Topic: Business & Economy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-16 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts say the proposed surtax – a reworking of three local revenue sources into one semi-autonomous levy – should help streamline finances
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[2026-09-16 08:00 UTC+10:00] [VAT] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts say the proposed surtax – a reworking of three local revenue sources into one semi-autonomous levy – should help streamline finances
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[2026-09-16 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Speaking at Goldman Sachs' 33rd Annual Global Retailing Conference on Tuesday morning, Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos offered a downbeat assessment of its customer base, warning that financial stress is spreading up the income ladder to middle- and upper-middle-income households.
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[2026-09-16 07:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The Australian share market is likely to rise slightly and bounce back from its three-month low.
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[2026-09-16 07:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Philadelphia 76ers forward Paul George (8) drives around Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown (7) during the second half in Game 1 of a first-round NBA playoffs basketball game, Sunday, April 19, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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[2026-09-16 07:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: India’s relations with US have frayed over trade and tariffs recently, but strong defence ties still remain between the two countries
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[2026-09-16 07:34 UTC+10:00] [Galwan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: India’s relations with US have frayed over trade and tariffs recently, but strong defence ties still remain between the two countries
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[2026-09-16 07:29 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Proposals revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, met with Albanese ministers
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[2026-09-16 07:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Students at Kawaguchi Technical High School look at a bulletin board filled with job postings. (Photo by Utako Kawakami)
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[2026-09-16 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
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[2026-09-16 06:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The U.S. stock market slipped as oil prices and the bond market cranked up the pressure on Wall Street.
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[2026-09-16 06:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The board of Kennedy Center in Washington, DC has voted to shutter the historic venue’s doors, citing what it described as a dire financial crisis amid critically needed renovations.
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[2026-09-16 06:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The United States, the European Union and China impose their own trade rules on each other and other economies. (Nikkei montage)
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[2026-09-16 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Game-related spending continues to increase even as food spending dips. (Photo by Norika Taguchi)
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[2026-09-16 05:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Americans' inflation-adjusted incomes rose and poverty declined in 2025, according to new Census Bureau data released Tuesday, as the Federal Reserve meets to decide whether inflation still requires higher interest rates.
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[2026-09-16 05:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Towing's Soratan biochar contains microbes to feed more nutrients to plants. (Photo obtained by Nikkei)
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[2026-09-16 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The circumstances of US/Canadian trade should be common knowledge by now, but the details often get mired in the swamp of political rhetoric. When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney describes the tariff issue as the US "waging war" on Canada, he knows exactly what he's doing. Carney has turned a simple trade issue over reasonable 10% tariffs into an existential crisis, an invasion, an ethnic cleansing, a last stand against "evil" imperialists.
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[2026-09-16 05:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 05:13 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The US stock market is slipping as oil prices and the bond market crank up the pressure on Wall Street.
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[2026-09-16 05:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The Senate on Tuesday failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, falling short of the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633. The vote, held at about 2:15 p.m. ET, was the first floor test of comprehensive crypto market-structure legislation in the chamber.
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[2026-09-16 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework.
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[2026-09-16 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Key chip material supplier IV Technologies is expanding in central Taiwan and eager to expand its hiring. (Photo courtesy of IV Technologies)
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[2026-09-16 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Property / News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Buyers are holding back from the spring property market, even as house prices fall. Fewer new listings, a fear of overpaying and a lack of urgency are keeping many from taking the plunge.
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[2026-09-16 04:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The Philippine government has been taking steps to lower barriers to entry, including simplifying investment approvals. (Looop)
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[2026-09-16 04:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US government borrowing costs climbed to their highest level since 2007 after a jump in oil prices further fuelled concerns about inflation.
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[2026-09-16 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prosecutors charged Tel Aviv resident Udi Ayalon, 48, on Monday with threatening a media professional’s career, reputation and privacy in an alleged campaign to force her to renew a business and personal relationship with him.
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[2026-09-16 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 04:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: OpenAI has been engaging with other artificial intelligence companies, including Anthropic and Google, about how they can work together to address safety concerns, a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday.
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[2026-09-16 04:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The ink barely dried on safety Jevon Holland’s restructured contract Monday before fan-driven speculation began that the Giants could use their additional $5.8 million in salary-cap savings to trade for Joey Porter Jr.
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[2026-09-16 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 04:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Banking & finance] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-09-16 04:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Albanese government MPs are voicing increasing unease over the prospect of more interest rate hikes and stalling living standards as Treasurer Jim Chalmers works to prepare backbenchers for a report next week that will lay bare Australia’s long-term economic problems.
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[2026-09-16 03:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 03:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 03:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said he expects to hold talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng this weekend over Beijing's financial relationship with Iran.
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[2026-09-16 03:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Just in case Japan's bond yields weren't high enough already, Bloomberg reports that Japan is considering a new mid-term defense spending target of 3.5% of GDP in line with NATO and other US allies. Such a move would send a shockwave through financial markets concerned about Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s spending plans at a time when Japan is preparing to trim tax receipts even more by cutting consumption tax to 1%.
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[2026-09-16 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Office vacancy rates in Tokyo wards are well below the 5% break-even level for balanced supply and demand. (Photo by Shun Kato)
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[2026-09-16 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: President Sheikh Mohamed met Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday to discuss strengthening bilateral ties.
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[2026-09-16 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A delegation of US officials and business leaders have arrived in Syria in a bid to deepen Washington's economic ties with Damascus.
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[2026-09-16 03:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 03:17 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRIGHTON, England — The U.K. government must commit to spending 3 percent of GDP on defense by 2030, one of Britain’s most powerful union leaders told POLITICO.
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[2026-09-16 03:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 03:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In 1984, The Terminator with Arnold Schwarzenegger put the idea on the map that artificial intelligence (AI)-style robots could take over the planet and destroy their human creators in one fell swoop with a nuclear holocaust.
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[2026-09-16 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The recent willingness shown by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss the risks that exist amid AI development is "encouraging," Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Professor Yaniv Romano told The Jerusalem Post in a Tuesday interview.
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[2026-09-16 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: OpenAI and Anthropic both announced on Saturday that they will be slowing down the development of artificial intelligence after a former employee of both firms accused the companies of "acting irresponsibly and gambling with our lives," with both the American government, Chinese officials, and even Nvidia's CEO going out of their way to dismiss these claims and assure that it was "a hoax."
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