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- “There is always a tendency to look to help national champions,” said Kammer. “But it leads to a **misallocation** of capital if you favour one company over others.”
- “Indonesia has the potential to be a
“Indonesia has the potential to be a regional and even global champion in the future green economy,” said Porwanto. Other than supplying raw materials such as nickel — Indonesia has the world’s largest reserves of the metal used in batteries — the country could also be a centre for EV production and carbon monetisation, he said.
- What are the implications for investors? Perhaps counter-intuitively
What are the implications for investors? Perhaps counter-intuitively, investors should continue to embrace bonds, which look attractively priced. We continue to favour high-quality sovereign debt, including US Treasuries.
- An army statement said the minister had been briefed on preparations for the destruction of Hamas’s Rafah Brigade, “an achievement which will finalise the **dismantling** of Hamas as a military authority in Gaza”.
- “We cannot live in a society in which billionaires domiciled
“We cannot live in a society in which billionaires domiciled abroad have control of social networks and put themselves in a position to violate the rule of law, failing to comply with court orders and threatening our authorities.
- “Canada has also emphasised that extension should contribute to the timely conclusion of a **bilateral** free trade agreement that serves the interests of both parties,” it said.
- It was “appropriate to reduce the overall
It was “appropriate to reduce the overall number of rate cuts or push them further into the future” in response to the latest inflation figures, he said. In February the headline consumer price index and core CPI, which strips out more volatile food and energy costs, rose 0.4 per cent from the prior month.
- Alibaba has ditched plans to spin off its cloud business and paused the listing of its supermarket unit after investors reacted with weak enthusiasm to the Chinese ecommerce giant’s radical restructuring plan.
- IBM has said it has pulled its global advertising from Elon Musk’s X following a report that the social media platform ran the tech company’s adverts alongside pro-Nazi material, in a fresh blow to the company’s efforts to bring back sales revenues.
- Russian authorities have arrested senior executives at Carlsberg’s seized subsidiary Baltika Breweries under criminal charges of fraud as the battle over the rights to the Danish brewer’s brand licences escalates.
- Elon Musk’s X has made good on its promise to back users that are being punished for statements they make on his social media platform, coming to the defence of a US university student facing disciplinary proceedings over his posts.
- “The goal here is to create a machinery that leverages the firm’s expertise, connects it with outside expertise and combines those things into useful, **actionable** and commercial insights for our clients.”
- Financial markets largely **brushed off** the pause, with stock markets stuck in negative territory and government bond yields stable.
- But the group is also competing with rivals Google
But the group is also competing with rivals Google and Microsoft to capitalise on the excitement around generative AI, including via its cloud business but also with consumer products such as the next iteration of the Alexa voice assistant.
- “The goal here is to create a machinery that leverages the firm’s expertise,
“The goal here is to create a machinery that leverages the firm’s expertise, connects it with outside expertise and combines those things into useful, actionable and commercial insights for our clients.”
- Avenge suggests that the ends of justice are being served or another is being vindicated or a merited punishment is being administered.
Revenge implies a desire to retaliate or get even and therefore connotes states of malice, spite, or unwillingness to forgive.
- Yes, I think museums are extremely important because they **provide a tangible link to the past** by preserving and displaying artifacts that tell the story of human history and culture. They also offer valuable educational experiences, helping us appreciate the accomplishments and struggles of our ancestors.
- The graduation ceremony was a memorable event for all the students.
- **Heavy snow** has covered the ground
- JPMorgan Chase paid longtime chief executive Jamie Dimon $ 36mn for 2023, up about 4 per cent from the previous year and his largest **remuneration** at the US bank.
- “We are shifting more of our focus toward user growth and deepening engagement in our most highly **monetisable** geographies, including North America and Europe,” the letter to investors said.
- That prompted concerns over a lack of certainty and **transparency**. “We’ve never seen a situation that affects electoral integrity like this,” said Óscar Picardo, director of the sciences institute at Francisco Gavidia University, adding that there were errors in the data published so far.
- “They pointed to increased usage of credit card revolving balances and buy now, pay later services, as well as increased **delinquency** rates for some types of consumer loans,” the minutes said.
- A **preliminary** report by a federal safety regulator found the plane was missing four bolts meant to secure the door panel when it left Boeing’s factory in Renton, Washington.
- In 1916, a trainee doctor befriended a wounded young soldier in a hospital in Nantes. André Breton was working in the **neurological** ward and reading Freud.
- Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into the Gaza Strip on Monday, rescuing a hostage held by Hamas, as the war threatened to escalate on multiple fronts.
- Police in France detained Russian billionaire Alexei Kuzmichev and carried out a dramatic raid involving 60 officers on two of the oligarch’s properties on Monday as they investigate allegations of tax avoidance, money laundering and violating sanctions.
