Posts by Liam Redmond
US: Wall St rebounds after last week’s selloff
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Monday (Feb 24), rebounding from a sharp selloff in the previous week, while Apple edged up in choppy trading after the iPhone maker announced a US$500 billion investment plan. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 65.1 points, or 0.15 per cent, at the open to 43,493.12. The S&P…
Read MoreJamie Lee Curtis accuses Colin Farrell of giving her COVID at SAG Awards 2025: ‘Guilty as charged’
There’s a COVID superspreader in Hollywood. At the 2025 SAG Awards on Sunday, Jamie Lee Curtis presented the award for Male Actor in a TV Movie or Limited Series, and before she read Colin Farrell’s name as the winner, she leveled a playful accusation at the Irish actor. “And the actor goes to… the man…
Read MoreHow Ashley St Clair Trapped Elon Musk? Isabella Moody Drops Shocking Claims
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is at the center of controversy after influencer Ashley St Clair filed a lawsuit claiming he is the father of her child. St Clair has taken legal action in Manhattan Supreme Court, seeking full custody of her five-month-old son. The lawsuit aims to officially establish Musk as the father, adding another…
Read MoreSean ‘Diddy’ Combs wants evidence suppressed — accusing feds of lying to get search warrants
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers are pushing to have some evidence obtained during raids on his homes in Los Angeles and Miami suppressed, accusing the feds of lying to obtain the search warrants, new court filings show. The 55-year-old disgraced music mogul’s defense team alleges authorities made “false statements and omitted critical exculpatory evidence” when it…
Read MoreApple plans Texas factory for AI servers, 20,000 research jobs
APPLE on Monday (Feb 24) said it plans to help bring online a quarter-million-square-foot factory in Texas by 2026 to build artificial intelligence servers and will add about 20,000 research and development jobs across the US Apple said that it plans to spend US$500 billion in the US over the next four years, though that…
Read MoreSingapore shares slide on Monday after MAS unveils stock market measures; STI down 0.1%
Across the broader market, gainers beat losers 298 to 286 as 1.4 billion securities worth S$1.7 billion change hands SINGAPORE equities were marginally lower at the end of the first trading session since the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled plans to boost the stock market. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) fell 0.1 per…
Read MoreSingapore shares slip on Monday after MAS unveils stock market measures; STI down 0.1%
Across the broader market, gainers beat losers 298 to 286, after 1.4 billion securities worth S$1.7 billion change hands SINGAPORE stocks closed marginally lower at the end of the first trading session since the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled plans to boost the stock market. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) dipped 0.1 per…
Read MoreAdani plans 1.1 trillion rupees of new investments in India growth push
Billionaire Gautam Adani said his group is planning more than 1.1 trillion rupees (S$17 billion) of new investments in India, signalling the conglomerate’s focus on growing in its home market while fighting corruption charges in the US. This will fund projects ranging from pumped storage to cement and mining to smart-metres and thermal energy, Adani…
Read MoreNYC’s notorious Roosevelt Hotel shelter will be migrant-free in coming months, Mayor Eric Adams says
The notorious Roosevelt Hotel migrant shelter in Manhattan is expected to close down operations in the coming months, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday as the number of asylum seekers in the city’s care continues to drop since President Trump took office. Adams, a Democrat, called the impending closure of the centralized intake center and emergency…
Read MoreDBS CEO Piyush Gupta sees job cuts of 4,000 temp staff as AI replaces roles
DBS Group Holdings plans to cut around 4,000 of its contract and temporary staff workforce over the next three years as artificial intelligence increasingly takes on roles carried out by human beings. South-east Asia’s largest lender has approximately 8,000 to 9,000 of such staff, according to chief executive officer Piyush Gupta replying to a query…
Read MoreChinese firms dump Europe for Hong Kong to raise funds
CHINESE companies that once pursued additional listings in Europe are abandoning those plans after Beijing’s securities regulator tightened some rules, pushing many issuers to sell shares in Hong Kong instead. Take Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL). The car-battery giant considered selling at least US$5 billion of global depositary receipts in Switzerland, people familiar with…
Read MoreDear Abby: My brother is engaged to a argumentative shrew — should I break them up?
DEAR ABBY: My brother just got engaged to the “WOAT” (Worst of All Time). They have been dating for 2 1/2 years, and nobody in the family has anything good to say about her. In the past, he always had stable relationships with girls we really enjoyed. But now he’s getting older, his friends are…
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