Topic: Economy & Finance — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-31 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEJONG, Aug. 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's tax revenue rose by 8.4 trillion won (US$6 billion) in July from a year earlier on higher collections of income and securities transaction taxes, data showed Monday.
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[2026-08-31 11:57 UTC+10:00] [Business / The economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: August 31, 2026 — 11:57am
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[2026-08-31 11:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: China's manufacturing activity in August shrank for a second straight month, though by less than market estimates, keeping the pressure on Beijing to support the economy as growth loses momentum.
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[2026-08-31 11:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korean battery maker SK On said Monday it has signed a long-term deal to supply energy storage system (ESS) battery cells to U.S. firm NeoVolta Power, paving the way for its expansion into the growing ESS market.
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[2026-08-31 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A new foldable iPhone and the Mate XT 2 are coming as analysts predict a double-digit plunge in smartphone shipments this year
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[2026-08-31 11:30 UTC+10:00] [Nabila Popal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A new foldable iPhone and the Mate XT 2 are coming as analysts predict a double-digit plunge in smartphone shipments this year
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[2026-08-31 10:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Galbot’s outlets in Hung Hom, Kai Tak and Wan Chai will be its first outside mainland China, with plans for 10 more outlets
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[2026-08-31 10:43 UTC+10:00] [Galbot] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Galbot’s outlets in Hung Hom, Kai Tak and Wan Chai will be its first outside mainland China, with plans for 10 more outlets
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[2026-08-31 10:36 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Energy officials from South Korea and the United States discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the energy sector amid heightened global market uncertainties, Seoul's climate ministry said Monday.
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[2026-08-31 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Yonhap) -- Energy officials from South Korea and the United States discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the energy sector amid heightened global market uncertainties, Seoul's climate ministry said Monday.
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[2026-08-31 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Consul General Eric Teo calls for ‘win-win collaboration’ in wealth management despite competing tax packages to attract capital
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[2026-08-31 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Consul General Eric Teo calls for ‘win-win collaboration’ in wealth management despite competing tax packages to attract capital
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[2026-08-31 09:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: One US study suggests around 15% of siblings have had conflicts over money
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[2026-08-31 09:08 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: August 31, 2026 09:08 | News
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[2026-08-31 09:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Finn Joughin, the student activist arrested in Umm Al-Kheir on Saturday
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[2026-08-31 07:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Asheville, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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[2026-08-31 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Flurry of commercial activity offers opportunities for Hong Kong’s financial markets, research universities and the Northern Metropolis
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[2026-08-31 07:30 UTC+10:00] [LandSpace] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Flurry of commercial activity offers opportunities for Hong Kong’s financial markets, research universities and the Northern Metropolis
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[2026-08-31 07:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Seven Palestinians have been wounded in the occupied West Bank village of al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah, most of them by live ammunition, local sources told Al Jazeera. It remains unclear whether the rounds were fired by Israeli forces or Israeli settlers.
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[2026-08-31 07:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Wall Street closed the week in retreat after comments from US Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh about inflation saw interest rate head higher and equity markets lower.
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[2026-08-31 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Long priced out of Australia's property market, young homebuyers must still rely on the bank of mum and dad even though costs are coming down for the first time in decades. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Ken Kobayashi and AP)
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[2026-08-31 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the extremist settlers in the West Bank Palestinian village of Kusra as coming from "all kinds of hardships from home," during an interview with Channel 14's "The Patriots" broadcast on Sunday evening.
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[2026-08-31 05:22 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The bond market swung Friday as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation’s high inflation under control. US stocks, meanwhile, dipped but not by much after economists said a speech by Chairman Kevin Warsh helped strengthen faith that the Fed will do what’s needed to bring inflation down, even if it causes pain for the economy in the short term.
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[2026-08-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australia’s financial watchdog says insurance companies are increasingly settling claims on home damage with cash payouts that are sometimes so low they won’t fund the repairs disaster-stricken customers need.
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[2026-08-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: NSW has enjoyed a prolonged period of labour market strength.
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[2026-08-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The St Kilda home of Melbourne legend Ron Barassi and his wife, Cherryl, is being sold, three years after the AFL great’s death, with his family saying it is “time to pass the torch”.
