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NYC Deal Digest: $30M FiDi Conversion, $9.5M Chelsea Condo Lead 214 Transactions
Kings Capital plans 108 market-rate rentals at 69 Gold Street, while a Chelsea condo at One Highline closed at $9.5 mill...
Tintin and Asterix: Two Comic Geniuses, Two Rival Views of the World
On the centenary of Asterix co-creator René Goscinny, a cultural reassessment of why Tintin expands the world while Aste...
Dow Rebounds Friday, but S&P and Nasdaq End Week Lower as Gold, Copper and Crypto Rally
US stocks closed mixed: the Dow gained 0.98% while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted weekly losses. Gold miners, copper prod...
How Patients Can Use Price Transparency Laws to Lower Medical Bills
Federal transparency rules give patients leverage to compare prices, request upfront estimates and challenge inflated ho...
Moody's Sees Qatari Bank Profits Slipping in 2026 Before 2027-28 Rebound
Higher risk costs tied to the Middle East conflict are set to push Qatari banks' returns to 1.0%-1.1% of tangible assets...
Where Childcare and Housing Costs Consume the Most Family Income
US families spend about 52% of income on housing and childcare combined; in Los Angeles and New York the share tops 90%,...
Evergrande Founder Gets Life Sentence as Court Accepts Mainland Liquidation
A Guangzhou court has accepted liquidation of Evergrande's mainland property unit as founder Hui Ka Yan begins a life se...
Mark Cruz Confirmed as 12th Director of Indian Health Service
The Senate confirms Klamath Tribes citizen Mark Cruz for a four-year term leading the Indian Health Service, ending a le...
India's INS Sudarshini Brings Naval Diplomacy to Lisbon on 22,000-Mile Voyage
The Indian Navy sail training ship's Portuguese stop mixes maritime heritage with modern security outreach, from a rende...
Brazil's Finance Minister Rejects Retail Crisis Talk, Vows Fiscal Tightening to Lower Rates
Brazil's finance minister says high rates are squeezing credit-dependent retailers such as Casas Bahia, but rejects a ge...
Wall Street Rises Friday but Posts Weekly Loss as Yields and Iran Uncertainties Linger
U.S. stocks bounced Friday on strong services data, but all three major indexes still fell for the week as bond yields a...
US-Iran Standoff Pushes Brent Past $93, Gold Above $4,500 and Squeezes Rate-Sensitive Stocks
The week's geopolitical escalation drove energy and gold sharply higher, but a surprise US Treasury long-end buyback ext...
Montenegro Adds €500,000 in Hotel Energy-Efficiency Grants, Capping Awards at €50,000
A second Eko-fond call will co-finance solar, heat-pump, LED and building-management upgrades for hotels, with new eligi...
Why M&A Culture Is Set by the CEO's Earliest Trade-Offs
Mergers force rapid decisions on brands, portfolios and people. Leaders often treat culture as a later fix, but those ea...
Japan's Core Inflation Accelerates to 1.8% in July, Raising BoJ Rate Bets
Japanese core CPI rose 1.8% year-on-year in July, a second straight acceleration, while government energy measures cloud...
Anthropic's Public Debut Arrives as AI Backlash Becomes a Formal Risk
The Claude maker is heading for a record listing while investors, voters and politicians push back on AI data centres. I...
Romanian F-16s Down Suspected Russian Drone Near EU Gas Project Neptun Deep
The Black Sea intercept near the Neptun Deep site highlights how the Ukraine war's security spillover now reaches a proj...
Windows 11 KB5121003 Update Triggers Game Crashes and System Errors
Microsoft's mandatory August security patch is causing game crashes, login failures and display issues on some PCs, push...
Labor Day Shoppers Plan $341 Average Spend, With Groceries First on the List
A RetailMeNot poll shows 73% plan to shop Labor Day sales but 42% put groceries first; a separate Vevor survey finds str...
India Now Has More Renewable Capacity Than Fossil Fuels, but the Grid Can’t Use It All
Solar drove an 81 GW jump in India's clean power capacity to 331 GW, yet clean sources still supplied only about a fifth...
From Compliance Gatekeeper to C-Suite Strategist: The CSO's Rapid Reinvention
New Accenture and UN Global Compact data show sustainability is becoming a CFO-level priority, pushing CSOs into capital...
Bitcoin Tops $75,000 as Trump's Crypto Push and Treasury Move Fuel Rally
Bitcoin surged past $75,000 while ether climbed more than 25% on the week, driven by Washington's crypto push and a Trea...
Katie Holmes on Directing Happy Hours, Choosing Indie Film and a Second Act Behind the Camera
At Tribeca, Katie Holmes presents the romance she wrote and directed, reuniting with Joshua Jackson and explaining her d...
Tenure-Track Hiring Rose 7% While Campus Staff Jobs Shrank
New CUPA-HR data from 900+ colleges show tenure-track faculty up 7% — the biggest rise since 2016 — while full-time staf...
Refining Crisis from Iran War Keeps Diesel and Gasoline Prices Under Pressure
Crude has retreated from wartime peaks, but fuel cracks, inventories and refining outages point to a prolonged diesel-ga...
USDA Corn Outlook: Heat Cuts Yields, Surprise Acres Cloud Rally
A lower U.S. corn yield and stronger exports point to tighter supplies, but 1.39 million unexplained additional acres le...
Elon Musk Teases a Tesla 'Way Cooler Than a Minivan'—With No Specs, Timeline or Official Design
Elon Musk's reply to a fan's minivan plea has set off fresh speculation about a Tesla people mover, but no details or da...
Ryder CEO Expects Used Truck and Tractor Prices to Jump at Least 10% in 2027
Ryder System's John Diez says recovering spot freight and upcoming EPA emissions rules will push used truck and tractor ...
Brazil Industrial Policy Chief: Subsidized Credit Lifts Investment, Not Inflation
Uallace Moreira says government credit lines target machinery, fleets and innovation to lift potential GDP; he concedes ...
Xi Congratulates Hichilema on Re-election, Vows to Deepen Zambia Ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping has congratulated Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema on his re-election and pledged to implement o...