Posts by Liam Redmond
GM shares sink as full-year profit forecast misses Wall Street estimates
Published Tue, Oct 20, 2026 · 08:01 PM GENERAL Motors’ third-quarter core profit rose sharply on the back of strong pickup truck sales, but its shares fell on Tuesday (Oct 20) after the automaker’s earnings-per-share forecast for the full year fell short of analyst expectations. The company said quarterly earnings before interest and tax, not…
Read MoreExclusive | Over 300K visas revoked so far in Trump’s second term, State Department announces
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has revoked more than 300,000 visas since the 47th president took office last year, The Post has learned. A State Department official said that the revocations were done as a consequence for criminal activity, threats to public safety or immigration violations such as fraud or misrepresentation. At least 4,000 visas…
Read MoreWee Hur secures option to acquire Sydney site for 471-bed student accommodation project
[SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Wee Hur has secured an unconditional option to acquire a site in Sydney, Australia, for a proposed 471-bed student accommodation development. The 2,744 square metre site at 35 to 51 Nicholson Street in Wollstonecraft is earmarked for a 12-storey, purpose-built student accommodation development. It will comprise studios, en suite rooms and two-bedroom apartments,…
Read MoreExclusive | How Val Chmerkovskiy is handling ‘DWTS’ suspension after Carrie Ann Inaba’s complaint
Val Chmerkovskiy is waltzing his way through his “Dancing with the Stars” suspension. “Val will be watching the show tomorrow night at home,” a source close to production exclusively told Page Six. “The suspension took Val by surprise, but he took it gracefully and he understood. He fully expects to be back next week for…
Read MoreSingapore shares end lower as local banks decline; STI slips 0.2%
Jardine Matheson leads gainers on Singapore’s blue-chip index while Yangzijiang Shipbuilding falls the most Published Tue, Oct 20, 2026 · 06:48 PM [SINGAPORE] Singapore stocks ended lower on Tuesday (Oct 20) as the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) lost 0.2 per cent or 7.98 points to finish at 5,404.02. Jardine Matheson led the gainers on…
Read MoreKansas Dem Adam Hamilton, who made millions on Big Tech stocks, now running away from AI data center boom
WASHINGTON — Kansas Senate Democratic candidate Adam Hamilton has expressed skepticism that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a “Tower of Babel” but holds as much as $4 million worth of stocks in the companies building out AI infrastructure and data centers across his state. The Methodist minister, who is running to unseat Republican Sen. Roger Marshall,…
Read MoreByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent place over US$35 billion worth of Nvidia chip orders
The orders underscores the ongoing appetite among Chinese companies for Nvidia hardware despite US curbs Published Tue, Oct 20, 2026 · 05:42 PM BYTEDANCE, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards with a collective sticker price of over US$35 billion, two people familiar with the…
Read MoreSingtel fined S$1 million over March outages affecting 720,000 subscribers
[SINGAPORE] Singapore’s telecommunications regulator has imposed a S$1 million penalty on Singtel over a series of mobile service disruptions in March that affected around 720,000 consumer and business subscribers. In a statement on Tuesday (Oct 20), the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said that its investigations found the outages on Mar 16, 18 and 19…
Read MoreExclusive | Wall Street swindler who owes $59M in NY back taxes lives it up in Calif. — where he’s praised by Gavin Newsom
A convicted Wall Street swindler who was named New York’s No. 1 tax deadbeat a decade ago has been living it up in California, running a charity praised by Gov. Gavin Newsom and hawking erectile dysfunction pills — all while dodging a tax bill that has soared to $59.1 million, The Post has learned. Daniel…
Read MoreEuropean stocks extend slide as French protests dent risk appetite
Published Tue, Oct 20, 2026 · 03:58 PM EUROPEAN shares extended losses on Tuesday (Oct 20) as investors weighed the impact of political instability in France, which has dampened risk appetite across regional markets. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was down 0.27 per cent at 637.84 points by 0709 GMT, after slipping 0.8 per cent…
Read MoreKansas soccer field dispatch call captures mass-casualty response after driver kills boy, man
New dispatch audio from the day a driver allegedly plowed into children and spectators at a Kansas soccer field reveals the moments first responders rushed to the scene on Saturday. In the call, dispatchers can be heard labeling the horrific incident as an “MCI” or mass-casualty incident. It happened at the Stryker Sports Complex in…
Read MoreTaobao deepens Singapore presence with US$14.9 million marketing push
[HONG KONG] Chinese e-commerce giant Taobao is ramping up its presence in Singapore amid fierce market competition. It has boosted its Singles’ Day marketing spend in the Republic by around 30 per cent from last year, to more than 100 million yuan (US$14.9 million) in 2026. Singles’ Day, also known as Double 11 or 11.11,…
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