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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,…
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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…
Politics
Judge: Trump Administration Acted in “Bad Faith” on Deportations
“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…
Business
Trump’s Trade War Risks Forfeiting America’s Economic Primacy
The global economic system that the United States has shaped and steered for more than three-quarters of a century was animated by a…
Business
Trump: The Economy Crashing Is Good, Actually
“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…
Politics
Republicans Are in Denial About Trump’s Catastrophic Tariffs
“Well, we’re importing from Turkey, we’re importing from South Korea, to a few other countries right now,” Rollins responded. “But again,…
Politics
Canada’s Carney Puts Tariffs on U.S.-Made Cars as Stellantis Plant Pauses Production
Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada had introduced a 25 percent tariff on cars and trucks made in the United States in retaliation…
Politics
Trump’s De Minimis Order Could Raise Costs on Clothes and Goods From China
President Trump on Wednesday ordered the closure of a loophole that allows retailers to directly send clothes and other goods from China…
Politics
Trump’s Tariffs Follow Anger Over Trade Imbalances and Lost Manufacturing Jobs
President Trump upended the international trading system on Wednesday with a blunt package of global tariffs, making the case that the…
Business
Capital One Deal for Discover Clears Justice Dept. Hurdle
Capital One cleared a significant obstacle to its proposed acquisition of Discover Financial Services after the Justice Department told…
Politics
Trump’s Tariffs Hit Garment Makers in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Hard
Through Covid, political chaos, and economic disarray, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh kept one industry central to their hopes of prosperity…
Politics
Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim About Egg Prices
President Trump, as he announced sweeping tariffs, batted away “very tired predictions” from critics of his economic agenda by citing a…