Topic: Business & Economy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-12 08:16 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-08-12 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Foreign policy investigator Adam Kredo of The Washington Free Beacon revealed on Monday that California regulators ordered Arc of Justice, a nonprofit operated by left-wing Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin, to cease charitable operations after years of missing tax filings and unanswered questions about what happened to $51 million in reported assets.
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[2026-08-12 07:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The nation's second-largest company Commonwealth Bank has reported its annual net profit rose to $10.9 billion.
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[2026-08-12 07:44 UTC+10:00] [ASIA PACIFIC] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: North Korea launched an apparent ballistic missile early Wednesday — Pyongyang’s second in less than a week — with the weapon believed to have fallen outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
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[2026-08-12 07:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: John Atwood says renting in the standard market would have left little savings for a deposit. (ABC News: Glenn Mullane)
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[2026-08-12 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: At Chow Tai Fook's Bangkok store, staff highlight Thailand-exclusive jewelry, such as gold elephant figurines and Buddha pendants. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
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[2026-08-12 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A new hide-and-seek game from Japan, made by a team of just two people, has gone viral. (Screenshot from Meccha Chameleon's Steam store page)
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[2026-08-12 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US State Department introduces tougher disclosure requirement covering sovereign loans, liabilities and collateral
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[2026-08-12 06:55 UTC+10:00] [United States] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US State Department introduces tougher disclosure requirement covering sovereign loans, liabilities and collateral
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[2026-08-12 06:45 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-08-12 06:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: CoreWeave shares jumped 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the AI infrastructure provider reported revenue than topped Wall Street expectations.
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[2026-08-12 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. stocks slipped a bit further from their records, while oil prices kept swinging on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow crude to flow freely again.
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[2026-08-12 06:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US anticipates oil disruptions from the Iran war to reach 600,000 barrels per day until the end of next year as conflict in the Strait of Hormuz constrains supplies.
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[2026-08-12 05:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The Institute of Science Tokyo has expressed interest in working with startups strong in such areas as artificial intelligence. (Institute of Science Tokyo)
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[2026-08-12 05:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The standing committee heard that Tasmanian children suffered "significant blows" to their "educational trajectories" if they received a late ADHD diagnosis. (Adobe Stock)
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[2026-08-12 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Music] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: After several years plagued by management volatility and financial strife, Opera Australia is pitching its 2027 season as one of stability and renewed ambition with a varied slate of productions for Sydney and Melbourne. The new season ranges from a new David McVicar production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser to a family-friendly, steampunk Magic Flute, two major Australian operas and the return of Gilbert and Sullivan to the Sydney Opera House.
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[2026-08-12 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Small businesses’ online shops are being switched off by computer algorithms with no warning or apparent human oversight, the small business ombudsman’s office says, as digital platform disputes become its biggest source of complaints.
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[2026-08-12 05:19 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: US stocks are slipping below their records, while oil prices keep swinging on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow crude to flow freely again.
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[2026-08-12 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 05:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday it would launch a new "AI Persona" badge in mid-September clearly identifying content producers that are AI-generated and not real people.
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[2026-08-12 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 05:01 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Western Sydney has emerged as the state’s most dynamic entrepreneurial hub and is on track to have more businesses that employ staff than eastern Sydney within 15 years.
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[2026-08-12 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Property / News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Despite a decline in home values, households who have been searching for a house to buy this year will still need a pay rise just to keep up.
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[2026-08-12 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Collingwood are preparing to try to prove doomsayers wrong who predict their ageing list will soon drop off a cliff, with an aggressive off-season designed to make another flag push with this group.
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[2026-08-12 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Most companies at risk of being dragged into a corporate scandal will do anything to get out of the blast zone. They’ll spin, distract and turn on each other. Just ask KPMG. In 2023 its chief executive Andrew Yates said the decision by staff at his rival, PwC, to leak details of a confidential Australian government tax crackdown was “clearly unethical and unacceptable”.
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[2026-08-12 04:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Wisconsin sent prediction market platforms spinning last month when its election commission released a directive reminding voters that betting on elections — including via trades on event contract exchanges — is illegal in the state, based on a more than 175-year-old law.
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[2026-08-12 04:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: An important inflation report Wednesday could give the Federal Reserve a little breathing room in its battle against inflation.
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[2026-08-12 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-12 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 03:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Hiroshi Okuda also advised the Japanese government and represented Japan's business community. (Photo by Hiromasa Matsuura)
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[2026-08-12 02:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. expert cautioned Tuesday against letting trade issues between South Korea and the United States define the entire bilateral relationship, noting the need to draw a lesson from a 2008 dispute over U.S. beef imports that the two countries resolved through continued engagement.
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[2026-08-12 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The Taj Mahal, like many other Indian tourist attractions, charges foreigners more for admission. (Photo by Nikkei)
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[2026-08-12 02:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Something unprecedented happened in the second quarter: aggregate household debt balances declined by $13 billion, a 0.1% decline from Q1. Balances stood at $18.8 trillion, up $4.6 trillion since the end of 2019, just before the pandemic recession. But the reason why we say it was unprecedented, is that the Q2 drop was the first quarterly decline in total household debt since the second quarter of 2020, when the US economy was gripped by the covid lockdown shock leading to
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[2026-08-12 02:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: An H3 rocket carrying a Michibiki positioning satellite takes off from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center on Aug. 11. © Kyodo
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[2026-08-12 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The United States Court of International Trade, center, is seen in front of the Jacob K. Javits Federal building, March 18, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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[2026-08-12 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Zeev Salant, co-CEO of Omer Construction and Engineering, a veteran construction company that held its IPO in late 2025, said that Israel was better off without Palestinian laborers.
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[2026-08-12 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: A READER wrote in a panic last month. She had just lost P45,000 to a fake investment app that promised “guaranteed” returns in seven days. Her first question was not “how do I get my money back,” but “which office do I even go to?” She had heard of the PNP, the NBI, the DICT, and something called CICC, and had no idea which one was hers to call.
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[2026-08-12 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KUALA LUMPUR — Vietnamese President and Communist Party General Secretary To Lam’s state visits to Australia and New Zealand this month are significant not only for the agreements expected to be concluded, but also for what they say about Vietnam’s increasingly confident place in the Indo-Pacific. At a time when geopolitical competition is intensifying, global trade is being reshaped and many countries are concerned about strategic uncertainty, Hanoi is responding with greater engagement.
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[2026-08-12 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Palawan Group of Companies has been recognized with six major awards at the “MarkeTech APAC: What’s Next in Marketing Advertising Awards Asia Pacific,” at One Farrer Hotel, Singapore on July 29.
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[2026-08-12 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump is doubling down on using economic pressure on Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but the remaining levers at his disposal carry a set of risks.
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[2026-08-12 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-08-12 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-08-12 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-08-12 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-08-12 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-08-12 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-08-12 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-08-12 01:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 01:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: LOS ANGELES — For years, JPMorgan executives have been talking with Olympics organizers about sponsoring the games. Before the next event, taking place in Los Angeles in 2028, the firm officially opted in — making a massive, nine-figure bet as the Games' first-ever global banking partner.
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