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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…
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Citigroup to tie up with Coinbase to boost digital payments for institutional clients
Citigroup and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase plan to collaborate on digital asset payment solutions for the US bank’s institutional…
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Sunseap founder’s firm teams up with Chinese nuclear giant on Indonesian solar import project
Frank Phuan’s Equator Renewables Asia is set to import clean power from the Riau Islands into Singapore Equator Renewables Asia – a new…
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Roger Vivier Is Coming Up Roses for Holiday
FLOWER POWER: Roger Vivier is making good use of its new Paris headquarters, located in a lavish 18th-century mansion in…
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Tiffany & Co.’s Anthony Ledru Focuses on Consistency Through Heritage, Propelling the Brand Forward
Since joining Tiffany & Co. in 2021 following the company’s acquisition by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, president and chief executive…
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Tapestry: WWD Honoree for Public Company of the Year
When Joanne Crevoiserat, chief executive officer of Tapestry Inc., turned in fiscal 2025 results in August, there was a lot of good news…
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Asia: Markets cool as Trump begins Japan visit
The buoyant mood has been defying tumultuous trade tensions between Beijing and Washington Asian markets opened slightly cooler on Tuesday…
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Philippine banks to lead profit growth among regional peers
Philippine banks, helped by robust loans, are poised to deliver the highest net interest income growth among South-east Asian lenders this…
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Singapore court orders Ron Sim’s LAC to return GNC stores, pay US$18.9 million in franchise dispute
The court finds that LAC had wrongfully terminated its agreement after ‘secretly’ preparing to rebrand all of the US health supplement…
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Singapore drafts framework for cross-border trade of renewable energy certificates within Asean
The framework aims to help countries standardise their approaches for the tracking and accounting of cross-border RECs Singapore, along…
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Seatrium bags S$170 million worth of new contract wins ahead of Q3 results
Seatrium on Tuesday (Oct 28) announced that it has clinched S$170 million worth of new repair and upgrade contracts comprising major…
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‘The Pitt’ Has Inspired More Organ Donation and End-of-Life Planning, According to USC Norman Lear Center Study
After just one season, Emmy-winning drama “The Pitt” is already having an impact on healthcare conversations. That’s the finding from a…
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Keppel Infrastructure Trust 9-month distributable income up 59.2% at S$168.9 million on divestment gains
Keppel Infrastructure Trust on Tuesday (Oct 28) reported a distributable income of S$168.9 million for its first nine months of 2025, up…
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Keppel Infrastructure Trust 9M distributable income up 59.2% at S$168.9 million on divestment gains
Keppel Infrastructure Trust on Tuesday (Oct 28) reported a distributable income of S$168.9 million for its first nine months of 2025, up…
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‘Rhizome’ Explores Legacy of Laos Secret War at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market
A new feature film examining the buried trauma of America’s “Secret War” in Laos is seeking co-producers and sales agents at the Tokyo…
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Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts: sources
The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10 per cent of its roughly 350,000 corporate…
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Prince Andrew hosted Epstein, Maxwell and Weinstein at Royal Lodge
Joe PikePolitics investigations correspondent Prince Andrew hosted Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein at Royal Lodge,…
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Amazon Plans Massive Layoffs After Nine Months of President Trump
“Republicans’ reckless decisions are causing prices on everything to go up, from groceries to gas—Wisconsinites cannot afford to pay even…
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Elisabetta Franchi CEO Gabriele Maggio Exits Company
MAGGIO EXITS: More changes are taking place at the Elisabetta Franchi fashion company. Chief executive officer Gabriele Maggio has exited…
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Leaders from Box, Meta, and LinkedIn on how AI is reshaping the future of work
AI is radically changing the future of the workplace — from redefining jobs to fueling the rise of so-called “work slop.” Live on stage at…
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Qualcomm to take on Nvidia with its own AI chips
Qualcomm on Monday announced the release of a new series of artificial intelligence chips to compete with the market leader Nvidia, as the…
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Grindr receives buyout offer to take dating app private
Grindr, the publicly-traded company behind the popular dating and social networking app for LGBTQ people, is closer to becoming private.…
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Markets are soaring today—with this exception. Here’s why these stocks are dropping double digits
Rare earth stocks find themselves underground on Monday as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he expects that China and the U.S. will…