Topic: Business — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-30 19:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE -Clouds cover the sky over the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
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[2026-04-30 19:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama issued verbal warnings against the weak yen on Thursday. (Photo by Jo Ishibuchi)
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[2026-04-30 19:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The euro zone economy expanded by a meager 0.1% in the first quarter of the year, preliminary data showed on Thursday, as the Iran war hampers growth in the region and inflation pressures intensify.
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[2026-04-30 19:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The head of the International Energy Agency has sounded the alarm over spiralling oil prices, warning of a deepening global economic shock as conflict in the Middle East disrupts markets.
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[2026-04-30 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pacts include airworthiness standards for long-haul aircraft, together with Hong Kong and Macau, aiding efforts to expand international operations for Comac’s jets
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[2026-04-30 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pacts include airworthiness standards for long-haul aircraft, together with Hong Kong and Macau, aiding efforts to expand international operations for Comac’s jets
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[2026-04-30 18:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The war in Iran might as well be over for investors as positive sentiment, strong corporate earnings and the AI boom lift Asian markets
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[2026-04-30 18:30 UTC+10:00] [data centres] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The war in Iran might as well be over for investors as positive sentiment, strong corporate earnings and the AI boom lift Asian markets
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[2026-04-30 18:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Did the UAE just trigger a once in a century shift in global energy markets? The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday said it was quitting OPEC by May 1st after 60 years as a member, dealing a blow to the cartel as the Iran war exposes discord among Gulf nations and Iran.
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[2026-04-30 17:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The yen at one point depreciated to 160.48 per dollar during New York trading on April 29. (Photo by Koji Uema)
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[2026-04-30 17:30 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-04-30 17:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Wah Fu Petroleum Company executive pledges to pass on subsidy to customers, while taxi union leader praises government for quick intervention
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[2026-04-30 17:11 UTC+10:00] [diesel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Wah Fu Petroleum Company executive pledges to pass on subsidy to customers, while taxi union leader praises government for quick intervention
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[2026-04-30 16:03 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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[2026-04-30 15:57 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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[2026-04-30 15:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Earlier this month, the Bank of Israel slashed its growth forecast for this year, citing the hostilities in the Middle East.
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[2026-04-30 15:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: LONDON — European stocks are expected to open in negative territory on Thursday as investors digest the latest reports on the Iran war and await more earnings and central bank decisions.
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[2026-04-30 14:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A gas price is displayed as a customer holds a fuel pump nozzle before filling up her vehicle’s gas tank at a gas station, in Lincolnshire, Ill., Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, file)
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[2026-04-30 14:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Despite record losses, Shenzhen Metro said its operations, cash flow and debt-servicing ability remain unaffected. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Wataru Suzuki, Getty Images and Reuters)
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[2026-04-30 13:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Tugboats push a crude oil tanker into position at a pier handling oil imports in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (Chinatopix Via AP) CHINA OUT
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[2026-04-30 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Tuesday’s announcement by the UAE that it will withdraw from Opec tomorrow brings the curtain down on an association that has lasted more than five decades. Although the formal end of any relationship can heighten feelings and fuel uncertainty, the reality is that the Emirates are bidding farewell to an arrangement that was built for a different era.
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[2026-04-30 12:55 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Oil markets spooked as Donald Trump appears willing to maintain the US Navy blockade and Iran keeps strait of Hormuz all but shut
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[2026-04-30 12:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Industry leaders say slight increases in fuel surcharges for flights to Asian destinations ‘not the main driver’ behind Hongkongers heading to mainland
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[2026-04-30 12:30 UTC+10:00] [Dongguan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Industry leaders say slight increases in fuel surcharges for flights to Asian destinations ‘not the main driver’ behind Hongkongers heading to mainland
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[2026-04-30 12:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The yen at one point depreciated to 160.48 per dollar during New York trading on April 29. (Photo by Koji Uema)
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[2026-04-30 11:45 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said Thursday that financial institutions have sufficient capacity to withstand crisis scenarios despite volatility in financial and foreign exchange markets.
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[2026-04-30 11:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said Thursday that financial institutions have sufficient capacity to withstand crisis scenarios despite volatility in financial and foreign exchange markets.
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[2026-04-30 11:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: By Philip Marey, senior US strategist at Rabobank
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[2026-04-30 11:24 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australia’s largest supermarket chain says higher prices are already flowing into fresh produce, milk, bread and other staples as the fuel crisis drives up inflation across the economy and, in response, Woolworths says it will freeze prices on 300 items for three months from Friday.