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[2026-08-31 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: SpaceX is making an aggressive push into the power generation market, with The Information reporting that Elon Musk is preparing to address one of the most critical bottlenecks threatening America's data-center buildout: the shortage of advanced gas turbine components, particularly the blades and vanes needed to power massive data center campuses.
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[2026-08-31 03:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: At least two Palestinians were wounded when Israeli forces fired live ammunition during a settler attack near al-Mughayyir village in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported, citing Palestinian medical sources.
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[2026-08-31 03:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China this year saw a record 12.7 million fresh university graduates.
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[2026-08-31 03:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates and Egyptian central banks are coordinating with regard to Banque Misr, they said on Sunday, after the US Treasury said it was cutting off all the bank's UAE branches from dollar transactions over its dealings with Iran.
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[2026-08-31 02:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli settlers forcibly detained a British activist in the village of Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank.
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[2026-08-31 02:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Casper Ruud from Norway exits the court after being eliminated by Joao Fonseca from Brazil on day six of the National Bank Open tennis tournament in Montreal on Friday, August 7, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
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[2026-08-31 02:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Insular Life, the nation's first and largest Filipino life insurance company, is aggressively reshaping the country's financial landscape by turning the historically complex process of buying insurance into a frictionless digital experience.
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[2026-08-31 02:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AIA Philippines, formerly Philam Life and the Philippine arm of leading multinational insurer AIA Group, and BPI AIA Life Assurance Corporation (BPI AIA), the bancassurance partnership between AIA Philippines and the Bank of the Philippine Islands, recorded a combined 458 Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) qualifiers in 2026—the highest in the Philippines—while also earning places among the Top 100 MDRT companies worldwide.
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[2026-08-31 02:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE Central Bank and the Central Bank of Egypt on Sunday said branches of Banque Misr in the Emirates were "conducting all their business as usual", after the US raised money-laundering concerns.
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[2026-08-31 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LOWER energy costs and prices of some food items could have pulled inflation down for a fourth straight month in August, analysts said.
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[2026-08-31 02:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE stock market could see a rebound when trading resumes on Tuesday as bargain hunters return after the steepest weekly decline so far this year.
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[2026-08-31 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is proposing changes to its discount window facility (DWF) to make it easier and faster for banks to obtain liquidity support during periods of financial stress.
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[2026-08-31 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Getting sick in the Philippines is no longer just a health concern. For many families, it has become a financial emergency.
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[2026-08-31 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has shifted applications for public offerings fully online, with a processing period of just 40 days, as part of efforts to speed up the share offering process and make it easier for companies to raise funds through the capital market.
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[2026-08-31 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A wave of coordinated Israeli settler attacks swept across the occupied West Bank over the weekend, leaving dozens of Palestinians injured and properties torched.
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[2026-08-31 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Would like to seek legal advice regarding the money that I lent to my friend. We agreed that he will return it with interest of 10 percent after a year. After the lapse of one year, however, he failed to pay the said loan with interest as discussed. To show that he will not run from his obligation, we executed a formal contract of loan where it was stipulated, among others, that he will exert his best effort to pay
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[2026-08-31 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
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[2026-08-31 01:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli forces have shut the only entrance to the occupied West Bank village of al-Mughayyir for more than 20 consecutive hours, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
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[2026-08-30 23:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE and Lebanon have revived a joint business council aimed at increasing trade and investment, and developing new partnerships between companies in the two countries.
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[2026-08-30 23:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States has said it will cut off the UAE operations of Banque Misr from the US financial system after accusing Egypt’s second-biggest bank of doing business with the Iranian government.
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[2026-08-30 23:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: When people ask me what causes the most damage in a relationship, they expect me to list out the usual suspects, like financial trouble or intimacy problems. And they're not wrong to guess that, since both money and sex come up constantly in research on conflict.
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[2026-08-30 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: As the U.S. and Canada stare down tens of billions of dollars in dueling tariff regimes as a result of President Trump's new trade war against the nation's second-biggest trading partner, companies, economists, and investors are back in the game of attempting to forecast the level of volatility to expect on corporate balance sheets and in stock prices.
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[2026-08-30 22:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli military sources have voiced concern that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be deliberately escalating tensions in the occupied West Bank ahead of elections, Haaretz is reporting.
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[2026-08-30 22:14 UTC+10:00] [US Open Tennis 2026] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Record crowds, premium seats and an unchecked resale market have are transforming the self-styled people’s slam – and leaving ordinary fans fighting to get through the gates
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