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Trump Melts Down Over Fed Chair’s Dark Warning About Tariffs
Shortly after Trump announced Long as his pick to head the IRS, the committee was suddenly flush, taking in $137,000 in under three weeks…
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Business
AmEx profit rises on resilient card spending
Provisions for credit losses were US$1.2 billion in the quarter, compared with US$1.3 billion a year earlier American Express reported a 6…
Business
Chinese tea chain Chagee CEO becomes a billionaire after US$411 million US IPO
A 30-year-old Chinese entrepreneur has become an unlikely billionaire with the listing of his sprawling tea shop chain in the US, even as…
Politics
Transcript: Fiasco for Trump as Judge Threatens Contempt amid Poll Dip
A lot of people are really scared, honestly, that something has happened to him, that that’s why he’s not being made available to people…
Business
‘Fallacy’ to say OCBC does not know insurance business: board chairman
It will be a fallacy to say that OCBC does not know the insurance business, given that its insurance arm, Great Eastern Holdings (GEH),…
Politics
Hyundai to suspend EV production in South Korea due to slow demand, US tariffs
The suspension comes as EV orders from major markets have fallen sharply in April Hyundai Motor plans to temporarily suspend production of…
Business
Blackstone's Q1 profit beats on robust private equity, credit performance
Blackstone reported a higher-than-expected profit for the first quarter on Thursday (Apr 17), driven by proceeds from asset sales across…
Politics
The New Far-Right Coalition That’s Out to Destroy American Democracy
Part on-the-ground conversations, part sociological analysis, Money, Lies, and God is a convincing tour of the mutually reinforcing…
Politics
Trump’s Tariff Madness Is About One Thing: His Thirst for One-Man Rule
Last weekend, the administration excluded phones, chipmaking, and some computers from his tariffs. Then Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick…
News
How the Radical Right Captured the Culture
We’ve learned over the past eight years not so much that conservative content is more appealing, but that it is still trying to make an…
News
An Old Man Dying of Shame in a Red County
My neighbor explains: we live in code: at the center of Pride Month is the call-word DEMON. He has electrified his white picket fence. His…
News
Winter Song
White edges the branches of the morning tree. White crisscrosses the open grave, This unmarked field. At its border, A cicatrix of tracks…
Politics
The Common Thread Between Abrego Garcia and the EPA’s “Gold Bars”
The main connection between the Garcia case and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund case would seem to be the Trump administration’s…
Politics
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Threatens Contempt amid New Warning in Polls
Donald Trump’s illegal deportations are running into more trouble. A federal judge just declared there’s probable cause to find the…
Business
SIA launches joint fare products with All Nippon Airways on Singapore-Japan flights
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) will begin operating revenue-sharing flights between Singapore and Japan from…
News
Temu, Shein see US sales surge ahead of small parcel tariff
Online shopping giants Temu and Shein saw their sales rebound in March and April as US shoppers stockpiled products such as makeup brushes…
Business
Asia: Markets boosted by ‘Big Progress’ in Japan tariff talks
Tokyo led stocks higher on Thursday (Apr 17) as optimism over Japan-US trade talks offset Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell’s warning…
Business
Bank of Korea holds rate steady while citing big rise in downside risks
The Bank of Korea (BOK) kept its benchmark interest rate steady while citing a significant increase in downside risks to growth that have…
Business
Frasers Property Industrial enters JV to invest in A$600 million Aussie industrial portfolio
Frasers Property Industrial has entered into a capital partnership with an investment vehicle sponsored by Morgan Stanley Real Estate…
Business
Malaysia Airlines reports lower profit in 2024 amid operational challenges
Malaysia Airlines’ parent company Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG) reported a second consecutive annual profit in 2024, but it fell 93 per…
Business
Insurance Claims: The New AI Reality
The world of insurance claims is changing fast, and a big part of that change is artificial intelligence (AI). While some worry that AI…
Business
Olam to sell whole stake in port operator for US$175 million
Agribusiness giant Olam will dispose of its entire stake in port and logistics operator Arise P&L for a US$175 million consideration, as…
Business
CapitaLand Investment launches its first retail Reit in China with assets worth 2.8 billion yuan
CapitaLand Investment (CLI) announced on Thursday (Apr 17) that it intends to launch its first real estate investment trust (Reit) in…
Business
China stares down Boeing parts shortage as Comac stockpiles
China is hunkering down for a trade war winter without American-made jets and aircraft parts. With China banning Boeing jets as part of…