Topic: Business & Economy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-06-03 15:30 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Since the start of US President Donald Trump’s second term, a Republican-controlled Congress has confirmed almost all his controversial nominees, ceded trade authority to the White House and largely acquiesced as the president started a hugely unpopular war in Iran.
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[2026-06-03 15:28 UTC+10:00] [Republicans] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Disgraced former congressman said to have put bet on whether he would be at Trump’s State of the Union speech
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[2026-06-03 15:23 UTC+10:00] [Finance] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-06-03 15:21 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: June 3, 2026 15:21 | News
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[2026-06-03 15:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Bitcoin declined Wednesday to its lowest levels since February as other asset classes continued to lure investors away from cryptocurrencies.
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[2026-06-03 15:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: India's central bank may defy expectations that it will leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged during its monetary policy decision meeting on Friday.
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[2026-06-03 15:04 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Pacgold Limited has unveiled a strategic demerger of its non-core North Queensland gold assets, relinquishing control to roll the projects into a soon-to-be-listed and powerfully backed Manda Resources.
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[2026-06-03 15:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US Republican Representative Thomas Massie criticised Washington’s continued financial support for Israel and downplayed reports of a heated exchange between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[2026-06-03 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son told CNBC this week that physical AI and robotics were where he saw the next trillion-dollar company emerging from.
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[2026-06-03 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: 1886 -- Korea signs a treaty of commerce and amity with France, legalizing French business and religious activities in the country. The period from 1876 until the fall of the Joseon Dynasty in 1910 is referred to as an open-door era, when the country opened its ports and built commercial ties with Japan, the United States, Britain, Germany, Russia and France.
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[2026-06-03 14:49 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Qantas’ Project Sunrise plane made its first test flight over France, as the airline stretches out the timeline on the delivery of the landmark service.
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[2026-06-03 14:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A container ship passes under the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California on April 9. © Reuters
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[2026-06-03 14:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on urges senators to 'get back to work' after the Senate failed to convene for two days due to an impasse between the majority and minority blocs. 'I’m afraid all these events that we have been witnessing has thrown the Senate and its leadership, the whole Senate into disarray.
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[2026-06-03 14:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: India allocated 10.4 gigawatts of standalone battery energy storage system capacity in 2025, but analysts estimate that about 75% of this is at risk of not being built due to underbidding. © Getty Images
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[2026-06-03 14:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Hong Kong-listed biotech company rose as much as 29 per cent after rejecting suggestions it poses a national security risk
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[2026-06-03 14:14 UTC+10:00] [Genscript] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Hong Kong-listed biotech company rose as much as 29 per cent after rejecting suggestions it poses a national security risk
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[2026-06-03 14:11 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Gateway Mining has strengthened the case for a district-scale gold discovery at its flagship 1780-square-kilometre Yandal gold project in Western Australia after reporting a string of high-grade first-pass intercepts from southern structural corridors, a whopping 20 kilometres south of previous drilling at its Mustang prospect.
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[2026-06-03 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Young people] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: With the constant risk of being recorded, many young people are afraid of showing enthusiasm – let alone doing something so potentially embarrassing as dancing in public. Is there a way to set themselves free?
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[2026-06-03 13:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shake hands after reaching a trade deal at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, on July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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[2026-06-03 13:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Pudu CEO and founder Felix Zhang told Nikkei Asia that the Shenzhen-based robotics company is preparing to list in Hong Kong. (Photo by Kensaku Ihara)
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[2026-06-03 13:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us
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[2026-06-03 13:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has proposed additional tariffs of up to 12.5% on imports from 60 economies over their failure to ban goods made with forced labor, in a sweeping action that would hurt most trading partners including China, the European Union and Japan.
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[2026-06-03 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Strong demand for memory chips has reshaped South Korea’s exports to China – but analysts warn the gains could be short lived
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[2026-06-03 13:00 UTC+10:00] [DRAM] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Strong demand for memory chips has reshaped South Korea’s exports to China – but analysts warn the gains could be short lived
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[2026-06-03 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: My March 30 column on why the Iran war wouldn’t hammer stocks or global economies for long triggered scepticism. War fear is understandable. However, this sentiment really shows the “Wall of Worry” bull markets proverbially climb remains high. Let us explore.
