Posts by Kim Browne
Amara surges 27% to all-time high on privatisation offer
The S$0.895 offer represents a 33% premium over the company’s net asset value per share as at end-December 2024 [SINGAPORE] Shares of hotel group Amara soared shortly after the market opened on Tuesday (Apr 29), after news broke on Monday that it received a voluntary conditional general offer at S$0.895 apiece. The counter hit S$0.895…
Read MoreHouse Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump
The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to criminalize the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit photos and videos of others — including A.I.-generated images known as “deepfakes” — and to mandate that platforms quickly remove them. The vote of 409 to 2 cleared the measure for President Trump, who was expected to quickly sign…
Read MoreTrump to tout US investments from Nvidia, J&J, Hyundai, Toyota
[WASHINGTON] CEOs and senior executives from Nvidia, Johnson & Johnson, Hyundai Motor, Toyota Motor, and SoftBank Group are among the more than two-dozen business leaders slated to visit the White House on Wednesday for an event highlighting US investments, officials told Reuters. President Donald Trump plans to promote a broad range of investments in the…
Read MoreStocks to watch: CapitaLand Ascendas Reit, Sats, Frasers Centrepoint Trust, First Sponsor, Stoneweg Reit, UOI, LMIRT
[SINGAPORE] The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Tuesday (Apr 29): CapitaLand Ascendas Reit (Clar): The Reit reported a growth in portfolio rental reversions of 11 per cent in the first quarter of 2025, despite occupancy dipping, in a bourse filing on Monday. All geographies across Clar’s portfolio…
Read MoreBrent crude oil prices drop on demand fears
[HOUSTON] Brent crude oil prices fell more than US$1 a barrel on Monday morning as economic worries from the US-China trade war were pressuring demand. Brent crude futures settled at US$65.86 a barrel, down US$1.01, or 1.51 per cent. US West Texas Intermediate crude finished at US$62.05 a barrel, down 97 cents or 1.545 per cent. Brent…
Read MoreRepublicans Sneak Staggering Asylum Fee into Budget Bill
Trump’s whiplash tariff proposals turned the stock market—and Americans’ retirement savings—into a rollercoaster of losses. Still, Trump’s base is weathering the storm. The falling numbers are not stemming from his supporters, per Luntz, but rather a large chunk of the population who helped him secure the White House in November but would otherwise identify as…
Read MoreU.S. Navy Loses $60 Million Jet as Pressure Increases on Hegseth
The U.S. Navy lost a $60 million fighter jet in the Red Sea Monday in another setback for Secretary Defense Pete Hegseth. The F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, currently stationed in the area part of the U.S.’s military campaign against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.…
Read MoreTurns Out Trump Is Massively Exaggerating His Deportation Numbers
Trump’s whiplash tariff proposals turned the stock market—and Americans’ retirement savings—into a rollercoaster of losses. Still, Trump’s base is weathering the storm. The falling numbers are not stemming from his supporters, per Luntz, but rather a large chunk of the population who helped him secure the White House in November but would otherwise identify as…
Read MoreRight-Wing Canadian Candidate Begs Trump to Stop Posting Weird Things
Trump’s whiplash tariff proposals turned the stock market—and Americans’ retirement savings—into a rollercoaster of losses. Still, Trump’s base is weathering the storm. The falling numbers are not stemming from his supporters, per Luntz, but rather a large chunk of the population who helped him secure the White House in November but would otherwise identify as…
Read MoreAmazon to Launch First Project Kuiper Internet Satellites: What to Know
The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is ready to enter a new arena: satellite internet. Amazon, the company that Mr. Bezos started as an online bookseller three decades ago, is now a merchandising behemoth, the owner of the James Bond franchise, a seller of electronic gadgets like Echo smart…
Read MoreKaroline Leavitt Lets Unhinged Sycophant Into White House Briefing
Trump’s whiplash tariff proposals turned the stock market—and Americans’ retirement savings—into a rollercoaster of losses. Still, Trump’s base is weathering the storm. The falling numbers are not stemming from his supporters, per Luntz, but rather a large chunk of the population who helped him secure the White House in November but would otherwise identify as…
Read MoreEx-Hegseth Aide Reveals Just How Obsessed He Is With Stopping Leaks
Trump’s whiplash tariff proposals turned the stock market—and Americans’ retirement savings—into a rollercoaster of losses. Still, Trump’s base is weathering the storm. The falling numbers are not stemming from his supporters, per Luntz, but rather a large chunk of the population who helped him secure the White House in November but would otherwise identify as…
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