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Japan’s annual wage negotiations concluded with average pay gains topping 5% for a third year, underscoring the economy’s resilience and reinforcing the Bank of Japan’s stance to keep raising interest rates.
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(Capitol)Amid signs of greatness, the already hugely popular British singer fails to live up to her potential, lacking vocal agility and lyrical subtletyWe live in a post Die With a Smile world. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ 2024 megahit has nearly 4bn streams on Spotify alone: the people crave traditionalist AM radio ballads. Enter Sienna Spiro, a young soul singer whose ultra-traditionalist sound is backed up by posh pedigree: her father, Glenn Spiro, is a famed Hatton Garden jeweller; her mother,
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French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said he will push for a finance bill for next year that brings a further improvement in public finances, and expects parliament “most likely” will allow a budget to pass.
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Jordan Rochester, Mizuho FICC strategy EMEA head, discusses sharp moves in the yen. "From all the frameworks, dollar-yen should be lower," he tells Bloomberg Television. He adds there has been a change in behaviors in the Japanese space and the yen is not behaving like a G10 currency. "It trades like an EM in terms of its correlation to rates," Rochester says. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Qatar appears to be sending a liquefied natural gas tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, the first visible passage in about a week, as the major exporter eyes a rapid restart to output.
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Great Britain's Chris Froome, who won the Tour de France four times, brings an end to his illustrious career in professional cycling.
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“My Indian Boyfriend: The Golden Mile,” a British romantic drama set against Leicester’s Diwali celebrations, has landed U.K. and Ireland theatrical distribution through RFT Films, ahead of the film’s principal photography this summer. The independent production brings together talent and partners from the U.K., Malaysia, Hong Kong and India. Directed by Vijay Chauhan and produced […]
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European stocks advanced on Friday, closing at a record high and recording a fourth straight week of gains as investors remained optimistic that the Federal Reserve will hold off on rate hikes for now.
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French oil major TotalEnergies SE is offering millions of barrels of Iraqi crude that can be promptly delivered to Asia, according to traders, adding to a market already brimming with supply.
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Weekend’s high temperatures and humidity ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, researchers sayThe scorching heat blanketing much of the US this week would have been “virtually impossible” if not for the climate crisis, researchers have found, warning that the high temperatures could threaten Independence Day celebrations and World Cup matches this weekend.“The climate the country has today is fundamentally different to the one it had when the founding fathers signed the Declaration of I
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With a punkish, antifascist take on the trad jazz sound of Duke Ellington, this noisy outfit are epic in every way. But how on earth do they make a living?Fergus Quill picks me up from Leeds station in his Nissan Micra – 152,000 miles on the clock, double bass expertly slotted between seats – and drives me to meet his band.I’m expecting a handful of people, but for the next half an hour, members of Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band just keep arriving, until the tables outside Headingley’s Hyde Park Book
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Carl Freedman Gallery, MargateWith snogging snails, conjoined lovers and her own pug Telly as Jesus, the ceramicist sculpts a mangled mythology of her own relationshipsIf you’re worried that romance may be dead, just one look at Lindsey Mendick’s new exhibition will reassure you that it’s very much alive. It’s just a bit damaged and mangled. Well, mangled is an understatement. The English ceramicist paints a portrait of romantic love that’s mutated and twisted, gory and gross. This is love as bo