Below is a roundup of where the seven largest stocks in the S & P 500 by market value — Apple, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla and Facebook owner Meta Platforms — stand heading into 2024.…
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An Post CEO David McRedmond joins Ciarán Hancock to discuss a stellar year for the company with a move to a new HQ, a €30 million government loan repaid and some six million packages delivered this December.…
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Here is one fact that sums up the gap between the promises that Kyiv’s European partners have made to Ukraine and the reality. In March 2023, the EU made the historic decision to deliver a million artillery shells to Ukraine within 12 months.…
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Denmark’s Maersk has scheduled several dozen container vessels to travel via the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the coming days and weeks, it said on Wednesday, in a further sign that global shipping firms are returning to the route.…
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World stocks rallied to their highest levels since late 2022 on Wednesday, with year-end optimism high on hopes that major central banks such as the U.S. Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates early next year.…
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Kristen Hopewell is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Policy at the University of British Columbia.
With the start of the new year, Canada will assume the rotating chair position of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pa…

In 2015, the man who coined Godwin’s law, a famous maxim about argument on the internet, wrote a column for the Washington Post. Its headline: “Sure, call Trump a Nazi. Just make sure you know what you’re talking about.”…
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A FORMER naval officer involved in the hunt for MH370 believes the pilot of the missing jet deliberately crashed the plane in a never-before-searched location.
Peter Waring, 41, became part of the MH370 search team six months after the aircraft vanishe…

Like Bern-based Tornos, the Swiss machinery industry is going through difficult times. © Keystone / Gaetan Bally
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A tourism sector that dreams of being a safe haven, pharma giants on a diet and industrialists in the grip of an economi…

A TV presenter gets ready for the daily reporting from the floor of the German share price index DAX at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, November 15, 2023.
LONDON — European markets were higher on Wednesday to kick off the final trading week o…

October 7th has become the new “9/11″, a moment when the world seems to have stopped momentarily on its axis and a new brutal page of history is turned. A savage attack by Hamas on civilians, resulting in 1,200 deaths and 240 hostage seizures, became t…

Chinese President Xi Jinping utilised a commemorative speech honoring the 130th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth to advocate for a recently introduced framework aimed at countering the Western capitalist model.
According to a Bloomberg report, while a…

In Brussels, if a landlord wishes to sell a property, they can serve notice on the tenant to leave if this is permitted under the rental contract
Rent, and, more specially, the lack of available rental properties, has been a hot topic in Ireland for ma…

Never had I felt such anxiety in the kitchen. My mind reeled as I grated a bar of Dairy Milk chocolate onto a three-egg omelette sizzling in a pan with glistening onions, mushy tomatoes and fiery green chillies.…
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“We tend to see those forecasts pretty mechanically underestimating iron ore and other commodity prices, particularly at times like these, when the commodity prices are above the very long-term average,” Ms Timbrell said.…
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The Chinese government warned Taiwan on Wednesday with further trade restrictions if the governing party “stubbornly” supports independence, escalating the battle of words as Taiwanese elections near next month.
Taiwan’s presidential and legislative el…

The southeast Asian nation of Myanmar is on the brink of disaster after the country descended into violence, with resistance groups battling the military junta who seized control of government.
More than 18 million people, some third of the country’s p…

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Equity benchmark indices, theand the Sensex, maintained their winning run for the fourth day running on Wednesday, helped by optimism over the country's macroeconomic fundamentals and firm global market tr…

Indian border security have said they are battling an unprecedented “drone menace” infiltrating the border with Pakistan, fuelling the drugs crisis in the state of Punjab and raising serious security issues.…
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Beijing | Chinese President Xi Jinping used a speech remembering Mao Zedong to push a framework the current leader rolled out recently to counter the West’s capitalist model.
The “central task” of the nation and its ruling Communist Party is “to b…

If you have been scrolling through restaurant accounts on Instagram, you would be forgiven for thinking that 2023 was the year of caviar and flimsy wisps of gold. One redolently delicious, the other quite tasteless.…
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