Topic: Business & Economy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-17 05:01 UTC+10:00] [Business / Workplace] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Ric Marks remembers the moment well, when sustained workload and operational pressures left him exhausted.
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[2026-07-17 05:00 UTC+10:00] [2040 climate target] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — The European Commission will ring the opening bell for the biggest climate bust-up of the year on Friday when it unveils an overhaul of the EU’s carbon market.
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[2026-07-17 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: More Australians are non-smokers than ever, despite a booming illicit tobacco trade enticing remaining smokers to consume more nicotine at cut-rate prices.
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[2026-07-17 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: July 17, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-07-17 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A tower in Little Collins Street has sold for less than half of its $83 million post-pandemic purchase price in a deal that is a brutal, and razor-sharp, haircut for the vendor, an unlisted Lendlease fund.
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[2026-07-17 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE and Senegal aim to make implementation the focus of this year's UN Water Conference, calling for faster action by governments, financial institutions and the private sector to address the worsening global water crisis, a senior Emirati official has said.
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[2026-07-17 04:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israeli companies looking to expand globally should consider Australia as a launchpad, according to Paul Israel, executive director of the Israel-Australia Chamber of Commerce.
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[2026-07-17 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-17 04:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iraq's Ministry of Electricity has warned the country might lose up to 1,400 megawatts of power after the UAE's Dana Gas shut down operations in the Kurdistan region's Khor Mor gasfield due to “credible security threats”.
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[2026-07-17 03:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A report by the Reuters news agency suggesting loud booms were heard on Thursday in Dubai's Business Bay is false, the emirate's media office said.
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[2026-07-17 03:57 UTC+10:00] [Estados Unidos] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O Brasil passará a ter a maior tarifa aplicada pelos Estados Unidos entre os países da América do Sul a partir de 22 de julho, quando passam a valer as novas taxas impostas por Donald Trump nesta quarta-feira (15/07). O dado é do Global Trade Alert (GTA), iniciativa do St.
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[2026-07-17 03:57 UTC+10:00] [Estados Unidos] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O Brasil passará a ter a maior tarifa aplicada pelos Estados Unidos entre os países da América do Sul a partir de 22 de julho, quando passam a valer as novas taxas impostas por Donald Trump nesta quarta-feira (15/07). O dado é do Global Trade Alert (GTA), iniciativa do St.
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[2026-07-17 03:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-17 03:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ben and Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen speaks during an interview about his Free the Cone Day campaign in Burlington, Vt., April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart, File)
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[2026-07-17 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The logo for Merck appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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[2026-07-17 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The global PC market is facing mounting pressure as a worsening memory-chip crunch, limited product availability, and consumers balking at higher prices threaten to deepen the downturn. These headwinds prompted Goldman analysts to "further trim" their PC shipment forecasts for this year and next.
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[2026-07-17 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The first leg of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will connect Tokyo and Nagoya in as little as 40 minutes, less than half the current fastest bullet train. (Central Japan Railway)
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[2026-07-17 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Two different reads on the housing market released Thursday point to the same problem, one that appears to be getting worse. Housing is just too expensive — to own and to build.
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[2026-07-17 03:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Work on Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.'s spent-fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho has dragged on for more than three decades. (Photo by Masatoshi Ida)
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[2026-07-17 02:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-17 02:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's minister of economy, trade and industry, left, shakes hands with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Tokyo on July 16. (Photo by Shintaro Ino)
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[2026-07-17 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Lebanon and Syria will, in the coming months, begin revising decades-old trade agreements to revive their economic relationship following the ouster of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in 2024, Lebanon's economy minister told Reuters on Thursday.
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[2026-07-17 02:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TOKYO — Nvidia said on Thursday it was partnering with Japanese companies including Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric to advance the development of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI).
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[2026-07-17 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DATA center provider Csquare said on Thursday it raised $1.05 billion in its US initial public offering (IPO) as investors continued to back companies expected to benefit from the artificial intelligence boom.
