Topic: Business & Economy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-24 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Extreme conditions have caused Europe's waterways to run low. (Reuters: Leon Kuegeler)
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[2026-08-24 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-24 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Experts say the way you go about job hunting is important to protect yourself. (Adobe Stock)
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[2026-08-24 04:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-24 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-24 04:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-24 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Auxiliary equipment for nuclear fusion reactors developed by Kyoto Fusioneering. The investment by Japan's GX Acceleration Agency is part of a broader plan to mobilize 370 trillion yen ($2.3 trillion) in public and private investment across 17 strategic sectors by fiscal 2040. (Photo by Eisaku Nitta)
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[2026-08-24 03:24 UTC+10:00] [Trump tariffs] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Breakdown shows Washington now prioritises its own interests over any semblance of shared economic ground
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[2026-08-24 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country was facing “an all-out economic, military and security war”, as the US prepares to announce new sanctions.
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[2026-08-24 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Chief Rabbinate Council has approved a new range for the financial sum written into a ketubah, setting a minimum of NIS 36,000 and a maximum of NIS 360,000, and has ordered that Israel's marriage-registration procedure be amended accordingly.
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[2026-08-24 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A new report published by research and business-intelligence outlet The Olam on August 17 examined political petition participation among 2,844 faculty members across eight leading Israeli universities. The audit found that 1,434 faculty members, representing 50.4% of those included in the study, publicly signed at least one political petition calling the Gaza campaign launched following the October 7 massacre a war crime.
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[2026-08-24 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ELEVATED inflation could prompt the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to deliver another rate increase this Thursday despite a slowing economy, analysts said.
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[2026-08-24 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Canadian Prime Minister and WEF globalist Mark Carney has been a disaster for Canada since he entered office. There were many critics who believed the Trudeau regime could not be topped in terms of self destructive behavior, but one could easily argue that Carney is far more dangerous and far more devious.
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[2026-08-24 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: STOCK market trading could remain choppy this week as investors await a Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) policy decision this Thursday while weighing persistent peso weakness, elevated Treasury yields and mixed corporate earnings.
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[2026-08-24 02:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE peso’s slide toward P62:$1 is putting investor confidence in the Philippines to the test but does not represent a crisis, a former central bank official said.
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[2026-08-24 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DIGITAL transactions continued to rise in the first seven months of the year with money coursed through the country’s two major electronic fund transfer systems surpassing P19 trillion.
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[2026-08-24 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: FOR taxpayers engaged in zero-rated sales, it is a common scenario to pile up excess input taxes over the years. Now, imagine handing over millions of pesos in excess value-added tax (VAT) to the government and expecting a windfall thereafter through a refund, only to realize that the check vanished in thin air.
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[2026-08-24 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) has completed its updated masterplan for Camp John Hay and will select a private management partner for the property, BCDA president and CEO Joshua Bingcang said.
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[2026-08-24 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Sunday said it was intensifying its crackdown on counterfeit, unregistered, adulterated, and illegally manufactured farm inputs, particularly fertilizers.
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[2026-08-24 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Philippines is strengthening its role in advancing child-responsive public finance in the region, bringing together eight South and Southeast Asian countries to exchange reforms and practical solutions aimed at ensuring that limited public resources deliver better outcomes for children.
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[2026-08-24 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ROBINSONS Land Corp. (RLC) expects artificial intelligence (AI) to reshape demand for office space, rather than significantly weaken the market, as business process outsourcing (BPO) companies shift toward higher-value functions.
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[2026-08-24 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AYALA Land Inc. is tapping its mixed-use estates for additional recurring lease income through a partnership with Makro Philippines, which will establish wholesale stores in four of its developments across Metro Manila and Southern Luzon.
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[2026-08-24 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: FIRST Gen Corp. has signed an energy supply agreement with PNB Holdings Corp., the real estate holding arm of Philippine National Bank.
