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Markets seem pleased with a strong jobs reading, but significant risks remain. [...]
Rick Wurster, Schwab’s president since 2021, will be tasked with steering the largest publicly traded U.S. brokerage through a transition. [...]
The WSJ Dollar Index was up 0.5% to 97.23 — up for five consecutive trading days. [...]
Here are some of the major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news. [...]
The fashion giant’s Sky Xu will engage in the first face-to-face meetings with global institutions amid a turbulent journey to go public. [...]
The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.2%, while the Dow industrials and S&P 500 added about 0.8% and 0.9%, respectively. The blockbuster September U.S. payrolls eased recession fears. [...]
Mantle Ridge, run by Paul Hilal, plans to push executives at the industrial gas manufacturer on succession planning for Chief Executive Seifi Ghasemi and for improvements to the company’s strategy and capital allocation, according to people familiar with the matter. [...]
Natural gas futures settled down 3.9% as temperatures in the U.S. remain higher than normal for most of the country. [...]
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Chinese netizens and bloggers have responded to two recent fatal stabbings—one at home and one abroad—with shock, online detective work, and comparisons to two other previous stabbings that targeted Japanese residents in Shenzhen and Suzhou. The first recent attack occurred at a Shanghai Walmart on [...]
The European Union is the latest actor to impose punitive tariffs against Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), following a vote by its members on Friday. Western governments—including Canada and the U.S., which previously imposed 100 percent tariffs on Chinese EVs—are concerned about China’s dominance in the [...]
This week, Israel invaded southern Lebanon and continued airstrikes on Beirut, while Iran launched direct missile strikes against Israel. Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 1,100 people over the past two weeks and displaced over 1.2 million residents, prompting the Chinese government to [...]
The People’s Republic of China celebrated its 75th anniversary on Tuesday, October 1. The anniversary is both political spectacle and the advent of a week-long holiday marked by decidedly apolitical leisure travel. On the eve of the anniversary, Xi Jinping delivered a speech in front [...]
A local cadre from the northern province of Heilongjiang was recently expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for reading illegal publications with “serious political issues,” making him the latest among dozens of officials to be punished for reading subversive political tracts. Caixin Global’s Feng Huamei [...]
Researchers identified a lipid that is involved in regulating cardiac ion channels, providing insights into possible mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias in heart failure and a potential pathway for future therapeutic development. [...]
The study concludes that among older adults, voice recorders are effective at capturing the circumstances and context in which they lost their balance and potentially fell, without relying on recall later. [...]
A research team has revealed that a molecule in the brain -- ophthalmic acid -- unexpectedly acts like a neurotransmitter similar to dopamine in regulating motor function, offering a new therapeutic target for Parkinson's and other movement diseases. [...]
The University of Cincinnati's Debanjan Bhattacharya is first author of new research published in Cancers that found the drug AM-101 improves the effectiveness and survival rate of radiation treatment in animal models of lung cancer that has spread to the brain. [...]
Genome instability can cause numerous diseases. Cells have effective DNA repair mechanisms at their disposal. A research team has now gained new insights into the DNA damage response. [...]
A new study shows strong alignment between real-world outcomes and those seen in clinical trials among a broad population of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. In the first study to report real-world outcomes from ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel), a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T therapy [...]
Breakthrough research uses nanoparticles to help the body accept transplanted organs without lifelong immunosuppressive drugs, reducing risks. [...]
Researchers have found that exposing a certain class of particles -- micron-sized beads endowed with a special magnetic sensitivity -- to a rapidly alternating, rotating magnetic field causes them to organize into structures that are direction-dependent or anisotropic. The finding is significant because anisotropy can [...]
A year since scores of people were killed here, the collective is splintered - psychologically and physically. [...]
The World Health Organisation says at least 37 facilities have shut and dozens of medical staff have died. [...]
Israel's military says the crossing point with Syria was being used by Hezbollah to smuggle in weapons. [...]
An apparent attempted assassination tore through a Beirut tower block, far from Hezbollah's base. [...]
Large explosions were heard in some of Yemen's largest cities, including the capital Sanaa. [...]
Addressing a vast crowd in Tehran, Ayatollah Khamenei says the attacks were the "minimum punishment". [...]
Israel says it killed the head of Hamas in Tulkarm in the strike, which local reports said hit a cafe. [...]
A retired UK surgeon deals with bombing and shooting victims at a hospital in Gaza. [...]
The operation occurred hours before Iran sent its foreign minister to Beirut. [...]
The Kremlin is weaponizing an alternative version of the website—and rewriting the facts of Putin’s war against Ukraine. [...]
Test yourself on the week of Sept. 28: Mexico inaugurates its first woman president, the U.K. gives up a colony, and violence escalates in the Middle East. [...]
A new tabletop exercise reveals financial, cybersecurity, and energy risks that China could exploit. [...]
Claudia Sheinbaum took office on Tuesday as the country’s first female president. [...]
What began with Russian trolls on Facebook will require a lot more coordination to root out. [...]
[allAfrica] Monrovia -- Rwandan health authorities are struggling to contain the outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, which has claimed the lives of about a dozen people. Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana said those infected are mostly healthcare workers who are usually the first responders. [...]
[allAfrica] Nairobi, Kenya -- For more than 17 years, Alice Muchugi has led the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) program on tree genetic resources. The organization is concerned with ensuring tree genetic resources are used sustainably and conserved, and even reaching [...]
[Nile Post] Uganda's army chief has given the US Ambassador a three-day ultimatum to "apologise to Mzee personally" or leave the country. [...]
[Agenzia Fides] Lomé -- 19 people were killed in an attack during the night of 1 to 2 October in Fanworgou, a border town between Togo and Burkina Faso. [...]
[RFI] Nearly 10 million Tunisians are gearing up to vote on Sunday in presidential elections dominated by incumbent leader Kais Saied, whose rule has been marked by accusations of authoritarianism. [...]
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has accused Ethiopia of "deliberately releasing water from reservoirs at dams upstream" to cause flooding in Somalia, escalating tensions between the two Horn of Africa nations. [...]
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has condemned the violence witnessed in various parts of the country during the ongoing public participation on the impeachment motion against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. [...]
[RFI] Ghana's health service has announced the country's first case of mpox this year, without disclosing the specific variant of the highly contagious virus - which continues to spread across Africa. [...]
