Topic: Business & Economy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-27 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s most Trusted and Innovative media services provider
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[2026-02-27 06:01 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The owners of a Brisbane bayside shopping centre who benefited from a council decision to cancel a rival project are now selling the “blue chip” site.
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[2026-02-27 05:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: World Economic Forum (WEF) chief Borge Brende has stepped down from his post over his ties to late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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[2026-02-27 05:57 UTC+10:00] [Life] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Glenn McNamara left his decades-long corporate career to run a gay sauna. Source: Supplied / Laura Brierley Newton
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[2026-02-27 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The government made significant changes to the 5% Deposit Scheme on October 1. (ABC News: Keana Naughton)
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[2026-02-27 05:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Nassim Khadem is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She reports on business news across online, radio and TV for ABC News. Her recent reporting has also focused on international affairs, including Iran's protest movement. Nassim began working as a journalist with The Age in 2003, including as that newspaper's economics correspondent.
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[2026-02-27 05:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: After yesterday's mediocre 5Y auction, we had just one coupon sale left: 7Y paper at 1pm today. And with today's wholesale post-Nvidia, risk-off move it was expected to be an easy sale, which is more or less what it was.
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[2026-02-27 05:27 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Nvidia’s latest blowout profit report is getting waved off by Wall Street on Thursday, and it’s dragging the US market down even though most stocks are rising.
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[2026-02-27 05:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India and Israel will collaborate more closely on defence technology while pursuing a free trade agreement, as he wrapped up a controversial two-day visit.
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[2026-02-27 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, visiting lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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[2026-02-27 05:01 UTC+10:00] [Business / Workplace] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A side hustle that brings in an extra $10,000 a year is helping to keep a roof over the head of Sydney’s Angie Shen.
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[2026-02-27 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-02-27 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: February 27, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-02-27 04:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Chelsea won the first edition of the revamped Fifa Club World Cup last July, but have also beaten their rivals to the title of biggest financial losers
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[2026-02-27 04:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Spanning some 150 million hectares, the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the most coveted in the world, sought by logging companies and controversial carbon-offset developers alike.
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[2026-02-27 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
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[2026-02-27 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran is weighing economic incentives to entice US President Donald Trump as nuclear negotiations with Washington continue, the Financial Times has reported.
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[2026-02-27 03:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: New York Jets linebacker Jermaine Johnson (11) warms up before an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)
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[2026-02-27 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Sub-Saharan Africa may be the world’s fastest-growing region, but it is also losing billions of dollars each year through inefficiencies in food systems and trade.
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[2026-02-27 03:42 UTC+10:00] [Jeffrey Epstein] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Børge Brende admitted dining with the convicted sex offender on three occasions between 2018 and 2019
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[2026-02-27 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ECONOMIC growth will likely post a first-quarter rebound given latest indicators, the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) said, but at a pace slower than forecast at the start of the year.
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[2026-02-27 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KARAWANG, Indonesia — Nonstop buzzing fills a windowless Microsoft data center near Jakarta, part of a tech construction boom sweeping Southeast Asia that promises economic opportunities but is also hungry for resources.
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[2026-02-27 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TOTAL assets of the Philippine banking sector rose to P29.8 trillion last year, data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed, up 8.7 percent from 2024’s P27.4 trillion.
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[2026-02-27 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Social Security System (SSS) is aiming to grow its reserve fund to P2 trillion by 2029 after topping the P1-trillion mark last year.
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[2026-02-27 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Marcos administration is aiming to secure $10.3 billion in concessional loans this year through official development assistance (ODA) agreements with three countries, a Cabinet official said.
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[2026-02-27 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Home Development Mutual Fund, also known as the Pag-IBIG Fund, said its investment income jumped by nearly 50 percent to P9.43 billion in 2025.
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[2026-02-27 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: JUST like the Department of Agrarian Reform, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has identified a number of measures that will form part of the “big bold reform” (BBR) initiatives of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for the remaining years of his term. The presentation of the measures was made by no less than Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr., and I was able to obtain a copy of his PowerPoint presentation.
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[2026-02-27 03:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE National Food Authority ( A) has revised its procurement rules for palay (unhusked rice) to allow more farmers to sell their harvest to the government, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Thursday.
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[2026-02-27 03:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Department of Energy (DOE) has added a new measure to support higher renewable energy generation.
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[2026-02-27 03:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE country is entering a decisive phase in its energy transition.
