Topic: Economy & Finance — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-18 09:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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[2026-05-18 09:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Friday was the 15th of the month 45 days after quarter end, which means we got a flood of 13F reports indicating what asset managers were long as of March 31. We will do a summary recap below of all the biggest names, but as usual we start with Berkshire due to its traditional lack of turnover and corresponding price impact of the stock of new positions or liquidations.
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[2026-05-18 08:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has enforced a new law mandating the death penalty for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, after the commander of its Central Command Major General Avi Bluth signed the military order required to activate the measure on Sunday.
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[2026-05-18 07:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic... 2026 could end up being a pivotal year for the IPO market, driven by tech giants whose valuations could shatter all records.
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[2026-05-18 07:26 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Police laid 2,063 charges and conducted 1,847 bail compliance checks in operation targeting offenders with a history of domestic violence. Follow today’s news live
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[2026-05-18 07:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Financial Markets
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[2026-05-18 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: SEOUL/HO CHI MINH CITY/JAKARTA -- In April, global index provider FTSE Russell included South Korea in its flagship World Government Bond Index (WGBI). In response, foreign investors poured roughly 15.1 trillion won ($10.1 billion) into South Korean government debt, triggering celebrations in Seoul.
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[2026-05-18 06:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s Central Command chief, Major General Avi Bluth, has signed an order extending the application of Israel’s death penalty law to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-05-18 06:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Bain Capital sees Japan as an important market in Asia. (Photo by Nikkei)
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[2026-05-18 05:18 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The US stock market fell from its records on Friday and joined a worldwide drop for stocks after higher oil prices sent a shiver through the bond market. Stocks that had been caught up in the euphoria around artificial-intelligence technology led the way lower.
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[2026-05-18 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Economy & Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-05-18 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: What the Real Estate Board of New York calls “The Invisible Engine” of the city’s economy — i.e., the contribution of real estate and real estate-related taxes to the municipal coffers — is invisible only to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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[2026-05-18 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
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[2026-05-18 03:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Republicans still resoundingly approve of President Trump’s handling of inflation, though that support has been eroding as the broader public’s feelings on the economy soured dramatically, according to a new poll.
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[2026-05-18 02:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: An EU proposal to drastically cut its steel import quota in response to global overcapacity and the shrinking of local manufacturing will hurt Kiev, Ukrainian manufacturers and officials have told the Financial Times.
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[2026-05-18 02:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: An EU proposal to drastically cut its steel import quota in response to global overcapacity and the shrinking of local manufacturing will hurt Kiev, Ukrainian manufacturers and officials have told the Financial Times.
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[2026-05-18 01:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Syria's new central bank governor Safwat Raslan has promised to work on raising living standards in his first public remarks since the sudden removal of his predecessor, as hardship persists 18 months into the post-Bashar Al Assad era.
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[2026-05-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Health] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Cigarettes kill 66 Australians every day, coalition says, criticising MPs who heard evidence from Philip Morris in secret
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[2026-05-18 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Malaysia's former Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli, right, and former Natural Resources and Environment Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad shake hands during an event in Kuala Lumpur on May 17. (Photo by Norman Goh)
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[2026-05-18 00:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The son of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has secured a seat on Fatah’s highest leadership body, as initial results emerged from the movement’s first Congress in the occupied West Bank in a decade.
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[2026-05-17 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Footage has been published online purporting to show an assault by an Israeli settler against a Palestinian farmer in the occupied West Bank, in one of the latest alleged attacks targeting Palestinian civilians.
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[2026-05-17 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Footage has been published online purporting to show an assault by an Israeli settler against a Palestinian farmer in the occupied West Bank, in one of the latest alleged attacks targeting Palestinian civilians.
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[2026-05-17 23:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
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[2026-05-17 22:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Noon, the e-commerce platform which competes with Amazon in the UAE, plans to launch operations in Syria, its co-founder Mohamed Alabbar has said.
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[2026-05-17 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing casts computing power as a national infrastructure, likening tokens to mobile data as telecoms firms roll out mass-market packages
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[2026-05-17 22:30 UTC+10:00] [Kimi-K] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing casts computing power as a national infrastructure, likening tokens to mobile data as telecoms firms roll out mass-market packages
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[2026-05-17 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Former finance minister Moshe Kahlon is set to admit that he failed to ensure that serious financial irregularities at UnetCredit were properly reported to the public while he served as chairman of the company, as part of a plea agreement filed with the Tel Aviv District Court’s Economic Department.
