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Mortgage rates ticked up to a new high for the year, delivering more bad news for home buyers.

Elon Musk’s electric-vehicle company will hold a launch event for the Cybercab autonomous vehicle on Thursday.

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“She struggled with the thought of leaving everything to people who, in her eyes, had never made much time for her.”

The acquisition will give Nvidia access to “one of the most important parcels of real estate in the AI market” and promote open-source technology.

“My offer was cocktails.”

The company’s AI-powered coding assistant is driving major sales momentum.

“We currently live in a relatively low-cost, lower-tax Northwest state.”

The deficit grew 24.4 per cent to US$88.6 billion (S$112 billion) in July from June.

Poland’s reclassification as a developed economy from an emerging market opens it up for investment by many more investors.

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang says the company will keep Hugging Face a neutral, independent platform.

The issue – concerning a horizontal tail plane – has been sorted out, the company said.

China plans to expand the scale of its sports industry to at least 7 trillion yuan (about US$1 trillion) over the next five years, turning to sporting events, outdoor activities and fitness spending to boost consumption and support local economies. The fresh target was detailed by officials at a […]

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Vietnam gold prices fell Thursday morning, hitting the lowest since Aug. 22, while global rates continued its recovery.

Prices of gasoline went up in Vietnam on Thursday while those of diesel declined.

The U.S. dollar rose against the Vietnamese dong Thursday morning, but declined against the Indian rupee and the Japanese yen.

Bank Negara Malaysia maintained its overnight policy rate at 2.75 per cent.

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The collective wealth of listees remained flat at US$239 billion, unchanged from 2025.

This is around 4% of its workforce in the city state

AirAsia reported a net loss of RM831 million (S$261.59 million) for the second quarter.

Sussi Ye began buying gold bars in small batches at the start of the year, slowly building a hoard now worth about 200,000 yuan (US$29,700). Despite the metal’s price swings since then, she has not sold a single gram. “I prefer investing in physical gold instead of gold-linked financial […]

Rising manpower costs and uncertainty over the business outlook push companies to be more cautious.

The rally was sparked by The Later Journey To The West, China’s first fully AI-generated long-form TV drama.

China’s renminbi inched higher to a fresh 3-½-year high against the US dollar on Sept 3.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.56 per cent while the S&P 500 gained 0.46 per cent, to 7,666.63.

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The layoffs are Uber’s largest since May 2020, when the pandemic forced it to shed 6,700 jobs.

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The purchasing managers’ index rose for the 13th consecutive month in August.

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