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Singapore stocks snap 5-day winning streak on Tuesday; STI down 0.1%
Local stocks closed lower on Tuesday (Jun 10), ending five straight days of gains amid concerns that the US-China trade talks may not be…
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Asia: Markets extend gains as China-US talks head into second day
Asian stocks squeezed out more gains on Tuesday as the latest round of China-US trade talks moved into a second day, with one of Donald…
Politics
Judge rules Trump's 'Alien Enemies' deportations illegal
A federal judge ruled Monday that President Trump's proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportation of Venezuelan gang…
Business
S&P downgrades Warner Bros bonds deeper into junk status
S&P Global Ratings cut Warner Bros Discovery’s unsecured bond ratings deeper into junk status after the media company announced it was…
News
How Addison Rae Went from TikTok to the Pop Charts
In 2021, the TikTok star Addison Rae released her début single, “Obsessed.” It’s a whispery electro-pop tune about either unapologetic…
Politics
President Trump Has Legal Authority to Suppress the Siege in L.A.
The explicit purpose of the rioting and mayhem is to thwart the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Source link
Politics
Trump to highlight $1,000 'Trump Accounts' for newborns
President Trump on Monday will highlight his so-called "Trump Accounts," which would create $1,000 investment accounts for all newborn…
Business
Barclays cuts more than 200 investment bank jobs to reduce costs
Barclays is preparing to cut more than 200 jobs in its investment bank in the coming days as part of chief executive officer CS…
Business
Shareholders to vote on Great Eastern delisting on Jul 8
Independent directors of Great Eastern Holdings (GEH) are recommending for shareholders to accept OCBC’s conditional exit offer that will…
News
“Materialists” Is a Thoughtful Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Quite Add Up
The work of the Korean Canadian filmmaker Celine Song is modest in scope and intimate in feel, but listen closely to her words—to say…
Politics
How Republicans Can Make the Tax Bill More Pro-Growth
They should insist on making full expensing for capital investment permanent for all businesses. Source link
News
The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age
How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and…
News
What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?
“Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of…
News
Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See”
Animals displaying human behaviors are often the stuff of fables, intent on communicating moral lessons. But in this work, by the Japanese…
Business
Xiaohongshu joins wave of Chinese firms releasing open-source AI models
Xiaohongshu, also known as Rednote, one of the country’s most popular social media platforms, has released an open-source large language…
Business
MoneyHero expands into digital assets in partnership with OSL
This is to satisfy Hong Kong’s growing interest in digital assets and increasing demand for diversified financial solutions MoneyHero…
Business
Goldman CIO service suddenly catches on in Japan after 10 years
It took more than a decade of trying, but Goldman Sachs last year landed the first client for its business of helping institutions manage…
Politics
Judge allows Trump's firings at Corporation for Public Broadcasting
A federal judge on Sunday shot down a demand for reinstatement by three members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting whom President…
News
After tear gas and street fires, a Los Angeles community cleans up as National Guard troops arrive
Ernest Melendrez woke up early Sunday to shovel tear gas pellets and other charred and broken detritus from his neighborhood's streets,…
Business
Chinese managers take reins at TikTok Shop in US as sales miss goal
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has been replacing US-hired staff near Seattle with managers connected to China, aiming to replicate…
Business
ECB’s Schnabel says now is right time to boost role of euro
European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel sees a favourable moment now to strengthen the euro’s global role as…
Politics
Pete Buttigieg Doesn’t Have a Time Machine
It means little that he can half-heartedly break from aspects of the Democratic Party’s record that he now realizes are controversial.…
Politics
The Reporting on the Gaza War Is Fundamentally Broken
‘Colonizer’ bad. ‘Colonized’ good. This worldview has warped coverage to an alarming degree. Source link