Topic: Economy & Finance — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-01 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The U.S stock market motored to more records as profits keep piling up for big businesses.
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[2026-05-01 06:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Reddit reported better-than-expected profit and revenue in its first-quarter earnings report on Thursday, and also issued an optimistic forecast. The stock jumped over 9% in extended trading.
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[2026-05-01 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Toyota unveils an Urban Cruiser electric SUV for the Indian market in Mumbai on April 20. (Photo by Takanori Okabe)
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[2026-05-01 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General Features] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s fragile journey back to economic stability has suffered several damaging blows over US$2.5 million (SL Rs 800 million) payment due as loan payment to Australia remitted to unknown bank accounts . The revelation that US$2.5 million earmarked for an official debt repayment to Australia was diverted to cyber criminals has exposed alarming weaknesses in the country’s financial control systems, treasury safeguards, and institutional accountability.
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[2026-05-01 05:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Following summons issued by the Committee on Public Finance (CoPF) to examine the alleged misdirection of US$ 2.5 million, Treasury Secretary Dr. Harshana Suriyapperuma appeared before the Committee on Public Finance (CoPF) with several senior officials of the Finance Ministry and Central Bank in Parliament yesterday.
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[2026-05-01 05:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga Bodaragama yesterday (30) ordered the further remand of four suspects, including an assistant manager of a private bank, until May 14 in connection with the disappearance of Rs. 13 billion.
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[2026-05-01 05:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A sharp rise in cybercrime has shaken India, where nearly 2.5 million people lost an estimated US$ 25 billion to digital fraud in 2025, highlighting growing risks in the country’s fast-expanding online payment ecosystem.
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[2026-05-01 05:19 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Oil prices whipsawed and surged toward their highest levels since the war with Iran began, only for the leaps to quickly vanish. The US stock market, meanwhile, is rising following strong profit reports from big companies like Alphabet.
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[2026-05-01 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / The economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-05-01 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The iconic Skipping Girl neon sign in Abbotsford sat down, glued to her phone, last month, part of a health campaign funded by the dairy industry to highlight the dangers of our obsession with technology.
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[2026-05-01 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An advertisement for prediction market platform Kalshi hangs at 13th and L Streets in northwest Washington, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert, File)
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[2026-05-01 04:45 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will override scepticism among his own MPs and plough billions into the Suburban Rail Loop even as inflation fears and war-fuelled building costs force the Albanese government to pull back on road and rail projects.
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[2026-05-01 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Hawaiʻi will need nearly 60,000 additional housing units by 2050 to meet future demand driven largely by an aging population and to prevent younger residents from getting squeezed out of the housing market.
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[2026-05-01 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Earlier this month, when much of the attention was largely focused on private credit, we warned that one of the old, familiar credit market time-bombs, commercial real estate which for many years had been penned as the "Next Big Short", was deteriorating rapidly: according to the latest TREPP CMBS monthly report, March saw a surge in the CMBS delinquency rate, which jumped by 41bps to 7.55%, the highest in years, led by a surge in the lodging rate, a category
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[2026-05-01 04:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference at the Federal Reserve, following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, in Washington, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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[2026-05-01 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: For a stock that's gone nowhere for six months, Apple sure has options traders excited.
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[2026-05-01 03:04 UTC+10:00] [Children's health] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Belgium’s federal government on Thursday approved a ban on flavored vapes, with only tobacco-flavored and unflavored e-cigarettes allowed on the market from September 2028.
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[2026-05-01 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A rare, double-wide Gilded Age mansion by Prospect Park in Brooklyn is on the market for $16 million, Gimme Shelter can reveal.
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[2026-05-01 02:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: US inflation accelerated in March as the Iran war raised gasoline prices, bolstering financial market expectations that the Federal Reserve could keep interest rates unchanged well into next year.
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[2026-05-01 02:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Gasoline prices are displayed at a Mobil gas station on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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[2026-05-01 02:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Thirteen individuals have been referred to the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal over a multimillion-dollar scheme to illegally procure military equipment for Sudan’s Armed Forces (SAF) through UAE-based companies and financial channels.
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[2026-05-01 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Christine Quinn and Heather Rae El Moussa are sold on Season 10.
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[2026-05-01 02:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The US economy accelerated at the start of 2026, expanding at a modest 2% pace from January through March after recovering from last fall’s 43-day federal government shutdown. But the outlook is clouded by the Iran war.
