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Revenue is up 7.4% at US$19.1 billion; all sectors enjoy stronger operational results Singapore-based agribusiness group Wilmar International posted a net loss of US$347.7 million for the…
In April 2025, Lucy Guo became the youngest female self-made billionaire after Meta paid $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, the company she cofounded with Alexandr Wang in 2016.…
Gates buys offsets to cancel out his own personal emissions, to the tune of about $9 million a year, he said at the roundtable, but doesn’t expect many of those offsets to make a…
Last week’s request for public comment from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) doesn’t look like a major win for a tech giant to the naked eye. In fact, it seems almost clerical. But for…
Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with Nick Fuentes makes it impossible to ignore the right’s festering antisemitism problem. Source link
A House of Dynamite succeeds as a piece of exploratory journalism but fails as a drama. Source link
Beijing’s latest Five-Year Plan, while couched in familiar bureaucratic language, marks a significant evolution in the regime’s grand strategy. Source link
Having betting out in the open is uncovering the wrongdoing that has likely been going on forever. Source link
When steel tariffs weaken America’s backbone. Source link
Plus, an update on the TEFAF art fair, and a rare Tudor gold bauble found by a metal detector. Source link
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…
