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Keppel shares hit 6-year high on H1 earnings growth, share buyback and asset divestment plans
Shares of Keppel rose on Thursday (Jul 31) morning after the asset manager posted a 24.2 per cent rise in H1 earnings, a S$500 million…
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MrBeast Becomes First YouTuber to Hit 400 Million Subscribers, Gets Custom Play Button
Jimmy Donaldson, widely known as MrBeast, has reached a historic milestone by becoming the first individual YouTuber to surpass 400…
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P&G estimates US$1 billion tariff hit, plans some US price hikes
Procter & Gamble executives projected a US$1 billion hit from US tariffs over the next year on Tuesday as the consumer products giant said…
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74% of evacuated Israelis return to North, but heavier hit towns remain empty - IDF
Part of the increase is from IDF having Hezbollah on the run since the November 2024 ceasefire, with no Hezbollah forces in southern…
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Tariffs hit Inchcape’s Asia-Pacific sales, shares drop 10%
British car distributor Inchcape reported weaker first-half results on Tuesday (Jul 29) as US tariffs dampened demand for high-end…
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US: S&P 500, Nasdaq hit new records despite big Tesla drop
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq edged up to fresh records on Thursday while the Dow retreated following a mixed round of corporate earnings that…
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Chinese hackers exploit Microsoft flaws, US nuclear agency hit
Microsoft warned that Chinese state-sponsored hackers are among those exploiting flaws in its SharePoint software to break into…
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GM Q2 Profit Drops 32% Amid Tariff Pressure, Warns of Bigger Hit Ahead
General Motors (GM) reported a sharp 32% decline in second-quarter core profit on Tuesday, attributing the drop largely to escalating…
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Forgotten 'weeds' prove a culinary hit in Kenya
Once dismissed as wild weeds and a "poor man's food", indigenous leafy vegetables in Kenya are now becoming much more common - grown on…
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Microsoft server hack hit about 100 organisations, researchers say
[WASHINGTON/LONDON] A sweeping cyber espionage operation targeting Microsoft server software compromised about 100 organisations as of the…
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EY Report Says Italy’s GDP Could Fall 1.4 Percent If U.S. Tariffs Hit 30 Percent
MILAN – There are still a lot of ifs, but failure to negotiate U.S. President Donald Trump‘s 30 percent tariffs on European goods by the…
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Felix Baumgartner: Daredevil Skydiver Died Before He Hit the Ground as He Plummeted on a Woman and His Paraglider Smashed into a Hotel Pool
Extreme sports athlete Felix Baumgartner is believed to have died after reportedly blacking out during a paragliding flight in Italy. The…
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Citigroup shares hit highest since 2008 after profit beat, buyback plan
Citigroup’s shares briefly touched their highest since the 2008 financial crisis after the bank beat Wall Street estimates for…
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Man Dies in Freak Accident After Helicopter Strikes Bird, Causing it to Ricochet into Cabin and Fatally Hit Passenger
A man has died after a helicopter he was travelling in collided with a bird, during a flight in Australia's Northern Territory. The…
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Singapore shares hit new high; STI up 0.5%
Across the broader market, advancers beat decliners 315 to 191 after 1.5 billion securities worth S$1.4 billion change hands The benchmark…
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BOJ finds US tariff hit to exports limited for now
The impact on Japan’s output and exports from US tariffs is limited for the time being but many companies are worried about the risk of…
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BOJ will hold off rate hikes until March due to US tariff hit, ex-policymaker says
The Bank of Japan will likely hold off raising interest rates again until at least next March to assess the damage that US tariffs could…
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SpaceX valuation to hit around US$400 billion in share sale
SpaceX is discussing plans to raise money and sell insider shares in a deal that would value Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker at…
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ExxonMobil sees US$1.5 billion earnings hit from lower oil, gas prices
US President Donald Trump’s trade war and larger-than-expected supply increases from Opec and its allies weighed on oil prices, while US…
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Ship hit in Red Sea as Israel strikes Houthi-controlled ports
Multiple small vessels attacked a ship in the Red Sea near Yemen’s Al Hudaydah port, causing a fire on board and prompting the crew to…
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Google’s AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers
Alphabet’s Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers, which has also…
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As US stocks hit records, experts see the dollar falling further
While the US stock market has fully recovered from a spring rout, the relentless drop in the dollar is prompting currency experts to warn…
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Qantas says hit by ‘significant’ cyberattack
Australian airline Qantas said on Wednesday it was investigating a “significant” cyberattack, after hackers infiltrated a system…
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Google hit with US$314 million US verdict in cellular data class action
A JURY in San Jose, California, said on Tuesday that Google misused customers’ cell phone data and must pay more than US$314.6 million to…