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EXCLUSIVE: Louis Vuitton’s Chengdu Pop-up Spotlights Local Culture, Includes New Fragrance Launch
After Shanghai and Beijing, Louis Vuitton has landed in Chengdu with pop-up experiences that span retail, fragrance and hospitality. To…
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Nintendo aims to make 25 million Switch 2 units by end of March
NINTENDO has asked suppliers to produce as many as 25 million units of the Switch 2 by the end of March 2026, setting the company up for…
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MAS launches initiative to enable settlement of tokenised bank liabilities, well-regulated stablecoins
The BLOOM initivate builds upon the authority’s earlier efforts under Project Orchid The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Thursday…
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CapitaLand Investment’s Ascott signs seven new properties in Austria and Spain
The new signings bring its European portfolio to 64 properties and almost 8,500 units Real estate asset manager CapitaLand Investment’s…
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Stocks to watch: Keppel, CapitaLand Investment, Keppel Reit
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Friday (Oct 17): Keppel: The global asset…
Business
Fed’s Kashkari: Economy may not be slowing as much as we think
MINNEAPOLIS Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said on Thursday he does not think that there is a big chance the labour market will…
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‘Good riddance’: Fed clash over scrapping climate risk guidance
RUMBLING discontent over the US Federal Reserve’s guidance on climate change policies spilled into the open on Thursday, when the central…
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Spain probing Mango founder’s death as homicide: media
SPANISH police are investigating the sudden death of the Mango clothing empire’s founder Isak Andic as a possible homicide, with his son…
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At least 4 in 5 tech talents could face limited opportunities as job market cools
However, the lower demand for traditional tech jobs contrasts a surge in demand for talent with AI skills Industry watchers warn that at…
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Bank of Japan chief signals need for more data in deciding October move
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday the central bank will scrutinise various data, including information he collects during…
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US stocks pulled lower by financials; gold hits record highs
Wall Street stocks ended lower while gold prices surged on Thursday as declining financial shares and simmering trade tensions between the…
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Nike, Adidas + More Athletic Brands: How Does Their Digital Experience Measure Up?
Athletic brands such as Nike and Adidas have a digital challenge. According to Catchpoint, which compiled a Digital Experience Score…
Business
How Doing Good Teaches Students Entrepreneurship
In the next decade, nearly 40% of the skills required for jobs are expected to change, according to the World Economic Forum’s Future of…
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Taylor Swift’s Vintage Otter T-shirt Went Viral — Now It’s Helping Real Sea Otters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is benefiting from the Taylor Swift effect. The singer was seen wearing a vintage T-shirt from the aquarium…
Business
The Trump Economy Is Here, and It’s So Much Worse Than Biden’s
But as long the Fed keeps giving Trump and his investor-class cronies the interest rate cuts they’ve have been clamoring for—one last…
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HSBC not exposed to the collapse of scandal-hit First Brands Group
HSBC Holdings is not exposed to the collapse of scandal-hit auto-parts supplier First Brands Group, whose bankruptcy has left some of the…
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Salesforce jumps as US$60 billion forecast eases revenue growth concerns
Salesforce shares jumped more than 6 per cent in premarket trading on Thursday (Oct 16). This is after the company forecasted faster…
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Queen Camilla Reimagines Royal Wardrobe Staples for Westminster Abbey Outing
Queen Camilla took a mostly monochrome approach to her attire, wearing a reworn Anna Valentine emerald-green dress with matching…
Business
US: Wall St rises with TSMC results supporting renewed AI optimism
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Thursday (Oct 16), driven by an upbeat quarterly update from TSMC that added to investor…
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Kenya police fire tear gas to disperse crowds at stadium to view body of ex-PM Odinga
Kenyan police have fired tear gas at huge crowds of mourners who had gathered at a stadium in the capital, Nairobi, to view the body of…
Business
GDS aims to raise over US$1 billion for international unit DayOne: sources
GDS is aiming to build up DayOne into an independently run and separately listed unit in the mid to long term GDS Holdings, one of China’s…
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Chinese data centre firm GDS aims to raise over US$1 billion for international unit DayOne: sources
GDS is aiming to build up DayOne into an independently run and separately listed unit in the mid to long term GDS Holdings, one of China’s…
Business
Breaking Barriers: Faster, Smarter, More Reliable Embedded Software
A lithography machine is a highly sophisticated piece of equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing to print extremely small patterns…
Business
Why the Future of Cloud Security May Depend on Smarter Data Engineering
Across industries, the migration to the cloud has become both an inevitability and a gamble. The numbers speak for themselves. Oracle…