Posts by Liam Redmond
Oil settles almost 3% down on easing supply concerns ahead of US, Iran talks
Published Fri, Feb 6, 2026 · 06:00 AM [HOUSTON] Oil prices settled down almost 3 per cent on Thursday in choppy trading, after the US and Iran agreed to hold talks in Oman on Friday, easing concerns about Iranian crude supplies. Brent crude futures settled down US$1.91, or 2.75 per cent, at US$67.55 per barrel. US…
Read MoreUS stocks: Wall Street ends sharply down as AI worries weigh
Published Fri, Feb 6, 2026 · 05:47 AM WALL Street ended sharply lower on Thursday, with the Nasdaq dragged to its lowest since November by losses in Microsoft, Amazon and other tech heavyweights after Alphabet said it could double capital spending on AI in the race to dominate the emerging technology. Shares of Alphabet fell…
Read MoreHow to protect your intellectual property as a new founder
You finally have something real: a prototype, a name, maybe your first customers. And then it hits you. What if someone copies this? What if a contractor walks away with the code? What if an investor asks whether you actually own what you’ve built and you don’t have a clean answer? Most founders think about…
Read MoreWall Street opens lower on anxiety over Alphabet’s capex plans
Published Thu, Feb 5, 2026 · 10:45 PM [NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Thursday (Feb 5) as investors fretted over Alphabet’s spending plans and Qualcomm’s downbeat forecast. At 09:30 am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 324.80 points, or 0.66 per cent, to 49,176.50, the S&P 500 lost 63.21 points,…
Read MoreOpenAI unveils AI agent service as part of push to attract businesses
The platform is part of a broader effort by OpenAI to seize the enterprise market from its rivals Published Thu, Feb 5, 2026 · 10:41 PM [SAN FRANCISCO] OpenAI on Thursday (Feb 5) said it is launching a service, called Frontier, for companies to build and manage so-called artificial-intelligence agents, or AI tools that can…
Read MoreECB keeps rates unchanged even as choppy markets threaten its ‘good place’
Published Thu, Feb 5, 2026 · 09:37 PM [FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged as expected on Thursday (Feb 5) and offered no clues about its next move, reinforcing market bets that policy will remain steady for some time as the bloc enjoys steady growth and near-target inflation. The eurozone’s central bank…
Read MoreChina warns of security risks linked to OpenClaw open-source AI agent
The industry ministry cautions that organisations using it should apply robust identity authentication and access controls Published Thu, Feb 5, 2026 · 09:37 PM [BEIJING] China’s industry ministry on Thursday (Feb 5) warned that the OpenClaw open-source artificial intelligence agent could pose significant security risks when improperly configured, which could expose users to cyberattacks and…
Read MoreIt’s time to take the ‘Ella McCay’ challenge on Hulu
Before the release of the recent James L. Brooks film Ella McCay, film fans on social media operating (as they tend to do) somewhere between genuine fandom and irony-poisoned wiseassery, extolled people to take the “Ella McCay challenge,” namely posing next to the poster for the film and imitating star Emma Mackey (yes, Emma Mackey…
Read MoreEV maker Nio set to record first adjusted operating profit for Q4 FY2025
The turnaround is driven by ‘sustained growth’ in sales volume and a favourable product mix [SINGAPORE] Electric vehicle manufacturer Nio expects to record its first-ever quarterly adjusted operating profit for the three months ended Dec 31, 2025. Nio’s Q4 adjusted operating profit is set to range from 700 million yuan (S$128.4 million) to 1.2 billion…
Read MoreNHLers excited to be back at Olympics but it hasn’t been smooth sailing
Even before Marty Walsh took the job as head of the NHL Players’ Association, he started to hear the same refrain. In interviews for the job, he’d ask players about their priorities. Get us back into best-on-best competition and back into the Olympics, he was told. After skipping the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, the NHL…
Read MoreBank of England holds rates after narrow 5-4 vote, signals reduction ahead
It has been moving cautiously as Britain has the highest inflation rate among the world’s big, rich economies Published Thu, Feb 5, 2026 · 08:18 PM [LONDON] The Bank of England (BOE) kept interest rates on hold on Thursday (Feb 5), but only after an unexpectedly narrow 5-4 vote, and it said it expected a…
Read MoreAster to complete Singapore refinery expansion, berth works in second-half of 2026
Published Thu, Feb 5, 2026 · 07:59 PM [SINGAPORE] Singapore’s Aster Chemicals and Energy expects to complete several projects in the second half of this year to raise its refining capacity and import oil on supertankers to lower costs, its chief financial officer said. The company, a joint venture between Indonesia’s Chandra Asri and Glencore,…
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