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“Horrifying”: Trump’s Weird, Confused Rant to Media as Markets Tanked
After President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from all over the globe, prompting the markets to implode, he took a question…
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Business
Europe: Shares in the red at open
European equities opened in the red on Friday (Apr 4), extending losses after US President Donald Trump’s tariff offensive sparked a...…
Business
Stocks Fall Further as Concern About Tariffs Deepens
Share prices fell sharply for a second day on Friday in Asia, and futures market trading indicated that American share prices might soon…
Business
Semiconductor, shipbuilding shares in Singapore slump on heat from Trump tariffs; glovemakers mixed
Stocks in certain industries listed in Singapore suffered hits of varying severity on Friday (Apr 4) following US President Donald Trump’s…
Business
Semiconductor, shipbuilding stocks suffer heavy losses in SGX bloodbath
Chipmaking and shipbuilding shares dived up to 8 per cent in early trade on Friday (Apr 4) following US President Donald Trump’s…
Business
FDA Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced wide-ranging cutbacks at federal health agencies, including the Food and Drug…
News
E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, for breaking a landmark law to…
Politics
Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Legal Rationale for Tariffs on China
The New Civil Liberties Alliance — a nonprofit group that describes itself as battling “violations by the administrative state” — sued the…
Politics
Singapore’s STI drops 1.5%; Asia markets extend declines on Trump tariff troubles
Singapore equities began Friday (Apr 4) in negative territory, following the slump in all three major Wall Street indices and European…
News
Singapore’s STI drops 2.6%; Asia markets extend declines on Trump tariff troubles
Singapore equities began Friday (Apr 4) in negative territory, following the slump in all three major Wall Street indices and European…
Business
Far East Orchard acquires Manchester purpose-built student accommodation site for £10.9 million
Far East Orchard announced on Thursday (Apr 3) that it will be acquiring a purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) site in Manchester,…
Politics
Grocery Shoppers Will Feel the Tariffs First in Produce
Grocery shoppers are likely to feel the impact of the Trump administration’s sweeping new tariffs before April is over. And the first…
Business
Trade war boosts odds of Bank of England pushing ahead with May rate cut
THE threat of a global trade war is set to tip the balance at the Bank of England toward more interest-rate cuts, investors and economists…
Business
Stocks to watch: Far East Orchard, BYD
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Friday (Apr 4). Far East Orchard: The…
Politics
Trump Is Promising a Manufacturing Renaissance. Is That Even Possible?
President Trump’s imposition of tariffs on a scale unseen in nearly a century is more than a shot across the bow at U.S. trading partners.…
Lifestyle
How Will Charlie Javice Teach Pilates in an Ankle Monitor?
A striking and headline-making fraud case resulted in a conviction last Friday, when Charlie Javice was found guilty in federal court of…
Politics
Trump tariffs could stymie Big Tech’s US data centre spending spree
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs could hamstring Big Tech’s billion-dollar efforts to build artificial intelligence…
Business
John Thornton, Venture Capitalist Who Founded The Texas Tribune, Dies at 59
John Thornton, a financier who leveraged his wealth and influence to embark on the seemingly quixotic mission of reviving local journalism…
News
Radhika Jones, Vanity Fair’s Top Editor, Steps Down
Radhika Jones, the editor of Vanity Fair since 2017, said on Thursday that she would step down, a surprise decision that opens up one of…
Business
Europe: Shares slump as investors grapple with tariff fallout
EUROPEAN shares tumbled on Thursday, notching their biggest daily loss in eight months, on fears an escalating trade war would slam the…
Politics
With TikTok Deadline Looming, Details of a Potential Deal Emerge
Two days before a deadline for TikTok to be sold to a non-Chinese company or otherwise face a ban in the United States, a deal has not yet…
Business
US: Stocks tank on tariff woes with S&P 500 suffering worst day since 2020
US stocks plunged on Thursday as traders reacted to Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff announcement a day earlier, with the broad-based S&P…
Politics
Trump Imposes Tariffs on Remote Islands
President Trump’s tariffs have spared almost no corner of the Earth. Even tiny, sparsely populated islands that export close to nothing.…
Business
Elon Musk Isn’t Going Anywhere
“I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on, and it’s a big thing. I said this would be…