Topic: Financial Markets — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-28 16:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Multiple sclerosis patients in the UAE have opened up about how their lives were impacted since being diagnosed with the condition.
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[2026-05-28 16:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- Culture Minister Chae Hwi-young said Thursday the government will seek to expand South Korea's "K-culture" market to 400 trillion won (US$265 billion) by 2030, up from the previous target of 300 trillion won.
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[2026-05-28 15:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Hello, this is Leonie Kidd writing to you from London. Welcome to today's edition of the Daily Open newsletter.
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[2026-05-28 15:45 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: A US National Park Service analysis found that the contractor given a no-bid contract to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is being paid an inflated and excessive profit margin, according to federal documents obtained by The New York Times.
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[2026-05-28 15:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Naver said Thursday it will invest 1 trillion won ($663 million) over the next five years to strengthen its creator ecosystem, betting that user-generated content will become a key asset in the next phase of artificial intelligence services.
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[2026-05-28 15:19 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: New service to support local SMEs, startups entering global market
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[2026-05-28 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Ferrari's stock plummeted after it unveiled its first fully electric vehicle, which was criticized by the luxury carmaker's former boss and even Italy's transport minister.
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[2026-05-28 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: COPENHAGEN, Denmark – On the day of its IPO in 2012, Brunello Cucinelli issued an uncommon ultimatum to investors: if they wanted short-term profits achieved by harming the environment or damaging people, they should not invest.
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[2026-05-28 14:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- Dividend payouts by listed firms in South Korea rose about 17 percent from a year earlier in 2025 amid a rally in the local stock market, data showed Thursday.
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[2026-05-28 14:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pages from the U.S. Affordable Care Act health insurance website, healthcare.gov, are displayed on a computer screen in New York, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
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[2026-05-28 13:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A person stands in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei index, seen through the glass wall of an office building in Tokyo, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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[2026-05-28 13:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The 2026 World Cup is upon us so it's time to look at the 48 participants – that includes Group B, a section that features 2022 hosts Qatar, and Canada, who share hosting duties this time around.
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[2026-05-28 13:03 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Police have dismantled what they say is the Australian operation of the so-called Coconut Cartel, a gang locked in a months-long feud with the Alameddine crime family over control of Sydney’s illicit drug market, after seizing almost 400 kilograms of methamphetamine and arresting its alleged onshore leader.
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[2026-05-28 12:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A Google software engineer has been charged with fraud by US authorities after allegedly using insider information to win more than $1.2m in bets on the prediction market platform Polymarket.
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[2026-05-28 12:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- Naver Corp. plans to invest 1 trillion won over the next five years to promote quality user-generated content for its artificial intelligence (AI) services, a company executive said Thursday.
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[2026-05-28 11:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: BEIJING — Chinese electric car company Nio is trying to raise the bar for premium vehicles in a fiercely competitive market.
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[2026-05-28 11:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Wealthy older Australians are using the nation’s negative gearing and capital gains tax laws to grab a greater share of the property market, research for the Reserve Bank has found, pushing up house prices at the expense of low- and middle-income earners.
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[2026-05-28 11:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Artists Chanelle Collier, 42, and Joe Wilson, 45, met in 2006, joined their art practice in 2018, and married in 2023. Earlier that year, Chanelle had been diagnosed with a rare and incurable cancer.
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[2026-05-28 09:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Thursday that his priority is to bring down inflation in the U.S. over the labor market, calling the rise in consumer prices "too high."
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[2026-05-28 09:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The penalties handed out to leading brokerages are harsh, but Beijing must show it means business as it cleans up China’s capital market
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[2026-05-28 09:15 UTC+10:00] [stock market] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The penalties handed out to leading brokerages are harsh, but Beijing must show it means business as it cleans up China’s capital market
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[2026-05-28 07:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States stock market has been hovering near record highs and oil prices have plunged amid new hope that a ceasefire deal between the US and Iran is close.
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[2026-05-28 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Stolen Generations
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[2026-05-28 06:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. stocks inched to more records after oil prices fell back to where they were in mid-April.
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[2026-05-28 06:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Salesforce reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results on Wednesday, but the cloud software vendor issued full-year guidance that was slightly below Wall Street expectations.
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[2026-05-28 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Amazon said Wednesday that its cloud division has landed a $6 billion spending commitment from Snowflake, which includes the use of the company's custom silicon and chips for artificial intelligence.
