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China’s top chipmaker SMIC plunges after projecting lower sales
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) plunged on Friday (May 9) after China’s leading chipmaker warned sales could…
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OCBC keeps 2025 guidance, but loan growth targets could be buffeted by headwinds: CEO Helen Wong
OCBC is keeping its financial targets for 2025, but noted that its loan growth guidance of a mid-single digit will likely see the most…
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Indonesia seeks to end rice imports this year as output jumps
Indonesia is set to stop importing rice this year for the first time in decades, thanks to surging production and stockpiles in one of the…
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Bain Capital to sell China data centre business likely valued at over US$4 billion: sources
US investment firm Bain Capital is seeking to sell the China business of data centre operator WinTriX DC Group, in a deal that could value…
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Frasers Property H1 profit rises 147.6% to S$142.2 million on tax reversal
Frasers Property posted a 147.6 per cent jump in net profit to S$142.2 million for the first half ended Mar 31, 2025, from S$57.4 million…
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Apple is developing specialised chips for glasses, new Macs and AI servers
Apple’s silicon design group is working on new chips that will serve as the brains for future devices, including its first smart glasses,…
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OCBC Q1 profit falls 5% to S$1.88 billion; beats expectations
OCBC’s net profit for the first quarter fell on lower net interest income and higher operating expenses. Net profit for the three months…
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Musk-Tied Investor Clashes With One of World’s Biggest Asset Managers
A prominent Silicon Valley investor is in a bitter dispute with his former employer, one of the world’s largest asset managers, accusing…
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US: Stocks rise after Trump announces UK trade deal
stocks finished firmly in the green on Thursday (May 8) after US President Donald Trump unveiled a “breakthrough” trade agreement with the…
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Kenneth Walker, 73, Journalist Who Bared Apartheid’s Brutality
Kenneth Walker, an Emmy Award-winning journalist whose reporting for the ABC News program “Nightline” helped bring the brutality of South…
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Vance Just Made Trump’s Dolls Comment Even Weirder
Vice President JD Vance has his own particularly bad explanation for Donald Trump’s already ridiculous way of dismissing the rising prices…
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How advisers can augment the board
ONE of the expected roles of the board of a company is to provide strategic guidance by drawing upon the diverse experience and expertise…
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U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Builds on Close Ties but Leaves Some Tariffs in Place
President Trump announced on Thursday that the United States intended to sign a trade deal with Britain that would bring the two nations…
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Trump Sacks FEMA Chief One Day After He Tried to Save the Agency
Prevost is seen as being to Francis’s right on LGBTQ issues. In 2013, shortly after assuming the papacy, Francis expressed openness toward…
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5 Takeaways From the U.S.-U.K. Trade Agreement
The United States and Britain announced on Thursday that they had reached a deal that would reduce tariffs on some imports, such as steel,…
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The Big Winner of Trump’s Much-Hyped Trade Deal Is ... Not the U.S.
Compounding the U.K.’s trade difficulties is Brexit, the U.K.’s spectacularly self-destructive decision to depart the European Union,…
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We Just Got a New Pope—and MAGA Is Already Losing Its Mind
Within just a few hours of white smoke rising out of the Vatican, MAGA is already fuming over the new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost was…
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Crypto Bill Stalls in the Senate as Democrats Balk
A first-of-its-kind bill to regulate parts of the cryptocurrency industry stalled in the Senate on Thursday, after Democrats blocked it…
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The Fed Could Be on Hold Until September, Economists Say
More than 20 times during a roughly 45-minute news conference on Wednesday, Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, referenced…
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Toyota Says Tariffs Will Erase $1.3 Billion in Profits in Just 2 Months
A year ago, the world’s biggest automaker was on a tear. American consumers were snapping up Toyota Motor’s hybrids, and a weak yen…
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Boy Accidentally Orders 70,000 Lollipops on Amazon. Panic Ensues.
On Sunday morning, as Holly LaFavers was preparing to go to church, a delivery worker dropped off a 25-pound box of lollipops in front of…
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Hope and Anxiety Share the Stage as Finance Titans Converge on L.A.
Beneath the grand chandeliers of the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, at rooftop bars and at private parties at…
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US: Wall St opens higher ahead of potential US-UK deal announcement
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Thursday (May 8) on news that the United States was on the verge of signing a trade agreement…
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Would You Buy Your Diamond Engagement Ring at Walmart?
Do you care where a diamond comes from? Historically, consumers didn’t have a choice. Natural diamonds were formed billions of years ago,…