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[2026-02-27 03:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ROBINSONS Retail Holdings Inc. (RRHI) on Thursday said that core net earnings for 2025 increased by 6.0 percent to P6.7 billion from a year earlier, backed by sustained net sales growth and improved operating leverage.
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[2026-02-27 03:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA) — being finalized by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) — was expected to double the region’s digital economy to $2 trillion by 2030.
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[2026-02-27 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: World Economic Forum head Børge Brende said Thursday that he is stepping down after facing pressure over his contacts with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Brende, a former Norwegian foreign minister, said in a statement that he had decided “after careful consideration” to step down as president and chief executive of the forum, known for its annual January summit in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos.
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[2026-02-27 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Shell Lubricants has once again been ranked the world’s leading global supplier of finished lubricants, marking its 19th consecutive year at the top of the industry, according to the ‘Global Lubricants: Market Analysis and Assessment 2025’ report by Kline & Company. This recognition maintains Shell’s leadership while meeting evolving customer needs globally, further reinforcing its role as a trusted partner across automotive and industrial sectors.
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[2026-02-27 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Finance super app GCash, together with Manulife Investment Management and Trust Corporation (Manulife Investments Philippines), is expanding Filipinos’ access to the global property market by introducing Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) funds and other income-paying unit investment trust funds (UITFs) within the GCash app.
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[2026-02-27 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Philippines should ensure that economic cooperation among member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) must remain both business and people-centric.
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[2026-02-27 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AS a key figure in the business community, Eduardo Francisco, BDO Capital & Investment Corp. president, represented the private sector at The Manila Times economic outlook forum 2026, titled “Enhancing Asean Partnerships, Improving Philippine Leadership” on Feb 18, 2026.
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[2026-02-27 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SINGAPORE ꟷ Southeast Asia’s top ride-hailing and delivery firm, Grab, is betting on artificial intelligence (AI) and expansion of new services such as online groceries and financial products to triple profit by 2028, the company’s president told Reuters.
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[2026-02-27 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Philippines and the Asean region are poised for stable growth in the upcoming years. In order to sustain this, both must rise to the challenges in the complex global and geopolitical trends that shape its current economy. This was elucidated by Yasuto Watanabe, director and CEO of the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), during The Manila Times economic forum on Feb.
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[2026-02-27 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The handset’s launch in Madrid marks Huawei’s renewed push into the global smartphone market
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[2026-02-27 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: GERMAN sportswear maker Puma on Thursday said it still expected to report a loss this year, after reporting a narrower-than-expected loss in 2025.
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[2026-02-27 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Nestlé has introduced a new system for measuring performance that will give high achievers more lucrative bonuses and little to no rewards for those falling short of standards, the company said on Wednesday, as CEO Philipp Navratil works to revitalize the Swiss food group’s fortunes.
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[2026-02-27 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SYDNEY, Australia ꟷ Australia’s Qantas Airways said on Thursday new fuel-efficient aircraft and strong demand for travel helped to drive up sales and deliver a steady half-year profit.
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[2026-02-27 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SMART Communications Inc. has opened pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S26 Series, bringing the latest flagship devices to its Postpaid, Infinity and Prepaid offerings.
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[2026-02-27 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Citi was recognized as the Philippines’ Best Transaction Bank in the Euromoney Transaction Banking Awards 2025, highlighting the strength of the franchise in supporting clients in the areas of e-commerce, bank-to-bank cross-border flows, and digital trade solutions. “As a global bank, Citi endeavors to consistently bring trends and best practices across industries.
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[2026-02-27 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The New York Jets have agreed to trade pass rusher Jermaine Johnson to the Tennessee Titans for defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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[2026-02-27 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: American firms face deepening yttrium and scandium shortages, threatening jet engine coatings and 5G chip production
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[2026-02-27 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Workers repair the destroyed DTEK company’s power plant after a Russian missile attack on the country’s energy system in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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[2026-02-27 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The Jeffrey Epstein fallout continues to spread across the corporate and political worlds, with new headlines daily. Bill Gates told foundation staff earlier this week, "I did nothing illicit." Goldman Sachs' top lawyer, Kathy Ruemmler, stepped down last week over her ties, and former Prince Andrew was arrested on suspicion of misconduct related to sending Epstein trade documents.
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[2026-02-27 01:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Flydubai expects a strong performance in 2026 as travel demand remains high, despite the airline recording a 13.6 per cent drop in its post-tax profit last year as it invested heavily in the business.
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