Hong Kong regulator ramps up warnings over poor IPO filings
Securities and Futures Commission flags that teams are unfamiliar with regulatory requirements and lack the experience to handle applications Hong Kong’s market regulator stepped…
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Trump nominates former Fed official Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as next Fed chair
The move signals a potential pivot toward lower rates as Trump puts his stamp on the US economy — President Donald Trump on Friday (Jan 30)…
Trump nominates former Fed official Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as Fed chair
Move signals a potential pivot towards lower rates as US president puts his stamp on American economy — President Donald Trump on Friday…
ExxonMobil beats Wall Street targets for Q4 profit with help from lower-cost oil production
ExxonMobil beat Wall Street targets in fourth-quarter earnings reported on Friday (Jan 30), with lower-cost oil production in the Permian Basin and Guyana helping to boost the No…
SGX to launch three new SDRs on Feb 2, including Chinese gold producer Zijin Gold
Singapore Depository Receipts’ daily turnover grows 10 times year on year to S$12 million The Singapore Exchange (SGX) is launching three new Singapore Depository Receipt (SDR) counters –…
Which "Wuthering Heights" Character Are You?
Which "Wuthering Heights" Character Are You? Are you more like Jacob Elordi's Heathcliff or Margot Robbie's Catherine Earnshaw? Discover your inner emotional intensity and see which…
The Week: The Alex Pretti Aftermath
Plus: America’s historically low murder rate. Source link
Hollywood’s Academy Commits 16 Sins
Embarrassing stats for the mediocre Sinners. Source link
Bozell at 100
The National Review editor and Goldwater ghostwriter showed the importance of principles — and reexamining them. Source link
The Government Can Do Better Than Trump Accounts
Encouraging savings from a young age is a worthy aim, but families don’t need another entitlement program. Source link
President Trump, Don’t Go Soft on Woke Capital
Washington must depoliticize the market and turn ‘passive-aggressive’ holders like BlackRock back into the passive investors they claim to be. Source link
Britain’s Chagos Deal Can’t Go Forward Without U.S. Consent
Thanks to a 60-year-old agreement, the U.K. cannot legally surrender the islands to Mauritius unless the U.S. approves. Source link
Silicon Valley Tech Workers Are Campaigning to Get ICE Out of US Cities
The first Trump administration, and the tech industry that stood up to it, are both looking quainter by the day. Here’s one example: In 2017, when President Trump issued a series of…
How Old Will You Be When You Meet Your Soulmate? Choose 2010s Rom-Coms To Find Out!
I'm willing to bet that love is closer than you think... View Entire Post › Source link
Transcript: Trumpworld at War over ICE as MAGA Erupts: “Race Traitor!”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 30 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. A clip on Trumpworld sinking into finger-pointing is here. Greg…
Swatch flags positive sales momentum, lifting shares
Swatch Group said on Friday (Jan 30) its sales momentum was picking up in the last quarter of 2025 and into 2026, sending its shares up over 7 per cent despite its full-year…
“An Ark” Imagines the Afterlife; “Data” Imagines a Corporate Hell
There will be future applications of “mixed reality,” I’m sure, and I hope they work with funkier material. Personally, I’d rather get clobbered by holographic McKellens than be told not…
Dream of owning a flying car? This California company is already selling them
A future with flying cars is no longer science fiction — all you need to order your own is about $200,000 and some hope and patience. The Palo Alto-based company Pivotal has been…
In “Pillion,” Gay B.D.S.M. Passions Edge Toward Dom-Com
Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the bleak novel it’s based on. Source link
Jane Birkin and the Art of Authenticity
She was refreshingly unique, in a way that’s difficult to approximate today. She did not formulate her image to maximize clicks and likes and engagement. Yet, however much of Birkin’s…
A Century of Life in the City, at the Movies
The Australian singer-songwriter Hatchie has steadily built a little dream-pop world suspended between the synth music of Kylie Minogue and the washed-out guitars of the Cocteau Twins.…
What Bari Weiss Doesn’t Get About CBS News
The Free Press, the site she soon built in her own image, catered to people who agreed with her and who believed, preposterously, that the Times was too hard on Israel and too soft on…
Trump’s First National Bank of Scams Is Coming
Why does World Liberty Financial want a trust bank? Because the GENIUS Act passed last July subjected fintech to various options for regulatory oversight, of which the least burdensome is…
Netflix’s Conquest of Hollywood is Complete
As is the case with so many tech platforms, Netflix has simply re-created twentieth-century technology for the digital age, and made it worse. In truth, Netflix is a global television…