Topic: Business & Economy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-02 01:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Elbit Systems’ FUSE division will supply its THOR Group 2 uncrewed aircraft system to the US Army through a partnership with Mistral Inc., the companies announced on Friday.
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[2026-05-02 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
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[2026-05-02 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Woolworths] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The seven-day trial in the watchdog’s case against the supermarket offered a rare glimpse into its internal machinations
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[2026-05-02 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Consumer affairs] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The world’s economy is completely dependent on petrochemicals. Is there any way to avoid them?
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[2026-05-02 00:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A shell company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump has agreed to a merger with a mining group that secured up to $1.6 billion from the US government in 2025 to facilitate the extraction of tungsten in Kazakhstan, the Financial Times has reported.
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[2026-05-02 00:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iraq, Opec's second biggest oil producer, has started work on an pipeline linking Basra to Haditha with a planned capacity of 2.5 million barrels per day, as the country seeks new routes to export crude globally.
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[2026-05-02 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Recent KKR acquisition Arctos Partners has invested in the Los Angeles Dodgers, home to two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by AP and Reuters)
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[2026-05-02 00:30 UTC+10:00] [Harry's View] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Discover Harry’s View as our veteran cartoonist casts his satirical eye over the political, social and economic landscape
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[2026-05-02 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Discover Harry’s View as our veteran cartoonist casts his satirical eye over the political, social and economic landscape
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[2026-05-02 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Uber says acquisition of FlyTaxi part of its commitment to help grow taxi trade and provide ‘greater economic opportunities’ for drivers
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[2026-05-02 00:28 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Uber says acquisition of FlyTaxi part of its commitment to help grow taxi trade and provide ‘greater economic opportunities’ for drivers
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[2026-05-02 00:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Amid the fog of war and fading 'hard' data, the final April S&P Global Manufacturing PMI printed 54.5, a small gain from the flash 54.0 print, and higher than the 52.3 February final print, although it came with a warning from Chris Williamson, Chief Business Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence:
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[2026-05-02 00:14 UTC+10:00] [Agriculture] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — Large parts of the EU’s mega trade deal with the Latin American Mercosur bloc finally kicked in Friday, but the political fight over it continues.
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[2026-05-02 00:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: China’s President Xi Jinping, right, and Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo attend a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (Haruna Furuhashi/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-05-02 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: When the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Tuesday that it intended to exit the 12-member, six-decade-old Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), the move was read by some analysts as a purely economic one.
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[2026-05-01 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Wall Street financier Chirayu Rana, the anonymous ‘John Doe’ who filed a sensational—and fiercely disputed—sexual harassment lawsuit against a JPMorgan Chase executive has left investment firm Bregal Sagemount, senior company sources have told The Post.
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[2026-05-01 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Coachella now even has its own basketball team. A day after we reported there’s still bad blood between moguls Barry Diller and Irving Azoff over the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger in 2010, Azoff made his latest business move — bringing the LA Lakers’ G League team to Coachella.
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[2026-05-01 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A new land bridge between Pakistani ports and Iran may provide a lifeline to Tehran while it is under US blockade and redraw key Asian trade routes.
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[2026-05-01 23:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: When Indonesia’s Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa floated the idea last week of charging a toll for vessels passing through the Strait of Malacca – inspired by Iran’s moves in the Strait of Hormuz – it set off alarm bells among insurers and Asian importers.
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[2026-05-01 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Welcome to The California Post’s weekly Dodgers recap, where baseball writers Dylan Hernández and Jack Harris review the week that was, hand out player superlatives and take stock of the state of the season.
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[2026-05-01 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Tucked into the tree-lined hills of Thousand Oaks, a 1980s home by the legendary architect Frank Gehry has quietly traded hands for $2.45 million without ever hitting the open market.
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[2026-05-01 22:41 UTC+10:00] [United States Defense and Military Forces] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: The Pentagon announced on Friday that it had reached deals with some of the technology industry’s biggest companies in an effort to expand the military’s artificial intelligence capabilities and increase the number of firms authorized to be on classified networks.
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[2026-05-01 22:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US equity futures are higher, set for a new all time high, as the rally that’s pushed Wall Street to record highs on strong megacap tech earnings continues, after the S&P posted its best monthly increase since November 2020. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.3% (spiking moments ago on a report that Iran submitted its latest response to US amendments on the ceasefire agreement), while Nasdaq futures are modestly in the red and the Russell underperforms.