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[2026-04-30 11:14 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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[2026-04-30 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China expects to handle a record 304 million cross-regional trips per day over the holiday, as the government focuses on boosting consumption
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[2026-04-30 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Gao Bo] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China expects to handle a record 304 million cross-regional trips per day over the holiday, as the government focuses on boosting consumption
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[2026-04-30 10:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The yen at one point depreciated to 160.48 per dollar during New York trading on April 29. (Photo by Koji Uema)
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[2026-04-30 09:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Asia-Pacific markets were poised to open lower Thursday, tracking overnight losses in key Wall Street benchmarks as oil prices extended gains amid a U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, while the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady.
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[2026-04-30 09:08 UTC+10:00] [BUSINESS] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday he will stay on as a central bank governor for an undetermined period of time when his leadership term ends next month, amid hopes that ongoing political attacks on the institution will start to settle down.
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[2026-04-30 08:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms, is winding down its federal government audit business after losing a $64 million-a-year U.S. Army audit contract, a major setback as the Department of War under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to bring in another accounting firm.
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[2026-04-30 08:37 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Google, Microsoft and Amazon report gains in cloud-computing businesses while Meta spending draws concern
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[2026-04-30 07:28 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Jerome Powell said he plans to remain on the board of the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends next month “for an undetermined period of time,” saying the “unprecedented” legal attacks by the Trump administration have put the independence of the nation’s central bank at risk.
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[2026-04-30 07:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The last of the giga-caps to report today, the increasingly more misnamed Meta Platforms, had some good news to report for the just completed Q1. It also had bad news, and judging by the plunge in the stock price, the market is focusing on the latter.
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[2026-04-30 06:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: In our preview of Amazon's earnings, we summarized sentiment as "Bullish, But Concerns Remain" with JPM noting that client "conversations were heavily AWS-skewed with investor focus on degree of acceleration and cloud $ re-capture driven by core workloads, AI, & new partnerships. Still, some concerns remain on broader AI positioning/strategy, Trainium traction, & gap to Azure/Google Cloud growth.
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[2026-04-30 06:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Google shares are rallying after hours as parent Alphabet's first-quarter earnings report showed strong revenue growth in cloud computing and internet search ads, helping investors look past slowing profits amid huge AI spend.
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[2026-04-30 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Heading into the "biggest earnings day ever", MSFT was near the bottom of the Mag7 group, down 22% from its 52-week high, with capacity constraints hampering growth and CapEx concerns weighing down the stock.
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[2026-04-30 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Energy prices are projected to surge by 24% this year to their highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as the war in the Middle East sends a severe shock through global commodity markets, according to the World Bank Group’s latest Commodity Markets Outlook. Overall commodity prices are forecast to rise 16% in 2026, driven by soaring energy and fertilizer prices and record-high prices for several key metals.
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[2026-04-30 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: British Cosmetics (Private) Limited, one of Sri Lanka’s leading manufacturers of premium skincare, cosmetics and personal care products, has entered into a strategic partnership with Ethera Business LLC to support a disciplined expansion into international markets.
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[2026-04-30 05:15 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Oil prices kept spurting higher and neared their highest levels since 2022. The leap, along with hints that some Federal Reserve officials don’t want to cut interest rates any time soon, sent tremors through the US bond market, but US stocks dipped only modestly.
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[2026-04-30 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The kneejerk reaction from Wall Street pundits is that the bar for the Federal Reserve to hike rates is still relatively high and there’s no need for the Fed to change its bias or react in a meaningful way: that's the view voiced by SocGen's US Research Head Subadra Rajappa, who said on BBG TV that the "US is in a very good position overall"
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[2026-04-30 04:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: With Kevin Warsh having won the backing of the Senate Banking Committee on a 13-11 party-line vote to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, it's pretty much a done deal that this will be Jerome Powell's final press conference as Fed Chair.
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[2026-04-30 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday as rising oil prices due to the Iran war added to growing concerns over the inflation outlook.
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[2026-04-30 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Since the last FOMC meeting (on March 18), gold has been clubbed like a baby seal ("EM piggy bank") while stocks and oil have surged (with the former ignoring the peril of the latter)...
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[2026-04-30 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: After decades of membership, the United Arab Emirates has decided to quit the oil producers’ group, OPEC, in order to focus on “national interests” and forge its own path, it has said. The move is seen as a major blow to the Vienna-based oil cartel – but will not spell the end of it altogether, observers say.
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