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India says ‘no’ to BYD while wooing rival Tesla to invest
With a 100 per cent duty on fully built vehicles – by far the highest among major economies – the country has long shielded domestic…
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Binance founder Zhao to help Pakistan boost crypto trading bid
Crypto trading is steadily gaining traction among Pakistan’s 230-million population despite its central bank’s warning over the risks…
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Fed’s Goolsbee says there’s a lot of anxiety over tariffs
CHICAGO Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee on Monday said businesses are anxious about US President Donald Trump’s tariffs but…
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Businesses anxious over tariffs, Fed must look at ‘hard data’ in policy response: official
CHICAGO Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee said that businesses are anxious about US President Donald Trump’s tariffs but that…
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Chinese shipping earnings face ‘harder-than-expected’ tariff hit as recession risks rise
Chinese shippers may see an outsized hit on earnings as the latest tariffs from US President Donald Trump risk hammering global trade.…
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Levi maintains 2025 outlook in face of tariff turbulence
Levi Strauss maintained a full-year outlook that excludes the impact from sweeping new US tariffs that are poised to significantly raise…
Business
Tesla shares drop amid auto tariffs and 'brand crisis'
Tesla shares took a hit Monday after a leading analyst slashed his price target by more than 40%, citing a “perfect storm” created by…
Culture
Leicester vs Newcastle Live Streaming: How to Watch the Premier League Match Online in the US, UK and India
Eddie Howe's Newcastle have a chance to break into the Premier League's top four with a victory over a struggling Leicester City side on…
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Trump Threatens China with Additional 50% Tariffs if Beijing Does Not Roll Back Its 34% Retaliatory Tariffs Amid Global Market Meltdown
President Trump warned China that he would impose an extra 50% tariff if Beijing fails to cut down its 34% retaliatory tariff on U.S.…
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EU Proposes 'Zero-for-Zero' Tariff Policy to Remove Industrial Fees on US Goods after Trump's Tariff Blitzkrieg Rattles Stock Markets
The European Union has proposed a "zero-for-zero" tariff agreement to the Trump administration, following the 20% import tariffs that…
Culture
In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning
The scariest unknown for women with cancer, after the disease itself, can be their husbands—a staggering number of whom abandon their…
Business
DBS’, Bank of China’s printing vendor hit by ransomware attack; more than 11,000 customers affected
About 8,200 customers of DBS Bank – as well as 3,000 from the Bank of China’s Singapore branch – have had their customer information…
Business
Tesla shares plunge below Lutnick’s ‘never this cheap’ level
Tesla’s stock extended losses on Monday (Apr 7), dropping below a price at which Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predicted they’d never…
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US: Wall St opens sharply lower, S&P 500 nears bear market territory
Wall Street’s main indexes opened sharply lower on Monday (Apr 7), with the S&P 500 on track to confirm bear market territory, as…
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Exxon CEO Woods compensation rose 19% in 2024
Woods’ pay package is about 231 times the average compensation of US$190,266 received by the oil major’s workers ExxonMobil CEO Darren…
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Thakral clarifies IPO rumours on associate GemLife; says ‘no certainty’ that any transaction will proceed
Thakral Corp clarified rumours that its associate GemLife, a resort-living developer in Australia, is gearing up for an initial public…
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Singapore shares close lower on Monday; STI tumbles 7.5%
Across the broader market, decliners outnumber advancers 612 to 137, with 2.7 billion shares worth S$4.2 billion changing hands All 30…
Culture
Environmentalists Are Rethinking Nuclear. Should They?
Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion. Source link
Culture
It’s a Typical Small-Town Novel. Except for the Nazis
We know this kind of novel. Reliable as the seasons, its opening pages disclose a familiar reality. A hovering, Godlike narrator looks…
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James C. Scott and the Art of Resistance
“In Praise of Floods” (Yale), a study of rivers by the late political scientist James C. Scott, arrives after a year of catastrophic…
Culture
Richard McGuire’s “Zooming In”
For the cover of the April 14, 2025, Innovation & Tech Issue, the artist Richard McGuire offers an image that calls back to the halcyon…
Culture
The Evolution of a Folk-Punk Hero
Patrick Schneeweis was never the voice of a generation, but perhaps he was the voice of a tendency. To a small but fervent and far-flung…
Business
Credit gauges in Asia show most concern since early pandemic
Credit-default swaps in Asia blew out the most since the worsening of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, as a rout in risk assets deepened…