Topic: Business & Economy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-09 06:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: 2nd Street's 10th Thailand shop opened in Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok, during April. (Photo by Keigo Iwamoto)
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[2026-05-09 06:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: 2nd Street's 10th Thailand shop opened in Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok, in April. (Photo by Keigo Iwamoto)
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[2026-05-09 06:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. stocks rose to records following the latest sign that the nation’s job market is doing better than economists expected.
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[2026-05-09 06:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: OnlyFans has agreed to sell a minority stake to investment firm Architect Capital in a deal valuing the adult-content platform at $3.15 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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[2026-05-09 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — The recent grounding of US budget carrier Spirit Airlines could help ease shortages of next-generation RTX spare engines needed to keep late-model Airbus single-aisle jets flying, industry executives and analysts say.
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[2026-05-09 06:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Anthropic's Claude agents have soared in popularity, putting pressure on the company's compute capacity. (Nikkei Montage/Source photos by Reuters and AP)
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[2026-05-09 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday said both Sri Lanka and Viet Nam have agreed to further strengthen economic cooperation with the aim of increasing bilateral trade to US$ 1 billion by 2030.
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[2026-05-09 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Toyota expects a sharp decline in profit as rising material and shipping costs tied to the Iran conflict pressure its business, according to Bloomberg.
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[2026-05-09 05:46 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Committee on Public Finance (CoPF) has raised concerns regarding the failure of the National Development Bank (NDB)’s audit committees to detect a massive internal fraud, estimated at over Rs.13 billion and the effectiveness of its internal controls.
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[2026-05-09 05:45 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa welcomed President of Viet Nam Tô Lâm to the Parliament yesterday (8), describing Viet Nam as a model nation that has successfully transformed adversity into economic growth, prosperity, and inclusive development.
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[2026-05-09 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: “A new world order must be built to ensure economic justice and equal political security for all nations. An end to the arms race is an essential prerequisite for the establishment of such an order.”
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[2026-05-09 05:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Digitalization refers to the use of digital technologies and data, as well as their interconnection, which results in new technologies or changes to existing ones. In recent years, digitalization has significantly increased, especially in industries such as banking. For example, most banks now provide internet banking facilities as well as mobile applications for transactions.
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[2026-05-09 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Addis Ababa marked the official assumption of duties by Ambassador-designate Nirmala Indumathie Dias Paranavitana. She will also serve as Sri Lanka’s Permanent Observer to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
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[2026-05-09 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: From Bill Dubuque, creator of Ozark, M.I.A. hits Peacock with all eight of its episodes at once. Shannon Gisela stars as Etta, smart, resourceful, and college-bound, who’s also a little spontaneous: maybe she’d like to stay in South Florida and work for the family business, which includes a bustling marina, tourist trawls, fishing charters, and…another, hidden revenue stream.
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[2026-05-09 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Property / News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Sydney’s once-common $500,000 houses have disappeared over the past 20 years, data shows, with runaway price growth transforming the city’s property market in that time.
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[2026-05-09 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Banking & finance] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australia’s corporate cop has long been fighting off claims that it’s a toothless tiger – a criticism that comes with the territory. But when Joe Longo became chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in 2021, he faced more than the usual challenges that confront every ASIC boss.
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[2026-05-09 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Business, Economics and Finance
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[2026-05-09 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer wants key meeting in Beijing to help ‘achieve more balance’ economically between the two countries
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[2026-05-09 04:57 UTC+10:00] [US Trade Representative] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer wants key meeting in Beijing to help ‘achieve more balance’ economically between the two countries
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[2026-05-09 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The industry says ethanol is the easiest biofuel to use as it is already in the Australian market. (ABC News: John Gunn)
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[2026-05-09 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Laura Fernández was sworn in Friday as president of Costa Rica alongside her predecessor, outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump who will be serving dual roles as her mi nisters of the presidency and finance.
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[2026-05-09 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The spring housing season hit a speed bump this week as rising mortgage rates and global economic uncertainty prompted both buyers and sellers to retreat.
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[2026-05-09 04:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV — Russia and Ukraine traded attacks Friday, with a two-day unilateral ceasefire that Moscow had declared around its World War II commemorations appearing to be in tatters.
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[2026-05-09 04:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: California shoppers may soon find there’s no such thing as a quick getaway from the grocery store.
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[2026-05-09 04:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: OnlyFans announced Friday that it reached a deal to sell a roughly 16% stake to Architect Capital that values the porn streaming site at $3.15 billion, after the Silicon Valley investment firm struggled to clinch backers.
