Asia Day Ahead: An outside take on China's economy
This Friday in Asia watch for a World Bank update of its assessment of China's economy and policy path, while elsewhere Malaysia reveals its trade balance for April. Jon Gordon reports.
This Friday in Asia watch for a World Bank update of its assessment of China's economy and policy path, while elsewhere Malaysia reveals its trade balance for April. Jon Gordon reports.
The youngest generation of American workers is prepared to move away from states that pass abortion bans and to turn down job offers in states where bans are already in place, a new survey from CNBC/Generation Lab finds.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested Black children in the Bronx do not know what the word “computer” means. Hochul, a Democrat, made the extemporaneous comment Monday while being interviewed at a large business conference in California to discuss expanding economic opportunities in artificial intelligence for low-income communities.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called a meeting of the Secret Services Council for Wednesday to discuss "alleged Russian and Belarusian influence in the Polish power apparatus in previous years", he wrote on social media platform X on Tuesday. As a hub for Western military supplies to neighbouring Ukraine during the more than two-year-old war with Russia, Poland has been on heightened alert for spying. "We must be aware that services, in this case Belarusian ones, worked with a person who had direct access to the Minister of Justice... who had access to various classified documents to which no intelligence service should have had access," Tusk said before a government meeting earlier on Tuesday.
India's Election Commission directed social media platform X on Tuesday to take down a video post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party after an opposition complaint that it promoted enmity among economically weaker groups. The takedown order for violation of poll rules came days after police registered a case against leaders of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including the president of its Karnataka state unit that had shared the post. The animated video published last week during India's long general election accused opposition Congress leaders of planning to extend welfare benefits to the minority Muslim community at the cost of other disadvantaged tribal and Hindu caste groups.
The Atlas 5 rocket that would have carried the Starliner and two astronauts into space was ready for takeoff Monday before the mission was scrubbed.
The embattled country's central bank launched the new note on Tuesday, which it said will be rolled out gradually and features independence icons Manuel Belgrano and Maria Remedios del Valle, who were featured on previous smaller bills. The bank said that the 10,000 peso note, along with an even larger 20,000 peso bill that would come into circulation near the end of the year, would "facilitate transactions between users", simplify financial system logistics and cut costs. Argentina's triple-digit inflation and steadily depreciating peso currency has over years drained the value of the local tender, leading to a situation where people often carry huge stacks of cash with them to cover costs.
US President Joe Biden will speak out against anti-Semitism at a Holocaust memorial ceremony Tuesday, as tensions remain high over nationwide campus protests against Israel's war in Gaza.The White House said Biden would stress "our moral duty to combat the rising scourge of anti-Semitism" in his keynote address at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual Days of Remembrance ceremony.
Donanemab has faced two separate regulatory delays in the United States, while a similar therapy by Eisai and partner Biogen, called Leqembi, received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval last year. Lilly's donanemab was declined accelerated approval by the FDA in January 2023, and on March 8, the agency said it would hold a meeting of its advisers to discuss the drug, further delaying its approval. Before approving Leqembi, which belongs to the same class of treatment as donanemab, the FDA had also conducted a meeting of an independent panel.
The delay of Boeing's Starliner launch, which was supposed to take two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, marked the latest setback for a company already grappling with quality control and safety issues in its aviation business.
As for the guy currently serving in the White House, they call him Biden, or maybe just Joe. In pro-Trump ads, Trump is still “President Trump," even though he left the White House three years ago. “Words matter,” said Jennifer Stromer-Galley, the Syracuse University professor who led the research.
The entertainment giant added streaming customers as it swung to a loss as a result of a charge from an India media venture.
Rescuer workers said on Tuesday they had made contact with 11 people under the rubble in a race to save dozens still unaccounted for after a building collapsed in the South African city of George killing at least six.Forty-seven people were still unaccounted for, including the 11 with whom contact had been established.
Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the heart of Donald Trump's hush money case, took the witness stand on Tuesday at the blockbuster trial of the former US president.Prosecutors say that Trump -- desperate to kill Daniels' story before it could wreck his chances in the narrow 2016 race -- illegally reimbursed his fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, to cover up the $130,000 hush money payment.
Police on Tuesday broke up pro-Palestinian demonstrations at universities in Amsterdam and Berlin, which were inspired by similar demonstrations on campuses around the world.The protests in Amsterdam and Berlin followed similar actions at universities around the world, notably in the United States, where some schools have cancelled graduation ceremonies. ric-sr/hmn/yad
Black women die from cancer at higher rates than other racial or ethnic groups. A large-scale study from the American Cancer Society will investigate why.
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who is expected to testify Tuesday in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, is a key figure in the controversy over a 2016 “hush money” payment allegedly made to Daniels on Trump’s behalf.
A deadline is looming for millions of businesses who may be entitled to a payout in a $5.5 billion antitrust settlement with Visa and Mastercard. The settlement stems from a 2005 lawsuit that alleged merchants paid excessive fees to accept Visa and Mastercard credit cards, and that Visa and Mastercard and their member banks acted in violation of antitrust laws. Any businesses that accepted Visa and/or Mastercard credit or debit cards in the U.S. between January 1, 2004 and January 25, 2019 may be eligible to receive part of the settlement.
A mayor in southern Brazil asked residents to ration water Tuesday in a state capital where some 80% of the population is without running water, a week after massive flooding that has left at least 90 people dead and more than 130 missing. Efforts were continuing to rescue people stranded by the f loods in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, as more rains were forecast for the region into next week. The capital, Porto Alegre, has been virtually cut off, with the airport and bus station closed and main roads blocked due to the floodwaters.
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft blasted off with NASA astronauts onboard for the first time on Monday, kicking off a high-stakes test flight to the space station.
Stock markets extended a rally Tuesday on optimism that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year.UBS shares rallied on the Swiss stock exchange, rising more than nine percent in afternoon trading.