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Asian stocks were down this morning and Europe was flat, but investors in U.S. equities were ignoring all that in renewed hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in December, thus fueling asset markets with a...

GoTo Group appointed a new chief executive officer to replace Patrick Walujo, a move that’s expected to speed the takeover of Indonesia’s largest internet company by Grab Holdings Ltd.Chief operating officer Hans Patuwo will take the helm from Walujo,...

AI is expensive. Processors are expensive, data centers are expensive, power and water are expensive, data acquisition is expensive. Giants like the U.S. and China can bear these costs. But can other smaller regions—like Southeast Asia, home to the...

The controversial 28-point plan dropped suddenly by the Trump administration to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition mere days ago was mostly the result of several weeks of negotiations behind the scenes between Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration is working on bringing down US health-care costs and an announcement to address the issue is planned for this week.“We believe health care’s going to come down,” Bessent said Sunday on...

The Department of Government Efficiency plowed through federal spending and payrolls earlier this year, but it has since disappeared with top officials now working in other federal offices, according to Reuters.DOGE, which was once led by Elon Musk, had...

The EU and a handful of other countries have been left unusually isolated as they push for action to tackle global warming, after geopolitical schisms spilled into climate policies at the UN COP30 summit in Brazil.The meeting of 194...

Emmanuel Macron has a penchant for predicting the end of eras.Back in 2019, years before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it was the pronouncement that NATO was effectively brain dead. Indeed the post-war military alliance has struggled to rise to the...

President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks against ABC and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, urging the network to “get the bum off the air” in a social media post sent shortly after the comic’s latest episode ended.The...

On the evening of Jan. 21, 2025, President Trump on his first full day in office unveiled what he characterized as a “monumental undertaking” that would prove an exemplar of economic triumphs to come, and that he himself orchestrated....