Swedan Margen
Swedan Margen contributes to L'Officiel Lifestyle with a focus on business and entrepreneurship.
Swedan covers business developments, emerging companies, entrepreneurial stories, and trends influencing industries and the broader economy.
The goal is to bring readers accessible coverage of business stories while highlighting developments, ideas, and opportunities shaping the marketplace.
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Australia shares hit lowest in over a month as RBA holds rates, signals caution
Australian shares finished at their lowest in more than a month on Tuesday (Nov 4) after the central bank left its key rate unchanged as…
WeRide is poised to raise HK$2.39 billion in Hong Kong listing
WeRide is set to raise HK$2.39 billion (S$402 million) from its Hong Kong share sale, according to sources familiar with the matter, as it…
Trump urges his NYC supporters to vote for Cuomo in mayoral race
President Trump called on his supporters in New York City Monday night to vote for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the president's onetime foe,…
New spotlight on massive scope of food stamp program spurs talk of crackdown on fraud
The threat of a lapse in funding for the nation's food stamp program has shone a spotlight on the staggering expansion of the nation's…
The Revolutionary Mood in America Is Getting Worse
What began as a sense of entitlement is becoming an omnidirectional resentment — of your country, of your government, of your neighbors.…
Sergio García Sánchez’s “Sudden Shower”
“I wanted to re-create the exact moment when passersby are caught in the rain,” the Spain-based artist Sergio García Sánchez said about…
India’s Bharti Airtel posts surge in quarterly profit as higher-paying users grow
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest mobile carrier by number of users, posted its sixth straight quarterly profit rise on Monday (Nov…
Trump says he won't attend Supreme Court hearing on his tariffs
President Trump reversed course Sunday, posting on social media that he won't attend Supreme Court arguments on Wednesday concerning legal…
Waymo killed KitKat. California neighborhood mourns a corner-store cat
San Francisco has been mourning the death of KitKat, a beloved corner-store cat who died after being struck by a Waymo robotaxi last week.…
At Ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley Still Sound Vital
In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute.…
A Bulgarian Novelist Explores What Dies When Your Father Does
That’s where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds. It’s always afternoon…
Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
Hamlet, to say the least, was in a similar pickle, and it’s almost comically appropriate that Hopkins’s memoir should be so…
The Surprising Endurance of Martha Stewart’s “Entertaining”
To most readers, this will seem like fantasy. To Stewart, it was a snapshot of real life. She grew up in a large, middle class Polish…
Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world
CHENNAI, India — Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically…
The Eighteen Letters Project
I realized that I didn’t want to just print out the letters and hand Hudson a stack of paper. I needed to find a bindery. The woman I…
Nearly half of Cat A COEs go to EVs, which account for 43% of new sales so far in 2025
They also made up 45.6% of Category A certificate of entitlement (COE) registrations in 9M 2025 The adoption rate of electric vehicles…
Meta opens flagship store in West Hollywood to showcase AI glasses, VR headsets
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, opened a new flagship store in Los Angeles where people can try out their smart…
Trump threatens 'guns-a-blazing' response to Nigeria over Christian attacks
President Trump threatened to send U.S. military to Nigeria and withhold foreign aid to the country if the government "continues to allow…
Exclusive: Heritage Reassigns Chief of Staff Following Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes Fallout
The conservative think tank’s executive vice president, Derrick Morgan, has been tapped to replace Ryan Neuhaus as chief of staff. Source…
Trump signals SNAP will be funded after judges rule contingency funds be used
President Trump said he's looking into whether he can legally fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after a federal judge…
November’s Elections Will Decide the Fate of Virginia’s Abortion Amendment
Removing safeguards to women’s health doesn’t advance their freedom — it puts them at risk. Source link
Welcome to the Disunited Kingdom
Immigration has strained Britain to its breaking point. Source link