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US FEDERAL Reserve chairman Jerome Powell seldom repeats himself, so Wall Street listened carefully when he delivered the same warning twice at a press conference following Wednesday’s…
Of course, no historical counterfactual can be absolutely definitive. There are obviously many differences between the U.S. in the 1990s and China in the 2010s beyond the presence or…
Trump’s most outrageous abuse of power involving cybercurrency was to lift national-security restrictions on exports of AI computer chips to the United Arab Emirates two weeks after the…
But Jean-Pierre’s comments fit into an important discourse happening in the Democratic Party and the broader left about how liberals should deal with gender, sexual orientation, race, and…
Deliver Me From Nowhere includes frequent black and white flashbacks to Springsteen’s boyhood in Freehold, New Jersey, where he was raised by an adoring mother (Gaby Hoffman) and a drunk,…
Innocent of the broken history, agnostic to the heartbreaks in those ruins, the new immigrants came because the battered places were cheap. They filled them up like pine saplings sprouting…
What we cannot do The versions of weather modification that the conspiracy theorists envision most often—significantly altering monsoons or hurricanes or making the skies clear and sunny…
I’d say that the rate of how much vaccines are talked about now is significantly lower, and covid doesn’t really come up anymore. But other medical illnesses come up—patients saying, “My…
It’s not like we would’ve made that knowing what was going to come, which we didn’t. And people have advanced conspiracy theories that we’re all Ivy League writers who knew … it’s…
The witch craze could not have traveled as far or lasted as long without the printing press. Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Witches), a 1486 screed by the German witch-hunter Heinrich…
When Hurricane Melissa began moving toward Jamaica earlier this week, Amazon’s chief meteorologist was watching closely—not just for the company’s global shipping operations, but also to…
JPMorgan Chase’s new $3 billion global headquarters in midtown Manhattan was finally unveiled the week of October 20 after six years in the making. But rather than highlighting the Danny…
The economic news is getting worse. Major companies are announcing mass layoffs, and it’s dominating the headlines, including in the Rust Belt. Food stamps are about to expire for…
The performance is largely a result of the bank’s wealth management unit and global banking STANDARD Chartered lifted its income and returns outlook as it reported third-quarter profit…
Lynas is focusing on a build-out of a processing plant in Malaysia, to satisfy East Asian demand First-quarter revenue at Australia’s Lynas Rare Earths rose by 66 per cent from a year…
Some 99% of hiring managers in the U.S. say they’ve used AI in some form during the hiring process, a 2025 report reveals. AI can whiz in and speed up cumbersome workflows (or make them…
The company keeps quarterly US$3.5 billion buybacks, supported by robust operating cash flow Shell posted third-quarter profit that beat analyst estimates, helped by a rebound in…
The latest buzzword is “AI literacy.” Much like “social media,” “ESG,” and “CSR” before it, employers are now looking for proof of fluency on résumés, and individuals are desperate to…
For leaders today, the pressure to do more with less feels relentless. Leaner teams, flatter organizations, and the rise of productivity tools such as Slack, Notion.ai, and Monday.com…
Asia markets are likely to face short-term pressure from the US Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate cuts, but expectations are already priced in, analysts say. The Federal Open Market…
The manager of Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) plans to divest between S$500 million and S$600 million worth of assets over the next two years, with a focus on its North American…
NOMURA said it now expects the US Federal Reserve to keep interest rates unchanged at its December policy meeting, following the central bank’s decision to cut rates on Wednesday. The…
Former Cabinet minister Lim Boon Heng is expected to retire from his role as chairman of NTUC Enterprise Co-operative, the parent of Income Insurance, Bloomberg reported on Oct 30, citing…
ASIAN stocks were subdued on Thursday morning, with investors closely watching talks between the leaders of the United States and China for potential breakthroughs to defuse a damaging…
