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Volkswagen drops to third in China sales as fast-growing Geely Auto pips it
Legacy foreign carmakers such as Volkswagen have ceded share to Chinese rivals due to a slower shift to EVs Volkswagen was overtaken by…
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Petronas seeks court clarity on Sarawak operations in gas licensing dispute
Malaysia’s state energy company Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) said on Monday (Jan 12) it has filed a motion at the country’s top…
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Transcript: Trump Explodes at GOPers as Defiance of Him Visibly Grows
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 12 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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JPMorgan forecasts 2027 Fed hike; Barclays, Goldman postpone rate cut calls
Data suggests the labour market is holding, aiding belief that the Fed will leave borrowing costs unchanged at its January meeting…
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Not another dotcom bubble: DBS CIO doubles down on AI, healthcare
Hou Wey Fook is confident that AI-related optimism is based on sound fundamentals The so-called “artificial intelligence (AI) bubble”,…
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Generation X’s Lessons For the Second Trump Era
A military incursion into Latin America. A war to control another country’s oil. A corrupt administration engineering spectacle (“We want…
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The Only Time Trump Makes News Is When He Tells the Truth
Indeed, as Kessler noted in his final Fact Check column, fact-checking is in retreat everywhere. Meta ended its fact-checking program…
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Which City Will Donald Trump Bomb First: Tehran—or Minneapolis?
It’s worth asking how things came to this. We’ve done a lot of terrible things over the decades—installed dictators who imprisoned and…
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British Land CEO Carter set to leave to lead GIC-backed P3 Logistics
British Land CEO Simon Carter plans to step down this year to join European logistics developer P3 Logistics Parks, the real estate group…
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Thomson Medical appoints Tong Kooi Ong as board chairman
The Malaysian businessman succeeds Ng Ser Miang, who steps down on Jan 31 after a decade Mainboard-listed Thomson Medical Group has…
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Trump’s Rage Explodes at GOPers as Their Defiance of Him Visibly Grows
The other day, five Senate Republicans helped pass a measure blocking President Trump’s authority to wage war in Venezuela without…
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UBS rejects proposed Swiss bank rules, moots less costly alternatives
The lender warns the proposal would add huge costs and threaten the continuation of its successful business model UBS on Monday (Jan 12)…
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South Korea makes checks on increasing US dollar deposits as won falls
South Korean authorities summoned seven local banks last week to question them about increasing US dollar deposits, officials and bank…
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The Red-State City That’s Doing Immigration Right
Some of these young women—part of a corps of thousands of young Mormons on assignment around the world, including the church’s own…
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The Case for Impeaching Donald Trump
Bombs over Latin America: It’s giving Wag the Dog, if you ask me. The administration, seemingly hot to bring back neoconservative military…
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Stellantis scraps US plug-in hybrid sales, citing weak demand
The automaker’s pullback comes as Detroit carmakers reassess electric-vehicle spending amid policy changes under US President Donald Trump…
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OpenAI, SoftBank invest US$1 billion in SB Energy as Stargate buildout expands
The data centre construction boom has also prompted major players, including Meta Platforms OpenAI and SoftBank Group will invest US$500…
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Apple shares on pace to match longest losing streak since 1991
The company and other computer and device makers have been under pressure from rising prices for components such as memory chips Apple…
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ExxonMobil calls Venezuela ‘uninvestable’ as Trump pushes oil plan
Low prices are viewed warily within the oil industry, which the US president is counting on to keep pumping crude Major US oil executives…
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China buys at least 10 cargoes of US soybeans for April-May shipment, traders say
China’s state stockpiler Sinograin purchased at least 10 cargoes of US soybeans on Friday (Jan 9), or at least 600,000 tonnes, for…
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Trafigura readies first Venezuelan oil ship as part of mega sale
Traders have been notifying US refiners to gauge interest for the oil, with sales expected to kick off on Monday Commodities trader…
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Oil gains as market weighs Iran, Russia supply risks; dealmaking for Venezuela in focus
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped 28.4 million barrels per day last month Oil prices rose 2 per cent on Friday…
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Europe stocks close at record as Glencore jumps on Rio Tinto interest
Technology stocks led the advance in the Stoxx 600 on the day and logged their best week in nearly two years European shares ended on…
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Trump, 79, Accidentally Reads Marco Rubio’s Private Note Out Loud
Donald Trump humiliated himself Friday when Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to slyly pass him a note during a meeting with oil…