- Hai Ya's novelette is inspired by a painting masterpiece, Qianli Jiangshan Tu, or A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains, by Wang Ximeng from the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Hai Ya has woven the story of Wang's life into a thriller that combines the elements of traditional Chinese culture and history with sci-fi and detective genres.
- The winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards, the world's top prizes for science fiction literature, were announced on Saturday night, with Chinese author Hai Ya taking home the Best Novelette award for "The Space-Time Painter." He became the third Chinese writer to win a Hugo award after Liu Cixin in 2015 and Hao Jingfang in 2016.
- Last week UAW members began **picketing** Ford’s most profitable factory, a truck plant in Kentucky.
- But the Ohio congressman faces an uphill battle as he tries to win over dozens of holdouts in his own party, including moderate Republicans who are reluctant to endorse the **firebrand** conservative and vocal ally of Donald Trump.
- I heard Jack only pays null,000 per month for his rent in the West Village.
- World trade volumes fell at their fastest annual pace for almost three years in July, according to closely watched figures that signal rising interest rates are beginning to impact global demand for goods.
- Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence painting tool, was publicly launched in July 2022. This tool operates by using text prompts provided by users to guide its creative process. It employs specific algorithms that draw from the existing works of artists to generate images tailored to the user's preferences.
- “The reason why I love the word 'mid-journey' is, I feel like it's easy to sometimes forget the past. And it's kind of easy to feel like that, to feel kind of lost and uncertain about the future. But more than anything, I feel like we're actually ‘mid-journey’ and that we come from this rich and beautiful past and ahead of us is this this wild and unimaginable like unvaluable future.”
- Arm’s $5bn initial public offering this week was the most expensive in fees for five years, earning a $84mn windfall for the professional services firms that advised it, including Deloitte.
- Representative Grace Meng said, “It was an honor to join Governor Hochul as she signed this historic bill and I applaud her for making it the law of the land in our state. When I was in the State Assembly in 2009, I led the bill to establish a New York City school holiday for Lunar New Year, and I remember how people laughed at it. There were so many naysayers who told me that it would never happen. Now, look at how far we have come. I am proud of the work I have done to help get us to this point and I thank all who played a role as well. And in Congress, I am continuing the fight by pushing legislation I authored that would make Lunar New Year a federal holiday.”
- By designating Lunar New Year as an official school holiday, we are taking an important step in recognizing the importance of New York's AAPI community and the rich diversity that makes New York so great," Hochul said in a statement, referring to the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
"It is not just a day off from school - it is an opportunity for our children to learn about and celebrate their own or different cultures and traditions," she added.
- The value of the group’s 10 listed companies dropped by $4.2bn, or 3.3 per cent, on Thursday after the FT and The Guardian exposed opaque offshore structures that shielded some of the group’s largest shareholders, and their connections to the Adani family, from public sight.
- Shares in Indian industrial conglomerate Adani slid and opposition politicians demanded action after the Financial Times and two other media outlets reported new revelations about family-linked shareholders in the company’s stock.
- The Biden administration has dropped efforts to pressure Japan to include anti-whaling language in its signature Indo-Pacific trade pact after fierce opposition from Tokyo and concern from some US officials.
- Jones, Sakana’s chief technology officer, was one of eight Google researchers who collaborated on building a software known as the transformer, which underpinned the rise of generative AI, including chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard, and image generators such as Stability AI, Midjourney and Dall-E.
- Welshman Llion Jones, who left the US tech giant this month, has since set up Sakana AI alongside David Ha, the former head of Google’s AI research arm in Japan. Ha, who is the chief executive, most recently led the research at image AI company Stability AI.
- Seoul's foreign ministry on Tuesday denied a media report that Tokyo has insisted on including support for its Fukushima water release plan in a joint statement following a trilateral summit between South Korea, the United States and Japan later this month.
- The government is making arrangements to hold a meeting of relevant Cabinet ministers to make a decision after Prime Minister Kishida Fumio's visit to the United States. Officials are expected to consider starting the release of the treated water sometime between late August and the first half of September.
- Drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are facing a possible wave of personal injury lawsuits over claims they failed to warn patients their blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs can cause stomach paralysis and severe vomiting.
- A senior European Central Bank policymaker has said it can achieve its objective of bringing down inflation by committing to keep interest rates stable for longer, rather than raising them and risk crashing the economy.
- India has abruptly restricted the import of personal computers including laptops and tablets as the country works to boost local electronics manufacturing.
- Lifelike paintings on walls of residential buildings in Qiacun village, Zhangduo township, Dagze district, Lhasa, capital city of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region are capturing the attention of many people.
The paintings, which well blend into the local environment, make the village a peaceful and harmonious place. Qiacun village is the first village in the autonomous region that is adorned with 3D paintings, and the paintings were created under a project aimed at building a beautiful and livable village.
- The 4th annual TreeHugging World Championships of 2023 (#TreeHugging2023) will be held on Saturday the 19th of August in HaliPuu forest in Levi, Lapland, Finland.