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[2026-06-03 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: China is undertaking a vast effort to reshape its western frontier, transforming Xinjiang and Tibet from remote borderlands into strategic hubs for industry, energy, tourism and trade, according to a new lengthy report from Financial Times.
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[2026-06-03 12:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Kioxia shares have risen from 169th to second in Japan by market capitalization within a year. (Source photos by Shintaro Ino and Kazuhiro Noguchi)
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[2026-06-03 12:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The market may be in full-blown face-ripping bubble mode, and software stocks are now gripped in by a category 5 gamma squeeze hurricane, but not even that is helping the ongoing debacle that is private credit.
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[2026-06-03 12:43 UTC+10:00] [South Korea] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: South Korea’s Kospi stock market has hit record highs thanks to AI, but experts urge caution over boom-bust cycles and a heavy reliance on two chipmakers
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[2026-06-03 12:07 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Australian economy expanded by 0.3 per cent through the first three months, driven by consumer spending and businesses rolling out data centres to harness the AI revolution.
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[2026-06-03 12:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-06-03 12:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A board above the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange displays the closing number for the Dow Jones industrial average, Friday, May 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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[2026-06-03 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: June 3, 2026 — 12:00pm
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[2026-06-03 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Small and middle-sized companies (SMEs) make up more than 95 per cent of businesses in the UAE and contribute more than 60 per cent of the country’s non-oil GDP. But despite that, the UAE still has relatively few SMEs growing up to become large private companies.
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[2026-06-03 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — EU countries risk mass job losses in the coming years as high energy costs, industrial restructuring and the green transition weigh on the economy, the European Commission is set to warn.
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[2026-06-03 11:55 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-06-03 11:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Hello, this is Dylan Butts writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to the new edition of the Daily Open newsletter.
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[2026-06-03 11:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Economic Growth
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[2026-06-03 11:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Canada has formally requested a renewal of the North American free trade agreement with the US and Mexico, called the USMCA, as the July deadline to renegotiate the pact looms.
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[2026-06-03 11:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Australia's economy expanded less than expected in the first quarter, as subdued household spending, a pullback in government consumption and severe weather disruptions to mining and exports weighed on growth.
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[2026-06-03 11:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — A business group called on the Senate to resume its duties, saying, "The nation cannot move forward if one of its most important democratic institutions remains at a standstill."
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[2026-06-03 11:23 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Korea's first single-stock leveraged products reach trading levels rarely seen in global markets, prompting concerns over market distortions
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[2026-06-03 11:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration on Tuesday formally appealed a judge's order for refunds of the US president's global tariffs after they were struck down by the Supreme Court earlier this year.
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[2026-06-03 11:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: NEW YORK (AP) — A prediction market reported U.S. Rep. George Santos to federal prosecutors after he boasted he’d be going to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, then bet against his own attendance, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
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[2026-06-03 11:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, June 3 (Yonhap) -- The total number of buy- and sell-side sidecars triggered on the main bourse this year has reached its highest level since the 2008 global financial crisis, reflecting growing market volatility, the bourse operator said Wednesday.
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[2026-06-03 11:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: South Korea's stock market has already doubled this year, but some strategists say the rally may still have room to run as the country's artificial intelligence-linked chip giants continue to power earnings growth.
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[2026-06-03 10:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, June 3 (Yonhap) -- Four robot-related companies listed on South Korea's main bourse have seen their shares jump 155 percent on average this year amid a global boom in the physical artificial intelligence industry, data showed Wednesday.
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[2026-06-03 10:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Oil prices rose Wednesday as investors weighed uncertainty over U.S.-Iran talks with the two countries launching fresh strikes Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump said negotiations with Tehran were ongoing.
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[2026-06-03 10:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-06-03 10:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The government approved a plan put forth by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday, which included three proposals to the government calling for 13 billion shekels to strengthen towns along the Lebanon border.
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