronger on Friday (Jan 16) as chipmakers returned to the driver’s seat in a volatile week that also…