Topic: Financial Markets — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-09 11:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti spent time with online personality Hasan Piker last week at the treasured Key Food Market liquor store in San Francisco — gushing over the controversial far-left streamer as a “friend” and “good person.”
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[2026-04-09 11:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — Oil prices plunged below $95 per barrel, and stock markets surged worldwide Wednesday after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to destroy Iran.
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[2026-04-09 11:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: With market focused on private credit as the next credit market crisis vortex, many have forgotten that CMBS, the asset class that was smashed in the aftermath of covid as hundreds of office buildings were suddenly left vacant, has been teetering on the edge for years. For some, it proved to be a lucrative bet as the "next big short" after various office-heavy CMBX tranches collapsed in 2020 and 2021.
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[2026-04-09 11:03 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A vast inner-city Brisbane block currently home to former racehorses is on the market, with approved plans for dozens of new houses.
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[2026-04-09 10:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 9 (Yonhap) -- Hong Ra-hee, the widow of late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, has sold a stake in Samsung Electronics Co. worth nearly 3.1 trillion won (US$2.1 billion) to complete the payment of inheritance taxes on assets left by the late tycoon, industry sources said Thursday.
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[2026-04-09 10:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: This report is from this week's "Inside India" newsletter, which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse — Subscribe today
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[2026-04-09 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Augusta National has a way of creating betting value beyond the outright market.
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[2026-04-09 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: In an early clue how the Iran war will impact energy earnings, ExxonMobil warned of a $6.5bn hit to Q1 earnings from the Iran war but said the bulk of this was the result of unfavorable timing for its accounting of hedging contracts, which would be offset as underlying transactions were eventually completed.
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[2026-04-09 07:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Trump administration is considering a plan to punish some members of the NATO alliance that he believes were unhelpful to the US and Israel during the Iran war, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing administration officials.
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[2026-04-09 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 9 (Yonhap) -- Financial holding companies in South Korea saw record net profits last year thanks to the robust performances of banking and insurance operations, data showed Thursday.
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[2026-04-09 06:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Oil prices plunged below $95 per barrel, and stock markets surged worldwide after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat of devastating attacks against Iran.
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[2026-04-09 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Oil prices have been rising since the U.S and Israel attacked Iran. A stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo shows the price for West Texas Intermediate one-month futures on March 24, 2026. © Reuters
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[2026-04-09 06:05 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-04-09 05:54 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australia’s sharemarket is expected to slide on opening despite oil prices plunging and stock markets surging worldwide after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire in the US-Israeli war against Iran.
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[2026-04-09 05:37 UTC+10:00] [Local] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Ritigala Wildlife Officers arrested two individuals along with a stock of illegal deer antlers and sea shells hidden in a house in the Paragoda area of Bulathsinhala.
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[2026-04-09 05:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Ritigala Wildlife Officers arrested two individuals along with a stock of illegal deer antlers and sea shells hidden in a house in the Paragoda area of Bulathsinhala.
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[2026-04-09 05:31 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The power of momentum was the focus when Ceylinco Life, one of Sri Lanka’s life insurance market leader for an unbroken 22 years, celebrated the exceptional achievements of its top-performing sales force at its Annual Awards Ceremony 2026, held at Cinnamon Life Colombo.
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[2026-04-09 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s most Trusted and Innovative media services provider
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[2026-04-09 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: LAUGFS Gas PLC announced yesterday that the company has commenced island-wide distribution, releasing approximately 30,000 LPG cylinders daily following the resumption of filling operations at both the Hambantota and Mabima plants.
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[2026-04-09 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: What do we owe the overseers of Big Tech? Should we be happily mocking the digital aristocracy, the men who sold the world, or finding the means to put them on trial? If you’re leaning towards the former, then this blackly comic dissection of Palo Alto privilege and pettiness will prove plenty satisfying.
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[2026-04-09 05:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A growing number of companies are cutting production of PVC, used to make water pipes and other products. (Shin-Etsu Chemical)
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[2026-04-09 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank has once again cut the asking price on his massive thoroughbred racing farm in northern Baltimore County, Maryland, as the historic farm - once owned by the Vanderbilt family - continues to sit on the market amid a series of deep price cuts.
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[2026-04-09 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Apr. 8. © Reuters
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[2026-04-09 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Federal Reserve officials at their March meeting still expected to lower interest rates this year, even with a high level of uncertainty from the Iran war and tariffs, according to minutes released Wednesday.Most of the participants said the war could result in the need for easier monetary policy if rising gas prices hit the labor market and consumer wallets.Policymakers said they would need to remain "nimble" as they weighed the impact the war had on inflation, which continued to hold
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[2026-04-09 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Kalshi is becoming more popular by the day and the prediction market is offering an incentive to attract new users. With the Kalshi promo code NYPMAX, first-time users looking to make predictions on the NBA playoffs can trade $10 and get $10 on the rapidly expanding prediction platform.
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[2026-04-09 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A trader who made a large bet on a stocks rocketing in the coming weeks is up about $23 million in paper profit today, according to Bloomberg.