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[2026-07-17 02:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: JPMORGAN Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said on Wednesday that risks posed by Anthropic's Mythos AI model are a "real issue" that the US government is on top of, underscoring concerns about the powerful model that have caused Washington to intervene.
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[2026-07-17 02:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PHILIPPINE Seven Corp. (PSC), the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores in the Philippines, has rolled out upgraded digital payment capabilities to nearly all of its outlets after addressing issues that had affected the reliability of its cashless payment system.
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[2026-07-17 02:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The Strait of Hormuz is once again the scene of fighting, with Iran and the United States States vying for control of the strategic waterway and continuing to trade fire in the early hours of Thursday.
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[2026-07-17 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
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[2026-07-17 02:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-17 02:19 UTC+10:00] [Cryptocurrencies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The entrepreneur is known in Washington as the financial power behind the president’s crypto fortune. How did Sun’s business love-in with the Trump family spiral into dueling lawsuits?
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[2026-07-17 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ASIATEL Outsourcing Inc., a Philippine-based business process outsourcing (BPO) and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) firm, is looking to add up 250 delivery seats in its Manila operations in the next two years as part of its expansion plan, a top executive said.
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[2026-07-17 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The electric garbage trucks in Isuzu's trial program have batteries that can be swapped quickly. (Photo by Seiya Ota)
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[2026-07-17 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, third from right, and Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Ryosei Akazawa, center, at the July 16 announcement of a Japanese AI consortium. (Photo by Shintaro Ino)
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[2026-07-17 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ACER continues its two-decade streak as the Philippines' No. 1 laptop brand. According to Nielsen-GfK data for the first five months of 2026, Acer maintains its dominant position, commanding 37 percent and 34.5 percent market shares in the consumer and gaming laptop segments, respectively.
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[2026-07-17 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: EARLY this week, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag revealed that the agency has created a special task force to investigate alleged irregularities involving infrastructure projects and transactions related to the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.
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[2026-07-17 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Shipping containers are seen ready for transport at the Guangzhou Port in the Nansha district in southern China’s Guangdong province, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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[2026-07-17 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-07-17 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-07-17 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-07-17 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-07-17 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-07-17 01:41 UTC+10:00] [British politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — The swirling speculation about Keir Starmer’s future landed on Shabana Mahmood, his home secretary, at a Westminster Christmas drinks party last December. “She won’t be leader,” whispered one admirer. “But she will be chancellor.”
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[2026-07-17 01:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been the lead regulator on event contract exchanges for over 30 years after it issued a 1992 ruling on the Iowa Electronic Markets, widely recognized as the first prediction market.
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[2026-07-17 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Camp Olivas, City of San Fernando, Pampanga — Authorities seized approximately ₱22 million worth of illegally traded petroleum products and arrested eight individuals during a joint anti-smuggling operation in Barangay San Benito, Dinalupihan, Bataan, in the early hours of July 16, 2026.
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[2026-07-17 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: For the first time in over three years, South Korea’s central bank raised its policy interest rate by 0.25% points to 2.75%, inline with expectations, and kicking off a monetary tightening cycle aimed at containing inflationary pressures spurred by the AI-driven semiconductor boom. It also helped spark a fresh rout in Korean stocks whose daily volatility has become borderline farcical with daily 5% swings having become the norm.
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[2026-07-17 00:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Uber Technologies has agreed to acquire German company Delivery Hero for $14.8 billion in a deal that creates one of the world's biggest food-delivery groups.
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[2026-07-17 00:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed on X late Wednesday night that the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is set to impose a 25% tariff on "most Brazilian imports."
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[2026-07-17 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Satyajit Das via NewIndiaExpress.com,
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[2026-07-17 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: From right: Masanori Yoshida, senior executive officer and global chief at Japan Exchange Group; Asadej Kongsiri, president of the Stock Exchange of Thailand; and Michael Syn, president of Singapore Exchange, take part in a panel discussion at the Nikkei Asia Forum APAC 2026 in Bangkok on July 16. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura)
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[2026-07-17 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Guangdong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: In the first six months to June 30, there were 81 cross-border deals for innovative drugs worth a combined record of US$110 billion
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