Mexico cuts interest rate as Iran war fuels inflation concerns
Mexico’s central bank has lowered its benchmark interest rate following a split vote, as uncertainty surrounding the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to unsettle global markets.
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Mexico’s central bank has lowered its benchmark interest rate following a split vote, as uncertainty surrounding the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to unsettle global markets.
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- Consumer sentiment rose at the fastest pace in about a year in May, driven by robust semiconductor exports and the stock market rally, the central bank said Friday.
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Opposition to the US-Israeli war on Iran is increasing in the US, adding pressure on President Donald Trump amid worsening economic concerns.
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Hour-to-hour swings for oil prices keep jerking financial markets around, and US stocks are drifting following the latest reversal.
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In 2008, Carmel Bell was on top of the world. She was a 47-year-old mother of five healthy kids, ran a successful medical diagnostic business and lived in a beautiful home in Melbourne’s leafy east.
Local governments across Perth are calling for better investment from the state government to help mitigate the spread of the polyphagous shot-hole borer, which has wreaked havoc on the city’s tree canopy.
Building company Hickory has picked up one of the city’s most notorious sites, a bogus recycling plant in Lara that once held a 20-metre-high pile of rubbish and cost the state $71 million to clean up.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a meeting with business leaders in Mexico City, Monday, May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
America's largest RV dealer and service chain, selling new and used motorhomes, travel trailers, and more for outdoor living, has been under pressure over the past several years as high interest rates have crushed RV demand.
Science Tokyo aims to begin opening its futuristic mixed-use development in fiscal 2031. (Science Tokyo)
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is open to changes on a proposal to tax trusts that the Coalition has described as a “death tax”, according to government sources, though Labor will overlook a business outcry and push ahead with its remodelling of the capital gains tax.
Lebanon’s ongoing war is expected to shrink the country’s economy by at least seven percent this year and could cost the country an estimated $20bn.
Elon Musk announced plans for one of the biggest stock sales ever by taking public a space company that is currently losing billions of dollars a year. The stock sale could also make Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, the world’s first trillionaire. (AP Video: Marissa Duhaney)
Microsoft is in talks to supply its custom artificial intelligence chips to Anthropic, CNBC confirmed on Thursday.
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The late Queen Elizabeth II was "very keen" for former prince Andrew to be named Britain's trade envoy in 2001, according to documents released that show his appointment received little scrutiny from government ministers.The government released confidential papers related to the appointment on Thursday in response t…
Eli Lilly says participants in a sizable trial of retatrutide lost much more weight compared to other weight-loss drugs
The move to oust Ozgur Ozel triggered a stock market sell-off and could strengthen President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s grip on power
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Dubai's Arabian Travel Market, the emirate's flagship tourism industry event, will be held in September in an effort to “maximise participation” after being put on hold by the Iran war.
BIOFERTILIZERS are the most promising substitute for urea, an inorganic fertilizer with a high nitrogen concentrations. More than 40 microorganisms are used to produce biofertilizers but the most promising one is a bacterium called Azospirillum.
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Saudi Arabia has halted issuing new contracts for western consultancies as the kingdom monitors the economic effects of the US-Iran war, the Financial Times reported, citing company executives.
ON May 6, 2026, ABS-CBN Director Federico “Piki” Lopez filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against the network and its top officers. The complaint sought the appointment of an independent management committee to prevent further dissipation of the company’s assets and called for a comp…
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All shares of Nippon Information Industry now belong to the joint private equity fund. (Photo by Miyu Fukawa)
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OpenAI's new GPT-5.5-Cyber model is said to have capabilities similar to Anthropic's Claude Mythos. © Reuters
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to loosen a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment, in what officials say is a push to lower grocery costs.
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A Paris appeals court on Thursday found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash that killed 228 passengers and crew in France's worst air disaster.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries will integrate Nvidia's AI technology with its robotics applications. (Source photos by Nikkei)
A nationwide strategy allowing landlords to request the credit scores of prospective tenants could boost stability in the UAE's property market but must be used “fairly and responsibly”.
NAND flash memory chips made by Kioxia. AI-related stocks rose on May 20 after American chip company Nvidia announced strong earnings. (Kioxia)