Topic: Business — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-21 15:03 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-04-21 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Exclusive Content] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-04-21 13:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s official youth jobless rate climbed to 16.9 per cent in March, with another 12.7 million graduates set to enter the job market this summer
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[2026-04-21 13:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s official youth jobless rate climbed to 16.9 per cent in March, with another 12.7 million graduates set to enter the job market this summer
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[2026-04-21 13:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Trader Michael Milano, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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[2026-04-21 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The broader impact of the Iran war could weigh more heavily on the UAE's economy than a traditional oil shock, International Monetary Fund regional director Jihad Azour has said.
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[2026-04-21 12:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: One year ago, in the immediate aftermath of Trump's Liberation Day tariffs, there was a flurry of discussion over who is more reliant on whom: the US on Chinese rare earth materials, or China on US ethane output (see "Chinese Plastics Factories Face Mass Closure As US Ethane Supply Evaporates" and "Who Blinks First?
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[2026-04-21 12:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: AI-linked companies like SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, whose Galaxy models are shown, are driving the stock market. (Photo by Nami Matsuura)
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[2026-04-21 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: It’s not just the inflation dragon who’s fired up
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[2026-04-21 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The South China Morning Post examines 22 firms opening or expanding in the city, with HK$73 billion in investment and 25,000 jobs expected
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[2026-04-21 11:30 UTC+10:00] [scmp] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The South China Morning Post examines 22 firms opening or expanding in the city, with HK$73 billion in investment and 25,000 jobs expected
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[2026-04-21 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The firm still relies on overseas suppliers for some critical parts, while labour shortages also pose problems, a company source says
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[2026-04-21 11:30 UTC+10:00] [GE Aerospace] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The firm still relies on overseas suppliers for some critical parts, while labour shortages also pose problems, a company source says
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[2026-04-21 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As emerging markets chart their own destinies regarding artificial intelligence, the city can serve as a nexus for responsible governance
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[2026-04-21 11:30 UTC+10:00] [Alibaba] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As emerging markets chart their own destinies regarding artificial intelligence, the city can serve as a nexus for responsible governance
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[2026-04-21 11:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Taken from CNBC’s Daily Open, our international markets newsletter — Subscribe today
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[2026-04-21 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Operator of Wellcome, Mannings, 7-Eleven and Ikea tackles crisis with key initiatives but Sa Sa warns of pressure on beauty items derived from petroleum
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[2026-04-21 10:30 UTC+10:00] [FedEx] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Operator of Wellcome, Mannings, 7-Eleven and Ikea tackles crisis with key initiatives but Sa Sa warns of pressure on beauty items derived from petroleum
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[2026-04-21 10:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Oil prices jumped, and global equities pulled back on Monday as markets grew increasingly concerned that the ceasefire between the US and Iran might not hold, while tensions over the Strait of Hormuz escalated.
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[2026-04-21 09:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Asia-Pacific markets were set to open higher Tuesday amid hopes for a resolution to the Middle East conflict, even as tensions between Iran and the U.S. continue to simmer. "Trump, by imposing a siege and violating the ceasefire, seeks to turn this negotiating table— in his own imagination— into a table of surrender or to justify renewed warmongering," Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a X post.
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[2026-04-21 09:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: This report is from this week's CNBC's The China Connection newsletter, which brings you insights and analysis on what's driving the world's second-largest economy. You can subscribe here.
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[2026-04-21 09:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: World has ‘firmly entered’ the clean growth era, with renewables overtaking coal as a power source for the first time last year, report finds
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[2026-04-21 09:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: World has ‘firmly entered’ the clean growth era, with renewables overtaking coal as a power source for the first time last year, report finds
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[2026-04-21 06:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Confirming long-standing rumors of Tim Cook's replacement, after hours Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO and become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directorsm while John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering whose name has been speculated as the next boss of Apple, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effective on September 1, 2026.
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[2026-04-21 06:16 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-04-21 05:49 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The administration aims to double the economy to $200 billion and increase per capita income to $10,000 within a decade by strengthening the production economy and implementing fiscal reforms, Dr. Harshana Suriyapperuma, Secretary to the Treasury told a CEO Forum held in Colombo recently.
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[2026-04-21 05:48 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The United States is committed to expanding trade, opening markets for American exports, and championing private sector-led growth, when countries create transparent systems, strengthen rule of law, and create predictable regulatory environments, American businesses respond with investment, innovation, and long-term partnership, Charge D’Affaires Jayne Howell, US Embassy in Sri Lanka told a CEO Forum held in Sri Lanka recently.
