Posts by Liam Redmond
Qatar Airways signs US$200 billion deal for 160 Boeing jets during Trump visit
Published Wed, May 14, 2025 · 11:01 PM [DOHA] State carrier Qatar Airways signed a deal on Wednesday (May 14) to purchase jets from US manufacturer Boeing during President Donald Trump’s visit to the Gulf Arab country. Trump said the deal was worth US$200 billion and included 160 jets. Trump and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim…
Read MoreGoldman Sachs fined for failing to properly report billions of trades
Coding errors at Goldman led to inaccurate reporting of 36.6 billion trades to the CAT Central Repository Published Wed, May 14, 2025 · 10:53 PM [NEW YORK] Goldman Sachs will pay a US$1.45 million civil fine to settle a US regulator’s claims that the Wall Street bank failed to accurately report data for billions of…
Read MoreJustin Bieber owes former manager Scooter Braun millions of dollars for canceled tour: report
Justin Bieber reportedly still owes his former manager, Scooter Braun, millions of dollars despite parting ways with the music mogul nearly two years ago. An independent audit conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), a leading accounting firm, over a period of six months found that the pop superstar owes Braun more than $8,806,000, per documents obtained by…
Read MoreUS: Wall St opens higher as trade optimism holds
Published Wed, May 14, 2025 · 09:44 PM [NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Wednesday (May 14) after the week’s strong start, as soft inflation data and the US-China tariff truce boosted sentiment, while Donald Trump’s Gulf tour stoked expectations of additional trade agreements. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 9.7 points,…
Read MoreDatabricks to buy Neon for US$1 billion to boost AI-agent development
[SAN FRANCISCO] Databricks said on Wednesday (May 14) it would buy database startup Neon in a deal valued at about US$1 billion, aiming to strengthen its analytics platform with technology that can help businesses develop and use artificial intelligence agents more easily. Demand for AI agents, programmes that need little human intervention in executing routine…
Read MoreHuge New Jersey home explosion was a murder-suicide — with one of 2 dead found with bullet to the head
The New Jersey home that exploded with a man and a woman inside was the shocking end of a murder-suicide, according to authorities who found one of the victims had been shot in the head. The bodies of the victims, who have not yet been publicly identified, were recovered from the burnt-out home after the fiery…
Read MoreChina’s CATL set to price shares at HK$263 each in US$4.6 billion Hong Kong listing: sources
[SYDNEY] Chinese battery maker CATL is set to price its shares at HK$263 each and increase the size of the company’s Hong Kong listing, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, raising about US$4.6 billion. It would be the largest listing globally in 2025, according to LSEG data. Prospective investors have been…
Read MoreTariffs slam Temu, Shein — and send shoppers to US department stores
Shoppers have fled Temu and Shein after President Trump slapped the Chinese sites with hefty tariffs – spending their dollars instead at US department stores like Nordstrom Rack and Kohl’s, according to data exclusively shared with The Post. Temu saw its spending growth among US customers plummet in April, slowing from nearly 50% year-over-year growth…
Read MoreParagon Reit to suspend trading on May 15 ahead of delisting
[SINGAPORE] Paragon Reit will suspend trading in its units from 9 am on Thursday (May 15), and bow out of the Singapore Exchange, the manager of the retail real estate investment trust said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. Cuscaden Peak’s Times Properties proposed to take the real estate investment trust private at S$0.98 in…
Read MoreEC World Reit’s Q1 net property income more than halves to S$10.8 million as it looks to sell more assets to repay debt
[SINGAPORE] EC World Real Estate Investment Trust’s (Reit) net property income for the first quarter of 2025 more than halved to S$10.8 million, from S$23.3 million in the same period last year. Revenue was down 49.9 per cent to S$12.7 million from S$25.3 million year on year, the Reit manager said on Wednesday (May 14).…
Read MoreHow we project Aaron Glenn’s first 53-man Jets roster
The Jets are through the NFL draft and have done most of their roster building. There will be tinkering throughout the spring and summer, but we have a general idea of what the 2025 Jets will look like. This feels like the perfect time for a 53-man roster projection. Here we go: Source link
Read MoreComfortDelGro posts a 19% rise in Q1 net profit to S$48.3 million
[SINGAPORE] Transport behemoth ComfortDelGro posted a 19 per cent rise in its net profit of S$48.3 million for the quarter ended March on contributions from last year’s acquisitions and improved margins. It said in an update for the first quarter of FY2025 published on Wednesday (May 14) that revenue rose 16.4 per cent year on…
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