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Czech economic growth decelerating this year, inflation likely to meet target rate in H2 2017

Sep 20, 2016 11:47 am UTC| Commentary

Following the exceptionally strong economic growth in 2015, the pace of Czech economic growth is slowly decelerating in 2016, according to KBC Market Research. The demand side is being mainly driven upwards by household...

Eurozone periphery bonds strengthen on rising overseas demand

Sep 20, 2016 11:19 am UTC| Commentary

The Eurozone periphery bonds strengthened Tuesday as Japanese investors poured into Europe and United States debt market following the Bank of Japan monetary policy speculations. The French 10-year bond yields, which...

US Election Series

US Election Series: Hillary Clinton outspends Trump in ads but Trump gets more airtime

Sep 20, 2016 11:16 am UTC| Commentary Politics

It would be no exaggeration to say that when it comes to advertisements, Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trumps campaign is drowning under the tidal waves of ads from Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clintons...

CNY likely to trade around 6.70 against US dollar by end-2016

Sep 20, 2016 11:11 am UTC| Commentary

The Chinese renminbi has dropped modestly against the US dollar; however, it has yet to push above its July multiyear low of 6.70. A comparatively stable trade-weighted exchange rate has alleviated pressure on the Peoples...

UK likely to avoid Brexit-recession following slight economic rebound, says Danske Bank

Sep 20, 2016 11:05 am UTC| Commentary Economy

The United Kingdom is expected to avoid a post-Brexit recession after soft economic indicators suggest that the economy has rebounded in August after the initial deceleration in July. As the economic data have been better...

Norges Bank likely to leave key interest rate unchanged

Sep 20, 2016 10:49 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The Norwegian central bank, Norges Bank, is mostly likely to leave its key rate unchanged at 0.5 percent during its meeting on Thursday, according to Nordea Bank. In its latest MPR, which was released in June, the central...

Global Geopolitics Series

Global Geo-political Series: How did Philippines unveil unraveling world order?

Sep 20, 2016 10:20 am UTC| Commentary

Philippines newly elected leader Rodrigo Duterte stunned the world earlier this month by calling U.S. president Barrack Obama son of a bitch that led to the cancellation of a joint meeting by the White House, at a time...

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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

Flavio Bolsonaro Surges as Family Scores Brazil Election Comeback

Brazils election delivered a dramatic political comeback for the Bolsonaro family, even though former President Jair Bolsonaro was not on the ballot. Bolsonaro, 71, is under house arrest while serving a 27-year sentence...

Trump Gaza Peace Plan Stalls as Israel Retains Control

US President Donald Trumps Gaza peace plan remains stalled a year after its launch, with Israel retaining control over roughly two-thirds of the enclave and continuing near-daily strikes despite an October 2025 ceasefire....

Trump Orders Firing Squad Execution for Fort Hood Gunman

President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of former U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting in Texas. Pentagon spokesperson Sean...

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...

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...