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[2026-05-01 02:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Thirteen suspects are to stand trial over a multimillion-dollar plot to buy military equipment and weapons through the UAE's financial system and send them to the Sudanese Armed Forces for use in the country's civil war.
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[2026-05-01 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A for sale sign is posted outside a home, Feb. 10, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, file)
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[2026-05-01 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-01 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-05-01 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE United Arab Emirates (UAE) has opted out of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the cartel that controls the ebb and flow of oil in the global market.
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[2026-05-01 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: No interest rate rise is going to force an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, or clear the "hazardous area" of mines.
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[2026-05-01 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A view of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
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[2026-05-01 01:09 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: May 1, 2026 01:09 | News
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[2026-05-01 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE and South Korea have formally enacted their Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the first of its kind Seoul has signed with a country in the Middle East and North Africa.
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[2026-05-01 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Bank of England policymakers must contend with the "most difficult combination" of economic effects, according to governor Andrew Bailey, as the U.K. faces the consequences of an energy price shock.
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[2026-05-01 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Shares in Domino’s Pizza, KFC operator Collins Foods and multi-brand food franchise owner Retail Food Group have all suffered double-digit falls
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[2026-05-01 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: State media has cast the deal as a security concern, while stressing Beijing remains open to foreign investment
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[2026-05-01 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: State media has cast the deal as a security concern, while stressing Beijing remains open to foreign investment
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[2026-05-01 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: With the Kalshi promo code NYPMAX, you can sign up for Oilers vs. Ducks — or any game in the NHL playoffs — and trade $10 to get $10 in prediction market bonuses.
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[2026-05-01 00:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Bank of England has revealed some interesting details on the ways our finances might be affected as the conflict in the Middle East hits the economy.
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[2026-05-01 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: UN chief Antonio Guterres sounded the alarm on Thursday over the worsening global economic impacts of the Strait of Hormuz remaining effectively closed due to the Iran war.
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[2026-05-01 00:04 UTC+10:00] [Banks] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed ambassador to Australia Pierre-André Imbert as his new chief of staff. He will succeed Emmanuel Moulin, who is now free to run for governor of the Bank of France.
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[2026-05-01 00:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Oman plans to build a new economic area centred on developing its artificial intelligence capabilities, as the sultanate steps up its technology sector to boost its economy.
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[2026-05-01 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: With Brent surging to a new post war high overnight, rising as high as $125 on fear of an imminent resumption of hostilities in Iran, which dragged yields higher, and also pushed the USDJPY above 160 for the first time since late March, overnight Japan made clear - again - it wouldn't take it any more, with the usual round of jawboning.
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[2026-05-01 00:01 UTC+10:00] [Property / News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The nation’s property market was slowing even before the Reserve Bank’s second interest rate rise started hitting home buyers, new figures show, with thousands of dollars wiped from the value of houses in Sydney and Melbourne.
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[2026-04-30 23:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The economy also recovered from last autumn’s 43-day federal shutdown
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[2026-04-30 23:50 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The economy also recovered from last autumn’s 43-day federal shutdown
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[2026-04-30 23:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: We have gone from a "low hire, low fire" economy to "AI chatbot hire, no fire." We joke, but really there is no other way to explain what is going on here: this morning the Dept of Labor reported that in the week ended April 25, jobless claims fell 26k to 189k (from an upward revised 215k), compared with median est.
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[2026-04-30 23:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israel has charged a military officer for smuggling goods and an Israeli citizen into Gaza. His arrest came as part of continuing investigations into a suspected widespread operation that brought items into the besieged strip throughout the course of the Gaza war, fuelling a boom in the black market.
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[2026-04-30 23:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Mourners carried the body of a teenager killed by Israel’s military through the hills of the West Bank ’s largest city on Thursday, the latest victim in a surge of violence this month.
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[2026-04-30 23:11 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: First quarter output, driven by AI investment and government spending, rose as oil shock fuels inflation fears
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[2026-04-30 23:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The Fed's favorite inflation indicator - Core PCE - rose 0.3% MoM in January (as expected), a dip from the 0.4% sequential increase in February, with YoY rising by 3.2% (also as expected), slightly higher than the 3.0% in Feb. That is the highest annual increase in Core PCE since Nov 2023.
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