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Kristi Noem Is So Late To Her Swearing-In By JD Vance, He Leaves: Report
The new homeland security secretary eventually took her oath elsewhere at a notable conservative's home.
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Indian government to tighten fiscal purse despite slowing economic growth - Reuters poll
The Indian government will stick to borrowing and spending targets it touted six months ago in its Feb. 1 budget despite a sharp economic slowdown, a Reuters poll of economists found, putting the onus on the Reserve Bank of India to support growth. An expected fiscal deficit of 4.5% of gross domestic product represents a slight tightening of the purse compared with the fiscal year about to end, at 4.8%. Growth in Asia's third-largest economy slowed to 5.4% in July-September from over 8.0% on a
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AT&T's bundled 5G, fiber plans boost holiday-quarter subscriptions
The U.S. telecom giant added 482,000 net monthly bill-paying wireless phone subscribers in the holiday quarter, outpacing analysts' estimated gains of 424,550, according to Visible Alpha. As the pool of potential new wireless customers shrinks in the United States, AT&T's strategy of bundling high-speed fiber internet with wireless phone services has helped drive growth for the company.
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Stocks slide on Chinese AI threat
European and Asian stock markets mostly slid Monday and Wall Street was forecast to open sharply lower on talk that a cheaper Chinese generative AI programme can outperform big-name rivals, notably in the United States.- Eyes on DeepSeek - Wall Street already took a hit Friday following the launch of the Chinese DeepSeek artificial intelligence programme last week.
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Exclusive-India to ditch privatisation plans, pour billions in state-run firms, sources say
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pouring billions into ailing state-run firms after slowing ambitious divestment plans that were intended to reduce the role of the state in business, according to government sources and a document reviewed by Reuters. Less than a month into 2025, New Delhi has plans to invest about $1.5 billion in financial rescue packages for two state-owned firms after failing to sell them to private companies. It has also decided to put in "abeyance" privatisation of a
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Chinese property giant Vanke warns of huge loss, CEO resigns
Indebted Chinese property giant Vanke warned Monday of a major loss last year amid a continuing market slump, while also saying its CEO was resigning due to "health reasons".Vanke has not confirmed Zhu's detention but said in a statement on Monday that he "has applied to resign... owing to health reasons".
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Danish PM says Nordics united as Trump ratchets up Greenland bid
Nordic leaders met on the weekend and reiterated they are united on defence issues, Denmark's prime minister has said, as her country reels from US President Donald Trump's attempts to take over Greenland.Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she met regional counterparts on Sunday to discuss defence and security and they all "shared the gravity of the situation", without mentioning the autonomous Danish territory by name.
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