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PayPal raises earnings guidance after announcing OpenAI deal
PayPal Holdings raised its full-year earnings guidance and announced a tie-up with OpenAI to embed its digital wallet into ChatGPT,…
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UPS stuns Wall Street with strong profit and 34,000 job cuts
United Parcel Service (UPS) smashed Wall Street’s third-quarter profit expectations, sending its shares soaring and fuelling confidence in…
Business
Mapletree Logistics Trust Q2 DPU falls to S$0.01815
The manager of Mapletree Logistics Trust (MLT) announced a distribution per unit (DPU) of S$0.01815 for the trust’s second quarter ended…
Business
Bank of China delivers 5% gain in profit as margin stabilises
Bank of China reported a 5 per cent increase in third-quarter profit, as the lender managed to stabilise its net interest margin despite…
Business
New AI lab focused on energy efficiency launched by Univers with Microsoft, AMD, NUS as partners
Resource and carbon management solution provider will bring in its AI and IoT solutions, and oversee the delivery of all projects A new…
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Milei’s Triumph
His party’s over-performance in Argentina’s midterm elections provides a boost to his free market reforms. Source link
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Will Trump’s FTC Rein In Lina Khan’s Abuses?
The consumer welfare standard should once again guide the commission’s work. Source link
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We Need the Pro-Life Old Guard
The sidelining of pro-life intellectuals has contributed to Trump’s weakening pro-life position, including the new push for IVF. Source link
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As New Dietary Guidelines Loom, It’s Time to Flip the Food Pyramid
South Park had it right. Source link
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Mamdani’s Islamophobia Canard
If this is what Islamophobia looks like, everyone should welcome having some sectarian hatred directed their way. Source link
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“Blood Relatives,” Episode 1
On August 7, 1985, five family members were shot dead in their English country manor, Whitehouse Farm. It looked like an open-and-shut…
Culture
“Blood Relatives,” Episode 4
A bloody Bible, propped at an unlikely angle. A manor, locked from the inside. And a silencer, hidden under the stairs, and daubed with…
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“Blood Relatives,” Episode 3
One day, Heidi gets a call from Wakefield Prison, where Jeremy Bamber remains locked up, forty years after the murders. He’s one of the…
Culture
“Blood Relatives,” Episode 5
A puzzling clue leads Heidi to a new witness. His story about a phone call made from inside Whitehouse Farm on the morning of the crime…
News
“Blood Relatives,” Episode 2
Heidi visits an unlikely group of detectives: the victims’ extended family. Their sleuthing upended the police’s original theory of the…
Culture
“Blood Relatives,” Episode 6
Jeremy Bamber has a new opportunity to clear his name. But will the British justice system acknowledge that it might have gotten this…
Business
Singapore stocks rise as markets cheer US-China trade truce; STI up 0.2%
Across the broader market, losers outnumber gainers 313 to 292, after 1.8 billion securities worth S$1.8 billion change hands Local stocks…
Fashion
Marina Bay Sands fined S$315,000 for 2023 data breach
IMDA notes the failure to take reasonable security measures during a software migration exercise, among other faults The Personal Data…
Fashion
France, Singapore to deepen tech partnership as ‘third way’: French ambassador
Amid rising tensions between US and China, other countries need to work together to prevent over-reliance, says ambassador Stephen…
Business
First Sponsor posts 1.3% rise in Europe portfolio Q3 operating income, lacklustre China property development sales
China property development projects’ pre-sales and sales show ‘no meaningful improvement’ as weak market sentiment persists Property…
Business
Only 18% of investors rate SGX listcos’ disclosures as ‘very transparent’ despite quarterly engagements: study
Research by Stewardship Asia Centre also highlights a disconnect between investors and corporates on key priorities Transparency has…
News
Hong Kong runway resumes operations after fatal plane crash
The Hong Kong airport runway involved in a deadly plane crash has restarted operations, authorities said on Tuesday (Oct 28), just over a…
Business
Singapore's Lighthouse Canton to invest over US$1.5b in India; eyes private credit, real estate
Singapore-based asset manager Lighthouse Canton plans to invest over US$1.5 billion in India in the next few years, with a focus on…
Business
HSBC is bullish on 2025 despite hit from Madoff provision
HSBC Holdings raised its profitability outlook for 2025 even as earnings slid following an unexpected US$1.1 billion provision tied to…