Topic: Financial Markets — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-27 08:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A 21-year-old who graduated at the top of his class after spending roughly $125,000, including expenses, on his college degree said “the system is broken” after he applied for 500 jobs and didn’t get one.
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[2026-04-27 08:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: On Friday, a report crossed the wire that Ford and Geely had been in discussions about collaborating more closely, including whether their developing European partnership could expand into the U.S. market, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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[2026-04-27 07:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Wall Street traders ignored anxieties about the conflict with Iran, instead bidding up stocks on the back of strong first-quarter earnings results.
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[2026-04-27 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Tokyo's residential property market, which was previously buoyant, has begun to soften, with inflation squeezing budgets and higher interest rates making mortgages more costly.
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[2026-04-27 05:48 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Flexible, investor-oriented labour regulations will continue to apply within Port City Colombo, officials confirmed during a recent session of the Committee on Public Finance (COPF), chaired by Dr Harsha de Silva.
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[2026-04-27 05:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Officers from the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) at Katunayake International Airport arrested 22 Sri Lankan monks arriving from Thailand with a stock of “Kush” and “Hashish” valued at over 1.1 billion rupees on Saturday.
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[2026-04-27 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Sri Lanka Freedom Party is planning to hold its biggest May Day rally ever as the Sri Lanka Nidahas Sevaka Sangamaya holds the largest share of the country’s workforce, MP Chamara Sampath Dassanayake said
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[2026-04-27 05:39 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: India and Russia can now share army bases, ports and air bases and station up to 3,000 military personnel in each other’s territory, as the Indo-Russian Reciprocal Exchange of Logistics Agreement (RELOS) – signed between New Delhi and Moscow in February 2025 – has become operational.
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[2026-04-27 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The urgent need to build sustainable and resilient agrifood systems to respond to growing challenges like climate change, market volatility and food security concerns was highlighted by Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation Minister K.D. Lalkantha.
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[2026-04-27 05:27 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A surge for Intel following a blowout profit report led the US stock market to more records on Friday, while oil prices kept yo-yoing in the wait for what’s next with the Iran war.
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[2026-04-27 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The picturesque rural home of Melbourne’s doyenne of luxury fashion, Georgina Weir, has hit the market five months after her death with a price guide of $3.6 million to $3.96 million.
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[2026-04-27 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said he expects it will take several months for the oil market to recover to its previous level, even if the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.
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[2026-04-26 23:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Intel shares earlier jumped the most on record after the chipmaker delivered stronger-than-expected first-quarter results and issued a second-quarter forecast (read here) that beat Wall Street expectations.
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[2026-04-26 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A localized commercial real estate crash has been spreading through downtown Baltimore City's office market like cancer, with more than $1 billion in property value erased since 2020. The rapid decline of the commercial tax base in the downtown area is colliding with deep structural crises, including violent crime, a continued population collapse (now at a 100-year low), fiscal mess, and the increasing risk that the unhinged left-wing politicians in City Hall will hike taxes on working poor households to
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[2026-04-26 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Democrats] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The party has been pressured to avoid ‘woke’ policies. Instead, Democrats must stand firmly for equality and invest in mobilization
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[2026-04-26 19:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Shlomo Group has entered Israel’s garage and vehicle service center market with a planned nationwide network, investing about NIS 50 million to expand independent service infrastructure, the company said in a press release. The company intends to support private customers from the point of vehicle purchase or leasing through ongoing maintenance.
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[2026-04-26 17:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States is taking stock of a shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington, DC, where President Donald Trump was rushed from the scene.
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[2026-04-26 17:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: BYD cars are displayed at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing on April 24. © Reuters
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[2026-04-26 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Stock-market gains and attractive prices will continue to lure wealthy buyers including mainland Chinese investors, agents say
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[2026-04-26 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong property] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Stock-market gains and attractive prices will continue to lure wealthy buyers including mainland Chinese investors, agents say
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[2026-04-26 15:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘Drone warfare is the future,’ say arms dealers in Kuala Lumpur – and the region’s militaries are buying in
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[2026-04-26 15:30 UTC+10:00] [This Week in Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘Drone warfare is the future,’ say arms dealers in Kuala Lumpur – and the region’s militaries are buying in
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[2026-04-26 15:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Financial Secretary Paul Chan says city remains top IPO hub, citing strong demand among ‘high-quality’ companies and robust market momentum
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[2026-04-26 15:27 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Financial Secretary Paul Chan says city remains top IPO hub, citing strong demand among ‘high-quality’ companies and robust market momentum
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[2026-04-26 15:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Comedian Bill Maher called out Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other democratic socialists during Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” pointing to the steep amount he was forced to pay in taxes while saying he’s tired of hearing the rich don’t pay their fair share.