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[2026-08-24 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced retaliatory tariffs on the United States on Saturday after walking away from a “bad deal” on trade in a deepening rift between the longtime allies.
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[2026-08-24 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CHINA’s Alibaba said on Sunday it plans to sell HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) in a share placement to fund artificial intelligence (AI)-related development.
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[2026-08-24 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL — Kept in the dark after reporting her boss for harassment, South Korean advocate Baek Song-yi is now campaigning for survivors’ right to know how their bullies were disciplined.
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[2026-08-24 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SOME of Nvidia’s largest customers have been told prices of servers containing its artificial intelligence (AI) chips will rise by more than 15 percent in many cases with memory chip costs soaring, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.
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[2026-08-24 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-08-24 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: VIETNAM’s National Assembly on Sunday approved amendments to the customs law that strengthen customs powers to intercept counterfeit and intellectual property-infringing goods, a move that could address some concerns raised in a US trade investigation into the country’s protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
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[2026-08-24 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CHRISTINE Lagarde, chief of the European Central Bank (ECB), could take over the presidency of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at some point in 2027, Swiss newspaper NZZ reported on Sunday.
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[2026-08-24 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: In eastern Congo, where the economy is heavily dependent on small-scale mining, the constant movement of miners between remote sites is complicating efforts to contain Ebola.
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[2026-08-24 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenA control panel lies abandoned in the Morwell power station, which ceased operations in 2014. The Latrobe Valley was one of the most economically prosperous regions in Australia for much of the last century but is now facing economic uncertainty. Just under a third of the valley’s labour force worked in the coal industry in the 1980sShareView image in fullscreenA worker pilots a dredger in the Loy Yang coalmine.
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[2026-08-24 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Gambling] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Government says it hopes clubs will end jersey deals with wagering companies earlier, but calls it a commercial decision
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[2026-08-24 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Housing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: New entrants the only cohort making more loan applications amid interest rate rises and tax changes, mortgage broker says
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[2026-08-24 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-24 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Investigators are tracing financial records to determine whether companies have financed or ordered the land clearing linked to fire cases
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[2026-08-24 00:54 UTC+10:00] [Kalimantan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Investigators are tracing financial records to determine whether companies have financed or ordered the land clearing linked to fire cases
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[2026-08-24 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The attempted suicide of a worker dismissed from one of Iran’s petrochemical companies in Mahshahr on Tuesday has exposed the growing divide between the “military men” controlling the country and Iranian civilians, an expert told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
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[2026-08-24 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has vowed to hit Iran hard economically, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Washington would impose measures on Tehran that have "never been seen" as soon as next week.
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[2026-08-24 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us
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[2026-08-24 00:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
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[2026-08-24 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australia’s push to reserve more gas for domestic customers is stirring hopes of an onshore industrial revival, as a major chemical firm weighs reactivating a production complex mothballed nearly a decade ago due to surging gas prices.
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[2026-08-24 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-23 23:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: UK Lawyers for Israel has warned the UK government that a proposed ban on trade with Israeli businesses in east Jerusalem and the West Bank would breach several of Britain’s international legal obligations.
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[2026-08-23 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-23 23:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-23 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Nikkei Asia reports that China is restricting or delaying exports of germanium- and quartz-based materials to Taiwan, creating "painful supply-chain bottlenecks" across the island's key aerospace, semiconductor, and optical companies.
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[2026-08-23 22:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Emirates and Ryanair have had a playful exchange on social media after the Irish low-cost airline took a jab at the Dubai carrier's new economy class headrests.
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[2026-08-23 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Walk the halls of any major banking conference or listen in on a quarterly earnings call, and one topic keeps coming up: With the window for mergers wide open under the Trump administration, who will take a swing?
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[2026-08-23 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran has threatened to retaliate against any country that joins the United States’ “economic war” against it, as diplomatic efforts to end the months-long war have stalled and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has drastically decreased.
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