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[2026-04-09 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Blue Owl stocks is getting slammed this morning, erasing all early gains, after Moody's Ratings cut its outlook on a $36-billion Blue Owl non-traded fund to "negative" from "stable" on Tuesday, citing redemption requests that were significantly higher than at peers in the first quarter. Moody's also said the change in the outlook on Blue Owl Credit Income Corp (OCIC) is due to the majority of the redemption requests coming from a very limited number of investors, revealing some concentration
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[2026-04-09 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Delta Air Lines on Wednesday forecast second-quarter profit below expectations and said it would pull all planned capacity growth from the June quarter as soaring jet fuel prices driven by the Iran war squeeze margins.
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[2026-04-09 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel was not informed of the United States plan to reach a temporary two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran until the deal was in its late stages of finalization, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-09 02:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Oil and gas prices plunged, stock markets soared and the dollar retreated Wednesday after the United States and Iran agreed a temporary ceasefire that could lead to the Strait of Hormuz reopening.
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[2026-04-09 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Meta is debuting its first major artificial intelligence model since the costly hiring of Scale AI's Alexandr Wang nine months ago, as the Facebook parent aims to carve out a niche in a market that's being dominated by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
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[2026-04-09 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Vought made a god out of Homelander in The Boys Season 4. Now, as the popular Prime Video series returns for its fifth and final season, it’ll be up to Butcher and The Boys to topple him once and for all.
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[2026-04-09 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Three-time Grammy-winning country music star Miranda Lambert’s childhood home has sold — and it didn’t take long at all for the property to find its new owner.
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[2026-04-09 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: April is here, and it feels like everyone (and their mother) is congested.
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[2026-04-09 00:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Immediate, but temporary, relief. That's the initial economic response to news of a two-week ceasefire: stock markets across the globe rallied, while the price of crude oil plunged.
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[2026-04-08 23:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: US stocks surged Wednesday morning as oil plunged near $90 after President Trump said he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran — paving the way to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-04-08 23:36 UTC+10:00] [Banks] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Don’t be popping those champagne corks yet: Europe’s economy will still be hurting from the war in the Middle East for months — and maybe longer.
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[2026-04-08 23:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As Israel contemplates a two-week ceasefire announced by United States President Donald Trump in the war on Iran on Tuesday night, it appears weakened in the eyes of its opponents and critics. Its arch-nemesis, Iran, is still standing; Israel’s defensive stock of missiles is depleted and its prime minister is facing a political backlash.
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[2026-04-08 23:26 UTC+10:00] [Cultivated meat] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: The European Parliament's AGRI committee voted to support the deal struck by co-legislators on targeted amendments to the EU's Common Market Organisation rules for agricultural products.
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[2026-04-08 23:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iran, the United States and Israel reached a tentative, two-week ceasefire Wednesday in the war that tore across the Middle East and disrupted the global energy market, with U.S. President Donald Trump pulling back from his threats to destroy Iranian “civilization.” But questions immediately emerged over what appeared to be dueling proposals to halt the fighting, with Iran insisting it would continue to control and charge ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz as well as enrich uranium.
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[2026-04-08 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: BEIJING, April 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SANY Heavy Industry (600031.SH, 06031.HK) reported its 2025 financial results. Revenue rose 14.73% year over year to $12.49 billion. Net profit attributable to shareholders climbed 41.18% to $1.18 billion. Net cash generated from operating activities came in at $2.80 billion, up 34.84% from a year earlier.
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[2026-04-08 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Billionaire investor urges Chinese and US elites to ‘rise above ourselves’ and safeguard global well-being amid a changing world order
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[2026-04-08 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Ningbo] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Billionaire investor urges Chinese and US elites to ‘rise above ourselves’ and safeguard global well-being amid a changing world order
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[2026-04-08 22:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US futures, global stocks and bonds are sharply higher while oil prices plunge the most in years as a wave of optimism swept through global markets after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in exchange for Tehran reopening the Strait of Hormuz: JPMorgan's Market Intel desk, which moves from Neutral to Tactically Bullish this morning, says to look for a re-risking in the very near-term albeit it with higher energy prices.
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[2026-04-08 22:00 UTC+10:00] [US education] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As teachers eagerly adopt its free lesson plans and the White House boosts its videos, the non-profit’s leaders are intent on one goal: attracting young people to conservatism
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[2026-04-08 21:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Grab's chief product officer, Philipp Kandal, introduces an array of new features to its app, including AI-backed services, in its biggest market, Indonesia, on Apr. 8. (Photo by Natsumi Kawasaki)
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[2026-04-08 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hollywood star Milla Jovovich has stepped into artificial intelligence with an open-source memory tool, MemPalace, released on GitHub, a platform where developers share and collaborate on software projects.
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[2026-04-08 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hollywood star Milla Jovovich has stepped into artificial intelligence with an open-source memory tool, MemPalace, released on GitHub, a platform where developers share and collaborate on software projects.
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[2026-04-08 20:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Previous slideNext slide Travellers pose in front of a giant interactive cat installation in the arrivals hall at Hong Kong International Airport. AFPInfo A Djiboutian flag decorates a market stall in the capital city as residents and traders take advantage of the cooler evening hours, days before presidential elections. AFPInfo A skull sculpture is carried on a march for indigenous rights to the Brazilian National Congress building during the annual Terra Livre encampment in Brasilia.
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[2026-04-08 20:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the carrier will "meaningfully reduce" its capacity growth plans in the near term as fuel costs soar, solidifying a pullback from airlines that have been roiled by a historic run-up in jet fuel due to the Middle East war.
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