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[2026-05-28 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Books] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Cast Away, Francesca de Tores’ second historical novel, tells the story of Alexander Selkirk, the putative inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s 1719 classic Robinson Crusoe. A stock-standard retread might easily have run aground upon the Scylla and Charybdis of kitsch and tedium. It is to de Tores’ credit not only that she avoids these, but that the result is such agile, witty, sophisticated entertainment.
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[2026-05-28 05:18 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: US stocks are hanging near their records as oil prices fall and ease the pressure on households and businesses worldwide.
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[2026-05-28 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — The typical CEO compensation package rose nearly 6% in 2025 to $17.7 million, as company boards rewarded their top executives for bigger profits and higher stock prices, and gave them incentives to stick around and make even more money for shareholders.
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[2026-05-28 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: More than 30 proposals put forward for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip highlight fundamentally different visions for Gaza’s urban and economic structures, according to a new analysis by the London-based non-profit The Portland Trust.
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[2026-05-28 02:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-28 02:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Travis Kelce reacts during the second half of Game 3 in the Eastern Conference finals NBA basketball playoffs series between the New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Cleveland, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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[2026-05-28 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Anne Dejean, Hugues de The and Chen Zhu share US$1.2 million life sciences and medicine prize for work on acute promyelocytic leukaemia
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[2026-05-28 02:00 UTC+10:00] [acute promyelocytic leukaemia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Anne Dejean, Hugues de The and Chen Zhu share US$1.2 million life sciences and medicine prize for work on acute promyelocytic leukaemia
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[2026-05-28 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Submitted by Anthony Rubin of Muckraker.Org,
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[2026-05-27 23:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Lululemon has settled its proxy fight with founder Chip Wilson, ending one of the year's top proxy battles, according to Reuters. This follows a fiery letter to shareholders from Wilson earlier this year, calling for activism, as the athletic apparel retailer has seen its shares collapse, lost market share in the leggings market, and become entangled in multiple see-through leggings quality-control issues with customers.
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[2026-05-27 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Domestic firms dominate China’s drug approvals amid jump in spending and out-licensing deals as regulator speeds path to market
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[2026-05-27 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Morrison Foerster] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Domestic firms dominate China’s drug approvals amid jump in spending and out-licensing deals as regulator speeds path to market
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[2026-05-27 22:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Elon Musk departs after a welcome ceremony with President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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[2026-05-27 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Airbnb will launch luggage storage through its app in Tokyo this year, with plans to expand to 175 cities worldwide. © Reuters
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[2026-05-27 22:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The breathtaking rally in South Korean stocks hit a couple of key milestones overnight.
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[2026-05-27 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US futures are trading at new all-time highs following Tuesday’s record-setting rally (when the S&P hit a new record high on negative breadth as is now the norm) , bolstered by a growing chorus of Wall Street bulls: Goldman lifts its S&P 500 target, while Barclays strategists say investors still have capacity to chase the rally, while the memory bubble just keeps raging as the market value of Korea's SK Hynix sailed above the trillion-dollar mark just one day after
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[2026-05-27 21:53 UTC+10:00] [Samsung] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Agreement averts strike and shows latest impact of AI boom as two more chipmakers join $1tn club
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[2026-05-27 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The abrupt Tuesday morning firing of BP Chairman Albert Manifold by the board certainly raised eyebrows, given his key role in the company's turnaround effort: unwinding years of underperforming green-energy bets and steering the oil major back toward its oil-and-gas business.
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[2026-05-27 21:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: There is an "elevated" risk of a market correction, European Central Bank vice president Luis De Guindos told CNBC on Wednesday, as stock indices notch fresh record highs despite a combination of geopolitical turmoil, fiscal challenges and outsized valuations.
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[2026-05-27 20:47 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-05-27 20:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Options traders are convinced the "SaaS-pocalypse" is over. Whether that's true will likely depend on the market's reaction to Salesforce earnings after the bell Wednesday.
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[2026-05-27 19:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Treasury yields fell on Wednesday as investor optimism over a potential settlement to the war in Iran was undented by pressure on the fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran.
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[2026-05-27 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Under the new rules, firms providing advice or market analysis on virtual asset trading must meet strict capital requirements
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[2026-05-27 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Julia Leung] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Under the new rules, firms providing advice or market analysis on virtual asset trading must meet strict capital requirements
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