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Coffee prices surge to highest since 1997 on supply fears
COFFEE futures in New York climbed to the highest since 1997 on worries about crops in top growers, threatening to further raise costs for…
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Elon Musk Finally Admits He’s Using X to Censor News Articles
Elon Musk admitted that X (formerly Twitter) is throttling link-based posts, essentially stifling news articles on the social media…
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Trump’s Border Czar Issues Terrifying Threat to Democratic States
“If you have a governor who says, ‘I’m not gonna cooperate, I’m gonna block you,’ well then, federal funds should be slashed to that…
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Macy's delays Q3 report on accounting issue, expects weaker sales
Macy’s on Monday (Nov 25) delayed the publication of its third-quarter results due to an accounting issue tied to delivery expenses and…
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MTG Names First Targets for DOGE Subcommittee in Deranged Interview
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, right-wing grifter and loyal Trump attack dog, appeared on Fox News on Sunday to lay out her vision…
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Here’s How Much Trump’s Extreme Transgender Ban Would Damage Military
“America will decline and die. A national divorce will ensue. Outnumbered freedom lovers will fight back,” Hegseth writes. “The military…
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Sats unit to shed stake in Saudi Arabia subsidiary for S$52.6 million
IN-FLIGHT caterer and ground handler Sats intends to divest 49 per cent of its interest in its Saudi Arabia cargo-handling subsidiary for…
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Transcript: Trump Allies Trade Insults as His Latest Pick Rattles MAGA
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 25 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Thai banking system has large excess liquidity: central bank
THAILAND’S banking system has large excess liquidity and the central bank has not tightened its lending supervision, an assistant governor…
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Pete Hegseth Is the Perfect Trumpworld Monster
The last time I saw Hegseth was in 2019. We were friendly from having crossed paths in cable news greenrooms over the years, and I was…
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Could New York Fight Fascism with Climate Policy?
It’s fitting that NYPA was founded by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1931, as Americans—and people worldwide—were struggling for…
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How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World
The second major turn is the neoconservatives’ fashioning of this new concern about the campus into a moral panic over “political…
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Time for Democrats to Get Out of the Bipartisanship Business
The problem, of course, is that the rug-pull always arrives too late for the conned to prevent. While we are waiting for these bills to…
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The Smarter Anti-Trump Resistance: More Facts, Less Outrage
I’ll get to that, but first, an admission: I confess I’ve been mystified by this lack of alarm. I’ve said and written many times that I…
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HSBC sustainability chief leaves after executive committee role dropped
HSBC’s chief sustainability officer, Celine Herweijer, has stepped down, the bank said on Monday (Nov 25), weeks after a management…
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Trump Allies Rage at Each Other as Latest Pick Too Nutty Even for MAGA
Donald Trump’s top allies are already furiously at war with each other over the transition, according to The Washington Post. Meanwhile,…
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Europe: STOXX 600 hits two-week high
Europe’s main stock index opened at a two-week high on Monday (Nov 25), boosted by US President-elect Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary…
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UK regulator fines Barclays £40 million over disclosures related to Qatar dealings
BRITAIN’S financial regulator said on Monday (Nov 25) it had fined Barclays £40 million (S$68 million) in total for its failure to…
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Singapore Gulf Bank to raise funds, buy stablecoin payments firm
SINGAPORE Gulf Bank is seeking to raise at least US$50 million in a funding round and plans to acquire a stablecoin payments company next…
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Mr DIY Indonesian business plans IPO to raise up to 4.7 trillion rupiah
THE Indonesian sister company of Mr DIY Group (M) Bhd will list shares in Jakarta through an initial public offering (IPO) that seeks to…
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Swatch wins Malaysia suit over pride watch raid: report
SWISS watchmaker Swatch Group has won its lawsuit against the Malaysian government over last year’s controversial seizure of its…
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Brokers’ take: RHB ‘overweight’ on Singapore banking sector
RHB on Monday (Nov 25) upgraded its call on Singapore’s banking sector to “overweight” from “neutral” in September, as it made a “buy”…
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Brokers’ take: Maybank initiates SingPost at ‘buy’ with S$0.74 target price
MAYBANK Securities has initiated coverage on Singapore Post (SingPost) with a “buy” call and a S$0.74 target price after applying a 15 per…
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China keeps policy loan rate unchanged for second month
CHINA’S central bank kept a policy loan rate unchanged after last cutting it in September, as the authorities stay patient in ramping up…