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U.S. existing homes sales continue to decline in August, likely to rebound in September

Sep 23, 2016 04:45 am UTC| Commentary

U.S. existing homes sales continued to decline in August and came in below market projections. Home sales dropped 0.9 percent in sequential terms to 5.33 million units, as compared with market expectations of a rise to...

Japan’s manufacturing conditions improve for the first time in 7 months

Sep 23, 2016 04:38 am UTC| Commentary Economy

Manufacturing conditions in Japan improved for the first time in seven months, with the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rising above the 50-point mark that separates expansion from contraction. Japans flash...

Australian bonds mixed as investors digest FOMC statement, U.S. jobless claims lowest since April

Sep 23, 2016 04:35 am UTC| Commentary

The Australian government bonds saw mixed performance Friday day as markets continued to digest the September FOMC statement, coupled with relatively mixed United States economic data. The yield on the benchmark 10-year...

FxWirePro: The Day Ahead- 23rd September, 2016

Sep 23, 2016 04:30 am UTC| Commentary Economy

Not many economic dockets scheduled for release today and all with low to medium risks associated. Data released so far: Japan: Nikkei flash manufacturing PMI came at 50.3 Upcoming: France: Second...

Asian markets mixed, gold and silver marginally lower

Sep 23, 2016 03:46 am UTC| Commentary

Asian indices were trading on a mixed note on the last working day of the week. On the other side, gold and silver were trading marginally lower in the early hours of Asia. Gold was trading around $1,334 and silver was...

Americas Roundup: Dollar falls broadly after Fed cuts longer, oil rises more on U.S. crude draw, pares gains on OPEC doubt-September 24th, 2016

Sep 22, 2016 22:34 pm UTC| Commentary

Market Roundup US jobless claims dip to 2-month low (252k v 262k forecast) as labor market firms, Continuing claims drop 36k. US home prices +0.5% in July, +5.8% y/y FHFA. U.S. Aug existing homes sales -0.9% v...

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Chart of the Day: Men out of work

Sep 22, 2016 16:12 pm UTC| Commentary Economy

This chart shared by zerohedge.comclearly shows how misleading the unemployment rate has been. In one of our article, we argued if the participation rate, which has steadily fallen throughout the recovery, been at the...

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Economy

Trump Opens Tax-Exempt Dyed Diesel Access as Fuel Prices Surge

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday expanding access to tax-exempt dyed diesel as soaring fuel prices and global oil supply disruptions put pressure on American consumers and businesses. Under...

Australia Consumer Confidence Plunges as RBA Rate Hike Hits Households

Australian consumer confidence fell sharply in October as households grew increasingly worried about rising living costs, higher interest rates, personal finances and the jobs outlook, according to data released Tuesday by...

Samsung, SK Hynix Shares Fall Ahead of Q3 Earnings

Shares of South Korean chip giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix declined on Tuesday as investors turned cautious ahead of their third-quarter earnings reports, despite broader strength across the global semiconductor...

Asian Currencies Steady as Dollar Holds Near 18-Month High

Asian currencies traded mostly flat on Tuesday as the U.S. dollar remained close to an 18-month high, supported by elevated Treasury yields and persistent inflation concerns. The euro stayed under pressure near a 17-month...

Asian Stocks Rise as Nasdaq Record Offsets Bond Yield Pressure

Asian stocks traded mostly higher on Tuesday, supported by a record close on the Nasdaq, although surging U.S. Treasury yields and elevated oil prices kept investors cautious. Wall Street provided a positive lead after the...

Politics

Becton Dickinson to Invest $3 Billion in U.S. Medical Manufacturing

Becton Dickinson and Co. (NYSE: BDX) has agreed to invest $3 billion to expand medical-product manufacturing in the United States, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, as his administration seeks to strengthen...

OpenAI, Anthropic Back Mandatory AI Breach Reporting in Australia

OpenAI and Anthropic said they would support Australian laws requiring artificial intelligence companies to report data breaches caused by AI agents, as lawmakers consider tougher AI regulation following several security...

US DOT Ends Airline Privacy Review Without Enforcement

The U.S. Transportation Department has concluded a review of privacy practices at the nations 10 largest airlines without imposing fines or taking enforcement action, according to a department memo. The airline privacy...

New York Declares Measles Disaster Emergency as Cases Surge

New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a statewide disaster emergency on Monday in response to a growing measles outbreak, marking the first such declaration by a U.S. state since measles cases began rising sharply in...

Trump Plans Diesel Tax Relief as Fuel Prices Hit Record Highs

US President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at expanding access to tax-exempt diesel as his administration seeks to ease record fuel costs ahead of the November 3 elections, according to two people...

Science

Blue Origin New Glenn Explosion Could Delay Launch Operations Until 2028

Blue Origin is facing a significant setback after a dramatic explosion involving its New Glenn rocket severely damaged a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. According to NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, repairs to the...

Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Explodes During Launch Pad Test, Delaying Space Ambitions

Blue Origin suffered a major setback after its uncrewed New Glenn rocket exploded during a launch pad test in Florida on Thursday, raising new challenges for Jeff Bezos space company as it competes with Elon Musks SpaceX...

SpaceX Delays Starship V3 Launch Ahead of Potential Record IPO

SpaceX on Thursday postponed the highly anticipated launch of its 12th Starship rocket test from Texas after technical issues interrupted the final countdown. The company now plans to attempt the Starship V3 launch again...

Trump Administration Releases New UFO Files and Apollo Mission Records

The U.S. Defense Department has released dozens of previously classified UFO-related files following an order from President Donald Trump, sparking renewed debate over unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and government...

China vs. NASA: The New Moon Race and What's at Stake by 2030

The space race is back and this time, its a direct competition between the United States and China for dominance on the lunar surface. NASAs Artemis II mission recently made history when four astronauts flew farther into...

Technology

DeepSeek Seeks $12 Billion Funding Round Backed by Tencent, CATL

Chinese artificial intelligence powerhouse DeepSeek is preparing to raise at least 80 billion yuan ($12 billion) in a major funding round backed by Tencent and battery giant CATL, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. DeepSeek...

Nvidia-Backed Reflection AI Launches Beam Open-Weight Model

Nvidia-backed startup Reflection AI has launched Beam, its first open-weight artificial intelligence model, as the U.S. company looks to challenge lower-cost Chinese AI models in coding and agentic tasks. Reflection AI...

Meta and Microsoft Cut Internal Claude AI Use

Meta Platforms and Microsoft are reducing their internal reliance on Anthropics Claude AI models as both technology giants encourage employees to adopt proprietary artificial intelligence tools, according to a report from...

Huawei, Qualcomm Sign Multi-Year AI and 5G Patent Deal

Chinas Huawei Technologies has reached a broad multi-year patent licensing agreement with Qualcomm covering key technologies including artificial intelligence, 5G, computing and networking, strengthening the companies...

Zcash NU7 Testnet Cuts Block Time to 25 Seconds

Zcash has activated its NU7 network upgrade on the public testnet, reducing the targeted time between transaction blocks from 75 seconds to 25 seconds as developers prepare for a potential November mainnet launch. NU7 went...