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ASX to slip, Wall Street modestly lower
On Wall Street, shares were mixed. Energy paced six of the 11 S & P 500 industry sectors lower; utilities paced the advancers.
Range bound markets may be here for several months, AGF chief investment officer Kevin McCreadie said.…
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Debt ceiling vote live updates: House will take up the Biden-McCarthy plan tonight
Biden sounds optimistic tone on debt ceiling deal, ‘God willing’ Biden sounded an optimistic tone that the deal he struck with McCarthy to lift the debt ceiling would be “one step closer” by the end of the week, despite growing opposition f…
Henry Kissinger’s real triumph is as a businessman, not as a diplomat
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The centenary of Henry Kissinger, hailed as a genius or decried as a war criminal with equal fervour, unfolded on 27 May in a who’s who of hagiographic tweets, interviews and op-eds from across the esta…
Kerala how to get a taste of South India in one week
F ar from the deserts, camels and forts of the arid north, Southern India is home to winding backwaters, golden sands and sleepy villages. With one week to play in a country that’s more like a continent, it’s best to pick a state to focus on to get a p…
Morning Update: More than 150 Halifax-area homes lost to wildfire
Open this photo in gallery: A sign directs evacuees at a centre where food and shelter are being provided for those forced from their homes due to the wildfires burning in suburban Halifax on May 30, 2023.Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press
Good morni…
Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis’s fiasco shows they didn’t realize Twitter needs TV
Look, Elon Musk just hosted the launch of Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign on Twitter Spaces, and I could say some things about hypocrisy — Musk insisting that “for Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral,” DeSantis promising…
The End of America’s ‘Neoliberal’ Consensus The New York Times
In April, in a speech at the Brookings Institution, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, somewhat formally declared the death of that old “Washington Consensus.” For a generation, American leaders of both parties had spoken of the country’s gl…
Nova Scotia MP questions Chinese ‘control’ over lobster industry
A Nova Scotia member of Parliament is raising concerns about growing Chinese “influence and control” on the province’s lobster industry supply chain, especially at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.
The Halifax International Air…
SUNRATE partners MODIFI to support the cross-border B2B payments of SMEs
SINGAPORE, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — SUNRATE, the intelligent global payment and treasury management platform for businesses worldwide and MODIFI, a global commerce platform for business payments and trade management have announced a strategic partne…
The End of America’s ‘Neoliberal’ Consensus The New York Times
In April, in a speech at the Brookings Institution, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, somewhat formally declared the death of that old “Washington Consensus.” For a generation, American leaders of both parties had spoken of the country’s g…