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[2026-05-17 21:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Ahead of a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven developed economies in Paris on Monday, a senior European official says the situation in the Middle East has highlighted how exposed the interconnected global economy is to external shocks.
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[2026-05-17 21:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Incoming chairman Jeffrey Lam outlines park’s financing and offerings, says operator will first rely on government’s HK$10 billion injection
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[2026-05-17 21:12 UTC+10:00] [Northern Metropolis] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Incoming chairman Jeffrey Lam outlines park’s financing and offerings, says operator will first rely on government’s HK$10 billion injection
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[2026-05-17 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Accounting and Financial Reporting Council] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: PwC faces fresh legal battle after SFC ordered HK$1 billion payout to Evergrande minority shareholders and AFRC imposed HK$300 million fine
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[2026-05-17 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Hamas is looking to exploit the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, in order to collect financial donations under a humanitarian or religious guise, Israeli public broadcaster KAN News reported on Thursday, citing Palestinian sources familiar with the details.
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[2026-05-17 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that he or his investment advisers made more than 3700 trades in the first quarter, a flurry totalling tens of millions of dollars and involving major companies that have dealings with his administration.
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[2026-05-17 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: One of Australia’s top former medical advisers has called for tobacco tax cuts, labelling the emergence of a multibillion-dollar black market controlled by organised crime a “whole of government policy failure”.
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[2026-05-17 18:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: DHAKA, Bangladesh (Daily Star/ANN) -- By late afternoon, Runa Begum was still moving through Shahbagh carrying trays of reshmi bangles across both arms. The morning had already passed between New Market, Nilkhet and the Dhaka University area, but sales remained slow. Every few minutes, she stopped near groups of students or women passing by, briefly lifting the bangles forward before continuing through the crowd.
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[2026-05-17 17:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Finance chief’s trip announced on Sunday and follows easing of tensions after US President Donald Trump visited mainland China
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[2026-05-17 17:08 UTC+10:00] [scmp] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Finance chief’s trip announced on Sunday and follows easing of tensions after US President Donald Trump visited mainland China
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[2026-05-17 16:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Alpha Lau says city must seize opportunities amid renewed signs of stability in China-US relations following Xi-Trump summit
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[2026-05-17 16:38 UTC+10:00] [United States] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Alpha Lau says city must seize opportunities amid renewed signs of stability in China-US relations following Xi-Trump summit
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[2026-05-17 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: More than half of the country’s gold recycling firms are less than three years old
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[2026-05-17 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Shenzhen] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: More than half of the country’s gold recycling firms are less than three years old
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[2026-05-17 15:15 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean retail investors are pouring back into US equities again as enthusiasm for AI-driven tech rallies overwhelms the government’s campaign to steer money back into the domestic market.
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[2026-05-17 14:31 UTC+10:00] [Economy & Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-05-17 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Emerging economic centres are looking to broaden their aviation networks as local governments seek greater international, regional connectivity
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[2026-05-17 14:00 UTC+10:00] [David Wong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Emerging economic centres are looking to broaden their aviation networks as local governments seek greater international, regional connectivity
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[2026-05-17 13:42 UTC+10:00] [JAPAN] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Opposition parties are set to grill Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during a party leaders' debate on Wednesday over her delay in preparing an extra budget to combat rising oil prices and inflation.
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[2026-05-17 13:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump returned from the spectacle of a Chinese state visit to a less than welcoming U.S. economy — with the military band and garden tour in Beijing giving way to pressure over how to fix America's escalating inflation rate.
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[2026-05-17 13:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Opening 36 years ago today, the landmark skyscraper was Hong Kong’s tallest at the time
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[2026-05-17 13:15 UTC+10:00] [Hongkong Bank] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Opening 36 years ago today, the landmark skyscraper was Hong Kong’s tallest at the time
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[2026-05-17 12:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Ben Bernanke’s Fed pulled off a miracle during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. What might Kevin Warsh be forced to pull out of his hat as the central bank’s new boss?
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