Today: September 23, 2024
Today: September 23, 2024

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Business|Finance|Technology

News Corp considers selling Australia pay TV and streaming unit

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said it may sell Australian cable TV and streaming unit Foxtel after receiving an approach, a deal that would end its

Business|Finance|Technology

Moody's downgrades Intel's senior unsecured rating

Moody's downgraded Intel's senior unsecured rating on Thursday to BAA1 from its earlier A3 rating, citing concerns about the chipmaker's profitability.

Business|Economy|Finance

Brazil central bank will do 'whatever is necessary' to control inflation, director says

Brazil's central bank will do "whatever is necessary" to control inflation, monetary policy director Gabriel Galipolo said on Thursday, adding that risks appeared to be to the

Economy|Finance

Fed's Schmid says he's more confident inflation heading to 2% goal

Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Jeff Schmid, one of the U.S. central bank's more hawkish policymakers, said on Thursday that recent "encouraging" data gives him more confidence

Fed's Schmid says he's more confident inflation heading to 2% goal
Africa|News

Burkina Faso security ministry urges citizens to report on each other

Burkina Faso's junta has urged its citizens to report suspicious neighbours and activity in the name of national security as the Sahel nation battles a near decade-long jihadist

Asia|Business|News|World

Canada and Australia, eyeing China, signal more military cooperation

Canada and Australia, expressing alarm at China's claims over the disputed waters of the South China Sea, on Thursday said they would increase their military and defense industry

Canada and Australia, eyeing China, signal more military cooperation
Business|Finance|Travel

Expedia beats second-quarter profit estimates on sustained international travel demand

Online travel agency Expedia beat analysts' expectations on Thursday for second-quarter profit, helped by sustained demand for international travel, sending its shares up 7% after the bell

MidEast|News|Political|World

US, Qatar and Egypt push urgent talks with Israel and Hamas on Aug 15

Leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar on Thursday called on Israel and Hamas to meet for negotiations on Aug. 15 in order to finalize a Gaza ceasefire and hostage

Business|News|Travel

United suspends flights to Tel Aviv for foreseeable future

United Airlines said on Thursday it has suspended its flights to Tel Aviv for the foreseeable future and plans to resume them when it is safe for its customers and crew.

United suspends flights to Tel Aviv for foreseeable future
Economy|Finance|Stock Markets

Fed responds to economic data, not politics or stocks, says Chicago Fed's Goolsbee

Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee on Thursday reiterated that the central bank's job is not to respond to stock market routs or political considerations "The Fed's out

Business|Finance|Technology

News Corp earnings beat as Dow Jones, real estate listing units drive growth

News Corp beat estimates for fourth-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, driven by strength in its Dow Jones unit and strong performance in its real estate listing and

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Take-Two banks on new games to boost bookings in next two fiscal years

Take-Two Interactive Software said on Thursday it expects net bookings to grow in fiscal years 2026 and 2027, as the videogame publisher gears up for the launch of its

Business|Economy|News

Fed policymakers signal rate cuts ahead, but not because of market rout

Federal Reserve policymakers are increasingly confident that inflation is cooling enough to allow interest-rate cuts ahead, and they will take their cues on the size and

Fed policymakers signal rate cuts ahead, but not because of market rout
Business|Technology

Archer says Stellantis to help fund some air-taxi production costs

Archer Aviation on Thursday announced an agreement-in-principle with Stellantis under which the automaker would bear up to $370 million of labor-

MidEast|News|World

Four soldiers injured in Israeli 'aggression' targeting Syria's central region, state media says

Four military personnel were wounded in an Israeli air "aggression" targeting Syria's central region, the Syrian state media reported on Thursday.

Sports

Olympics-Athletics-American Holloway powers to elusive Games gold

American Grant Holloway finally added Olympic 110 metres hurdles gold to his sizeable trophy cabinet on Thursday, exploding out of the blocks as usual before cruising to

Europe|News|Political|World

Ukrainian official dismisses notion of new peace summit as start of Russia talks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said in an interview published on Thursday that a second Kyiv-led peace summit should not be treated as the start of

Business|Finance|Stock Markets

Nasdaq considers stricter delisting rules for penny stocks

Nasdaq is proposing amendments to its rules pertaining to penny stocks to put a faster, more stringent delisting process in place for non-compliant companies, according to a filing posted

Business|Finance

Delta rejects CrowdStrike criticism, sees $500 million hit from cyber outage

Delta Air Lines said on Thursday it is pursuing legal claims against CrowdStrike and Microsoft after a global outage last month

Americas|News|World

US charges Tennessee man in North Korea IT worker fraud scheme

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US charges Tennessee man in North Korea IT worker fraud scheme
Election|News

Trump signals interest in influencing Federal Reserve decisions if he regains White House

Republican candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that U.S. presidents should have a say over decisions made by the Federal Reserve, the most explicit indication so far of his

Business|Economy|Finance

Mortgage rate drop lures skittish buyers back to housing market, report shows

A drop in mortgage rates to over one-year lows has prompted some prospective buyers to resume house-hunting, a report from real estate brokerage Redfin showed on Thursday.

Economy|Finance

Mexico cuts interest rate to 10.75% in divided vote, but sees higher inflation

Mexico's central bank lowered its benchmark interest rate in a divided vote to 10.75%, the monetary authority

Election|News

Trump says he has agreed to three debates in September, awaits Harris response

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that he had agreed to three presidential debates in September and was awaiting a response from Democrat Kamala Harris'

Americas|Crime|News

Bolivia investigates three priests for child abuse cover-up

Bolivia's top prosecutor's office said on Thursday it is launching an investigation against three Jesuit priests accused of covering up child abuse in the city of La Paz, the latest

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