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[2026-04-21 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Jesse Coghlan via CoinTelegraph.com,
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[2026-04-21 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s plantation economy is standing on a fragile foundation—its soils. While the country continues to export globally respected tea, rubber, and coconut products, a silent crisis is unfolding beneath our feet. Decades of over-reliance on chemical inputs, declining organic matter, and poor soil management have reduced soil organic carbon levels in many estates to critically low levels.
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[2026-04-21 05:21 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Oil prices are climbing following the latest rise of tensions between the United States and Iran, but the moves are more modest than they were earlier in the war. US stocks, meanwhile, are giving back a bit of their record-breaking rally.
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[2026-04-21 04:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
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[2026-04-21 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UAE asked the US to provide a financial lifeline to the country in case the US-Israeli war on Iran dented its economy, even as it warned the US it could replace the petrodollar with Chinese Yuan, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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[2026-04-21 03:21 UTC+10:00] [Oil] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: FTSE 100 slides and UK gas prices up amid fears strait of Hormuz will be closed for extended period
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[2026-04-21 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Last November, we warned that storms clouds were gathering over the torrid, and in some cases chaotic, rollout of US data centers, after Fermi's massive 11 GW energy and data center project in Texas, called Project Matador, which the company has envisioned to be the world's largest AI data center and energy campus in the Texas Panhandle, near Amarillo, was struggling to close the deal with its first major data center tenant (and since Fermi is set up as REIT
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[2026-04-21 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Polymarket is offering NY Post readers with a $20 bonus when they create an account on their prediction platform using the Polymarket promo code NYPMAX.
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[2026-04-21 02:01 UTC+10:00] [John Oliver] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Last Week Tonight host dug into the rapidly expanding, poorly regulated free-for-all of ‘prediction markets’ like Kalshi and Polymarket
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[2026-04-21 01:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Africa has experienced an acceleration of its economic and digital transformations over the last decade.
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[2026-04-21 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Shares of Tyson Foods and Smithfield Foods fell in late-morning trading in New York after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department's antitrust division has opened a criminal probe into major meatpackers.
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[2026-04-21 01:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Japan issues tsunami warning for north and northeast prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori and Iwate, after quake strikes at 4.53pm
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[2026-04-21 01:02 UTC+10:00] [Sanriku Coast] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Japan issues tsunami warning for north and northeast prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori and Iwate, after quake strikes at 4.53pm
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[2026-04-21 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank
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[2026-04-21 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: As the war in Iran enters its 8th week, Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid says that recent developments can be framed in two ways: either five steps forward towards peace and three back (seems more apt than three and two), or as evidence that the two sides remain far enough apart that a lasting deal will be extremely hard to achieve and markets have become far too optimistic.
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[2026-04-21 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Climate crisis] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Climate leaders say Democrats need to extol clean energy as a way to cut costs for Americans as war roils oil markets
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[2026-04-21 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Drawing comparisons with UK’s watershed ‘Suez moment’ in 1950s, report says US now ‘wedged’ in strait and searching for a way out
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[2026-04-21 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Citic Securities] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Drawing comparisons with UK’s watershed ‘Suez moment’ in 1950s, report says US now ‘wedged’ in strait and searching for a way out
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[2026-04-21 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Modern aviation rests on a deceptively fragile foundation. The system appears seamless to the traveller: aircraft depart, cross continents and arrive according to carefully orchestrated schedules. Yet beneath this apparent stability lies a complex web of airspace agreements, geopolitical assumptions and operational dependencies. When those assumptions break down, aviation can be disrupted with remarkable speed.
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[2026-04-20 23:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Centre for Food Safety is investigating the omission of gluten from ingredients list as the importer recalls the batch as a precaution
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[2026-04-20 23:49 UTC+10:00] [Authentic Greek Yogurt with Vanilla] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Centre for Food Safety is investigating the omission of gluten from ingredients list as the importer recalls the batch as a precaution
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[2026-04-20 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: USA Rare Earth Inc. is acquiring Brazil’s Serra Verde Group in a roughly $2.8 billion cash-and-stock deal, part of a broader push by the U.S. and its allies to secure independent supplies of critical minerals, according to CNBC and Bloomberg.
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[2026-04-20 23:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: "Complacent" investors risk getting wrong-footed as they continue to misread developments in the Iran war, analysts said after markets reacted to the brief reopening of the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, only for their hopes to be dashed.
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