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[2026-05-01 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Quietly, shares of Google-parent Alphabet are on the verge of topping $5 trillion, and overtaking AI-leader Nvidia as the world's most valuable company.
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[2026-05-01 22:35 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Agreements with artificial intelligence firms spark concerns over public spending, cyber security and domestic surveillance
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[2026-05-01 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, traffic moves past a sign for a Mobil gas station on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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[2026-05-01 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Amid what China sees as US’ polarising unilateral measures, a push for ‘global governance’ gives rise to a network of multi-country agencies
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[2026-05-01 22:00 UTC+10:00] [United Nations] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Amid what China sees as US’ polarising unilateral measures, a push for ‘global governance’ gives rise to a network of multi-country agencies
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[2026-05-01 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran’s economy is undergoing one of the most brutal stress tests in its modern history. Official annual inflation has surged to 50% according to central bank figures released shortly after the ceasefire, while the year-on-year rate reached as high as 67% through mid-April, according to the Wall Street Journal. The rial has crashed to a record low of 1.8 million to the dollar, roughly two million workers have lost their jobs, and the US naval blockade of the Strait of
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[2026-05-01 21:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Japanese yen surged against the dollar on Friday, extending gains that came the previous day after officials in Tokyo said they stood ready to intervene in the foreign exchange market.
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[2026-05-01 21:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail first broke the story earlier this week about a former JPMorgan staffer who claimed that an executive director on JPM's leveraged finance team turned him into a "sex slave" by drugging him with Rohypnol and Viagra, according to a bombshell lawsuit. However, it now appears that the sexual harassment suit was "fabricated," according to a new report.
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[2026-05-01 21:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attends a meeting with members of the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), about financial literacy, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at the Treasury Department, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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[2026-05-01 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Jerome Powell confirmed this week that he won’t leave the Federal Reserve next month after he steps down as chairman – but some of his detractors are already floating ideas on how to change his mind, On The Money has learned.
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[2026-05-01 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: All five Japanese trading houses reported earnings and predicted profit rises for their current fiscal years on Friday. (Source photos by Nikkei)
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[2026-05-01 20:22 UTC+10:00] [Finance] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-01 20:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel supplied the United Arab Emirates with a laser defence system and other advanced weapons during the war on Iran, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
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[2026-05-01 20:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel supplied the United Arab Emirates with a laser defence system and other advanced weapons during the war on Iran, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
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[2026-05-01 20:05 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-05-01 20:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Athens, Greece – When the conservative New Democracy party came to power in Greece in 2019, it promised a work-driven economy that would grow by 4 percent a year and elevate living standards after a decade of austerity.
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[2026-05-01 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Analysis finds real wages fell 12% since 2019, with inequality widening in the US beyond global levels
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[2026-05-01 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts urge Beijing to invest in Africa’s industrial capacity to reduce its substantial trade deficit and create a more balanced relationship
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[2026-05-01 20:00 UTC+10:00] [South Africa] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts urge Beijing to invest in Africa’s industrial capacity to reduce its substantial trade deficit and create a more balanced relationship
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[2026-05-01 20:00 UTC+10:00] [MovePH] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-05-01 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Eleven years after Vine died, Jack Dorsey is funding its resurrection and putting it back on the App Store.
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[2026-05-01 20:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: To submit a letter to The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email. See here for our rules and tips on getting your letter published.
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[2026-05-01 19:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Shares of AstraZeneca turned lower Friday after U.S. regulatory advisors voted against approving its experimental cancer drug.
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[2026-05-01 19:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has accused the Pentagon of misleading the public over the financial toll of the war launched by Donald Trump alongside Benjamin Netanyahu on 28 February.
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[2026-05-01 19:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A monitor displaying the yen's exchange rate against the U.S. dollar on May 1 on Gaikaitame.com. (Photo by Nanami Sato)
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[2026-05-01 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-05-01 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Cricket] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Cricket NSW chairman John Knox and chief executive Lee Germon have fired back at what they call “misconceptions” about opposition to Cricket Australia’s BBL sale plan, insisting the organisation is not seeking to strengthen its ties with betting companies but wants fair value for existing markets.
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