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[2026-05-09 04:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-05-09 04:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A general view of Lincoln Financial Field during the second half of an NFL football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Michael Perez, File)
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[2026-05-09 04:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: European Union legislation aims to promote decarbonization in the bloc's industry, partly by adding "Made in Europe" content requirements for subsidy eligibility. © Reuters
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[2026-05-09 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Jane Street pulled in a record haul of $16.1 billion in trading revenue for the first three months of the year, as the Wall Street market maker benefited from bouts of increased market volatility and a jump in the value of its stakes in top AI companies like Anthropic, according to people familiar with the matter.
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[2026-05-09 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: I have travelled to the UAE countless times, in various capacities – privately, as Austria’s foreign minister and later as my country’s chancellor. In recent years, I have spent about one week per month here, even establishing an office in Abu Dhabi. In many ways, it has become a second home.
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[2026-05-09 03:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: If the Federal Reserve still has any reasons to cut interest rates in the near future, they're getting harder and harder to find.
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[2026-05-09 03:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Michael Burry of "Big Short" fame is warning that the stock market's fixation on artificial intelligence is beginning to resemble the final stages of the dot-com bubble.
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[2026-05-09 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Already looking like something right out of the dot com bubble, Intel stock soared even more moments ago, surging almost 20% and hitting a new all time high over $130 (it was trading at $80 a few days ago), after the WSJ reported that the White House-backed chipmaker has reached a preliminary agreement to manufacture some of the chips that power Apple devices.
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[2026-05-09 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: TL;DR: The 2026 Personal Finance Essentials course makes sense of budgeting, credit, and investing — all for $29.99.
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[2026-05-09 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — America’s employers delivered a surprising 115,000 new jobs last month despite an economic shock from the Iran war.
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[2026-05-09 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Pedestrians walk past a stock quotation board in Tokyo showing the Nikkei Stock Average's figure on May 7. © Reuters
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[2026-05-09 03:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Nintendo’s annual profit surged 52% in the last fiscal year, lifted by solid sales of its Switch 2 machines and software, the company announced Friday.
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[2026-05-09 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Moderna is out with timely news that it is working on early-stage research on vaccines targeting hantaviruses. The news comes as a Spanish woman has been hospitalized for a suspected infection, while a hantavirus cluster has ravaged a Dutch-flagged cruise ship, with five confirmed and three suspected cases of hantavirus.
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[2026-05-09 02:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: FRANKFURT, Germany — Porsche said Friday it will close three subsidiaries, including an EV battery developer, with the loss of more than 500 jobs, in the latest sign of strains for the German luxury auto manufacturer.
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[2026-05-09 02:54 UTC+10:00] [EU-US trade talks] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: ROME — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared himself "a strong supporter of NATO" after talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday, as political friction between the two allies brews.
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[2026-05-09 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Costco is planning an expansion of its stores in California with two new stores set to open soon.
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[2026-05-09 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: NTT's mobile unit has faced customer attrition due to poor connectivity in urban areas. (Photo by Satoko Kawasaki)
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[2026-05-09 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Nearly seven weeks after OnlyFans owner and billionaire Leonid Radvinsky died, and after months of reports that the sex-worker streaming platform was exploring a stake sale, the Financial Times reported Friday morning that San Francisco-based Architect Capital is preparing to buy a minority stake in the company.
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[2026-05-09 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Cosmetic surgeons are increasingly fielding requests for “fat banking,” with patients planning for the future with a literal pound of flesh.
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[2026-05-09 02:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A massive cyberattack that crippled the Canvas online learning platform as finals were getting underway at many universities could leave them scrambling for as long as a month — and expose the education software giant to major legal and financial fallout, cybersecurity experts told The Post.
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[2026-05-09 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Artificial intelligence could make cyberattacks a systemic threat to global finance, the International Monetary Fund has warned, saying advanced models can help attackers exploit vulnerabilities faster than institutions can fix them.
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[2026-05-09 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Artificial intelligence could make cyberattacks a systemic threat to global finance, the International Monetary Fund has warned, saying advanced models can help attackers exploit vulnerabilities faster than institutions can fix them.
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[2026-05-09 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SLOWER-THAN-EXPECTED first-quarter growth has underlined expectations of a below-target outcome for 2026, with Fitch unit BMI revising its forecast to 4.2 percent from 4.7 percent and Bank of America (BofA) maintaining its markedly lower projection of 2.0 percent.
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[2026-05-09 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Lucky Strike Entertainment is facing a new lawsuit accusing it of operating an illegal monopoly of bowling centers across the country – allegedly jacking up prices, pushing alcohol and gambling and tarnishing a cherished American pastime.
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[2026-05-09 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: COLOMBO — Vietnam's President To Lam called for deeper defense and trade ties with Sri Lanka on Friday, noting the South Asian island's strategic position in the Indian Ocean.
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