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[2026-04-26 15:08 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: French police are investigating suspicions that a hairdryer may have been used to tamper with official weather readings to make thousands of dollars in Polymarket bets.
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[2026-04-26 12:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: “I never deliberately learnt to read … it was something that just came to me. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to him read aloud the news of the day, Bills to be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow – anything my father happened to be holding when I crawled into his lap every night.
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[2026-04-26 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Homes] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: At first, rescuing unwanted items from the reuse room was a way to save money. But over time, it became a place where I connected with my neighbours
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[2026-04-26 07:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU will have to provide more money to Ukraine next year on top of the newly approved €90 billion ($105 billion), the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing diplomatic sources.
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[2026-04-26 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Property / News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A Wollstonecraft home that was originally built for the late Joseph Clifton Love, a manufacturer who helped establish the Uncle Tobys brand in Sydney through his company Clifford Love & Co, has hit the market for a second time this year.
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[2026-04-26 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: PNG sex workers say they are often torn between earning a living and risking contracting HIV. (ABC News: Johnson Raela/Cordelia Brown/Adobe Stock)
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[2026-04-26 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A new biography of Mary Kay — the big-haired, bleach-blonde and perpetually pink-clad cosmetics titan — reads more like a juicy Judith Krantz novel.
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[2026-04-26 02:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Honda 0 Series Saloon EV was a self-driving concept car designed for the North American market. It was canceled this year. (Photo by Mayumi Tsumita)
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[2026-04-26 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
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[2026-04-26 00:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV — Ukraine and Azerbaijan signed six cooperation agreements on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as he pushes to share Kyiv's drone expertise amid the Middle East war.
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[2026-04-25 22:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Software giants are seeing their worst stock performance in years on fears of AI disruption. Now they have a new problem.
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[2026-04-25 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Welcome to The California Post’s weekly Dodgers recap, where baseball writers Dylan Hernández and Jack Harris review the week that was, hand out very official awards and take stock of the state of the season.
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[2026-04-25 21:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: In early 2025, Nvidia lost nearly $600 billion in market value after an upstart generative AI large language model from China tried to prove there is no need to splash billions of dollars to develop such a platform.
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[2026-04-25 19:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Nearly 300 flats released as strong demand meets falling supply, with completions set to decline over the next two years
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[2026-04-25 19:40 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong property] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Nearly 300 flats released as strong demand meets falling supply, with completions set to decline over the next two years
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[2026-04-25 18:17 UTC+10:00] [Sport / NRL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The hopes and prayers of the Dragons hierarchy that Monday’s messy split with coach Shane Flanagan – and the hastily convened press conference that followed – wouldn’t be the most shambolic episode of their week were not answered on Saturday afternoon.
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[2026-04-25 15:28 UTC+10:00] [Airports] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are quickly becoming an economic and political force, accruing multi-billion dollar valuations and drawing support from key officials in the Trump administration.
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[2026-04-25 14:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s defence ministry said a significant portion of the country’s missile capabilities remains unused, while highlighting domestic production of more than 1,000 types of weapons, according to Press TV.
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[2026-04-25 12:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Tashkent's market traders tend to transact in cash. (Photo by Alina Vozniuk)
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[2026-04-25 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The AI funding frenzy continues, with Google planning to invest $10 billion in Anthropic at a $350 billion valuation, deepening its relationship with the San Francisco-based AI company best known for building Claude.
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[2026-04-25 09:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday urged real estate professionals to share neighborhood school and crime data with prospective homebuyers after websites like Redfin and Trulia stopped during the Biden administration over racial discrimination concerns.
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[2026-04-25 09:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ice baths and cold plunges are springing up across Hong Kong, but will traditional Chinese medicine ideas freeze them out of the market?
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[2026-04-25 09:15 UTC+10:00] [ice baths] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ice baths and cold plunges are springing up across Hong Kong, but will traditional Chinese medicine ideas freeze them out of the market?
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[2026-04-25 08:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: There was more than one red carpet worth watching on Thursday night.
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[2026-04-25 07:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A U.S. special forces soldier was granted bond Friday on charges that he used classified information about the mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to win more than $400,000 on the prediction market Polymarket, a federal magistrate said Friday.
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