Topic: Business — Neutral reports only
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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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[2026-04-20 23:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Shares of AST SpaceMobile plunged the most since February after Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket failed to place the company's BlueBird 7 satellite into its intended orbit during Sunday morning's launch.
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[2026-04-20 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing has so far managed to contain fallout from the Iran war – but policymakers are still moving to reinforce resilience
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[2026-04-20 23:00 UTC+10:00] [People's Daily] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing has so far managed to contain fallout from the Iran war – but policymakers are still moving to reinforce resilience
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[2026-04-20 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-04-20 22:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Kremlin said Monday that a new U.S. sanctions waiver on Russian oil exports proves that the commodity is too vital to the global economy to be sidelined.
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[2026-04-20 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are lower, but well off session lows,after a weekend of chaos in the Strait of Hormuz cast doubt over US-Iran peace talks ahead of Tuesday’s ceasefire expiration. On Saturday, Iran said the Strait will be closed until the US blockade is lifted, with ships reporting attacks. The US then fired and seized an Iranian-flagged ship on Sunday.
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[2026-04-20 22:35 UTC+10:00] [Mark Carney] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Prime minister details efforts to attract investment and sign trade deals with other countries in 10-minute video address
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[2026-04-20 21:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The war with Iran has laid bare one of the global economy's most exposed fault lines. For nearly two months, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped and the countries that depend most heavily on what passes through it are now confronting the full weight of that reliance.
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[2026-04-20 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Psychedelic drug stocks soared in premarket trading in New York after President Trump signed an executive order aimed at accelerating research and expanding access to therapies used for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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[2026-04-20 21:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Estimate from Immigration Department represents 7 per cent increase from last year’s holiday
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[2026-04-20 21:12 UTC+10:00] [scmp] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Estimate from Immigration Department represents 7 per cent increase from last year’s holiday
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[2026-04-20 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Veteran actor’s deal highlights recovery on the secondary market, even as new launches curb momentum
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[2026-04-20 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Chow Yun Fat Company Limited] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Veteran actor’s deal highlights recovery on the secondary market, even as new launches curb momentum
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[2026-04-20 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘All-in’ AI drive cuts profits by 70 per cent, while booming TikTok Shop sales help overseas markets outpace China, reports say
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[2026-04-20 21:00 UTC+10:00] [ByteDance] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘All-in’ AI drive cuts profits by 70 per cent, while booming TikTok Shop sales help overseas markets outpace China, reports say
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[2026-04-20 20:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The areas outlined in orange indicate regions under tsunami warnings, while those marked in yellow show where tsunami advisories have been issued. (Screenshot from JMA's website)
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[2026-04-20 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — Far-right leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella pledged on Monday to "liberate" the French economy by slashing red tape and bureaucracy.
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[2026-04-20 19:07 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has submitted a detailed formal complaint to the Ministry of Mass Media, raising serious concerns over what it describes as the dissemination of false and misleading information by Hiru TV, operated by Asia Broadcasting Corporation (Pvt) Ltd, causing significant harm to the institution, the national economy, and the public.
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[2026-04-20 19:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: PBOC head urges IMF to ‘stand against protectionism’ amid effects from tariffs, Iran war
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[2026-04-20 19:05 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: PBOC head urges IMF to ‘stand against protectionism’ amid effects from tariffs, Iran war
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[2026-04-20 18:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Algeria on Sunday launched a fresh call for international bids for hydrocarbon concessions, seeking to boost energy investment as global markets reel from the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-04-20 18:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong is attracting global investors seeking stability as interest grows in its financial markets, FSDC officials say
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[2026-04-20 18:50 UTC+10:00] [US] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong is attracting global investors seeking stability as interest grows in its financial markets, FSDC officials say
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