Topic: Business & Economy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-06-06 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-06-06 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-06-06 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-06-06 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-06-06 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-06-06 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Chances that the Federal Reserve increases interest rates this year shot up from 25.3% to 52% in the last week on prediction markets platform Kalshi.
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[2026-06-06 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BANGKOK — At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore last week, United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pressed America’s Asian allies to spend 3.5 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense, fueling anxiety across the region and beyond. His browbeating call to arms may well bring about a regional defense buildup on a scale unseen since the Cold War’s end.
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[2026-06-06 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-06 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-06 01:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – In the popular Bastan market in the west of the Iranian capital, where the inviting smell of fresh bread and fruit mingle with the sight of colourful fabrics and clothing, the scene no longer holds its usual joy.
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[2026-06-06 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: President Vladimir Putin delivered his keynote address at the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday, leaning heavily on familiar talking points about a “multipolar” world while downplaying the mounting economic headwinds hitting Russia amid its war against Ukraine.
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[2026-06-06 01:05 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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[2026-06-06 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-06 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Housing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Most economists believe the chronic undersupply of homes will eventually push prices higher once interest rates ease and the tax changes are priced in
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[2026-06-06 00:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: City leader invites Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov to be keynote speaker at coming Belt and Road Summit to be held in Hong Kong in September
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[2026-06-06 00:59 UTC+10:00] [Central Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: City leader invites Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov to be keynote speaker at coming Belt and Road Summit to be held in Hong Kong in September
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[2026-06-06 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank
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[2026-06-06 00:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the Senate Committee on Finance, Wednesday, June 3, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
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[2026-06-06 00:45 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A growing divide between fans and team, coupled with economic hardship and war, has dampened the mood
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[2026-06-06 00:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Global capital markets are a mess following this morning's hotter than expected rise in US employment.
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[2026-06-06 00:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: French prosecutors have brought preliminary charges against HSBC’s Swiss unit on allegations that it helped former Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh embezzle funds, a source close to the case confirmed to The National.
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[2026-06-06 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: About 74 per cent of companies surveyed across industries in the Asia-Pacific have deployed or piloted AI programmes
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[2026-06-06 00:16 UTC+10:00] [Meta] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: About 74 per cent of companies surveyed across industries in the Asia-Pacific have deployed or piloted AI programmes
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[2026-06-06 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this photo released by the Roscongress Foundation, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan arrive to attend a plenary session at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday, June 5, 2026. (Vyacheslav Viktorov/Roscongress Foundation via AP)
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[2026-06-06 00:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Amazon has unveiled its latest warehouse robot that can take commands in conversational language, underscoring how AI-powered automation is advancing as companies continue to slash their corporate workforce in AI-driven efficiencies.
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[2026-06-06 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-06 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Chairman of the UAE's Executive Affairs Authority, met senior White House officials this week to review economic investments and the impact of US-UAE partnerships.
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[2026-06-06 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich were banned from traveling to Ireland, Irish media reported on Friday.
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[2026-06-06 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: New institute highlights Beijing’s bid to leapfrog energy bottlenecks and underscores how tech race with US is moving off-planet
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[2026-06-05 23:50 UTC+10:00] [BBC] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Request for evidence to support claims of reputational and financial harm from Panorama documentary dismissed as ‘fishing expedition’
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[2026-06-05 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Call it MAGA SparkNotes for liberals.Both Hollywood and the MAGA movement have their own unique parlance and it’s not hard to see how things can get lost in translation. That’s where producer Chris Fenton (“47 Ronin”) comes into play.Sources tell Page Six Hollywood that a group of industryites that includes Ruth Vitale (Creative Future), Josh Rogin (the Motion Picture Association) and Producers United have enlisted Fenton — a Trump supporter — to spread the word using the appropriate language about
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[2026-06-05 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Attempts by the West to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's defence amount to "stealing" and have accelerated the break-up of the post-war financial order, according to Andrey Kostin, chief executive of Russia's state bank VTB.
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[2026-06-05 23:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-05 23:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The threat of US sanctions is slowing cross-border payments as Chinese banks tighten compliance checks and route transactions through intermediaries
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[2026-06-05 23:15 UTC+10:00] [United Arab Emirates] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The threat of US sanctions is slowing cross-border payments as Chinese banks tighten compliance checks and route transactions through intermediaries
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[2026-06-05 23:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MUMBAI — India's economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first three months of 2026, driven by strong government spending and a robust services sector, official data showed on Friday.
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[2026-06-05 23:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Unemployment remained steady, with the labour market in the world’s largest economy sustaining recent gains
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[2026-06-05 23:09 UTC+10:00] [job growth] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Unemployment remained steady, with the labour market in the world’s largest economy sustaining recent gains
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[2026-06-05 22:38 UTC+10:00] [US economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Government figures show unemployment rate at 4.3% amid rising inflation and economic uncertainty from Iran war
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[2026-06-05 22:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Job growth unexpectedly surged in May as the U.S. labor market continued a solid year of expansion, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
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[2026-06-05 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Dealing with Beijing offers countries such as Canada and India more leverage with the US in addition to economic benefits
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[2026-06-05 22:30 UTC+10:00] [Pakistan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Dealing with Beijing offers countries such as Canada and India more leverage with the US in addition to economic benefits
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[2026-06-05 22:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Imposing additional sanctions on Russia will not help resolve the Ukraine conflict, American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (AmCham Russia) President and CEO Robert Agee has said.
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[2026-06-05 22:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are lower amid fresh underperformance of tech. If the premarket weakness persists, the S&P 500 is set to break a historic weekly run of gains as the AI trade takes another leg lower this time driven by the cartoonish Kospi index, with investors also expecting payrolls data to affirm that interest rates will stay higher for longer (full payrolls preview here).
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[2026-06-05 22:27 UTC+10:00] [Aerospace] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič has called for a new “diversification instrument” to help ensure that industry is not dependent on single sources of supply in sensitive sectors such as chips and rare earths.
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[2026-06-05 22:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The incident occurred in the country's largest port, a strategic gateway for trade and shipping in the region. Authorities said the drone detonated without causing casualties, while emergency services quickly secured the area. The brief broadcast captured the moment the explosion disrupted normal activity in the port and prompted an immediate security response.
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[2026-06-05 22:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: If it was indeed Trump's intention to starve Iran's economy of oil export revenue, the plan may just be working: Iran's oil exports fell to their lowest level in at least six years in May as the US naval blockade has succeeded in choking off crude shipments and leave tens of millions of barrels stranded at sea.
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[2026-06-05 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Domestic brands surge on fresh incentives and better batteries, while foreign carmakers fail to sustain their earlier market share
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[2026-06-05 22:00 UTC+10:00] [EV sales] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Domestic brands surge on fresh incentives and better batteries, while foreign carmakers fail to sustain their earlier market share
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[2026-06-05 21:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: As the opening of the 2026 FIFA World Cup draws near, business and restaurants in New York are preparing for an influx of fans and tourists ahead of the official start next week.
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