Posts by Liam Redmond
Exclusive | Mamdani to skip Manhattan Columbus parade in latest snub to NYC Italian community
There’s no amore lost between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the local Italian-American community. Mamdani is skipping the Christopher Columbus Day parade up Fifth Avenue on Monday, The Post has learned. The snub isn’t a huge surprise as the mayor has often railed against the explorer, bashing him as a colonist that abused and displaced Native…
Read MoreOil falls as Trump claims Russia-Ukraine agree to ‘energy ceasefire’
The US president says he is working with Russia’s Putin to release the nation’s diesel to the market Published Mon, Oct 12, 2026 · 07:04 AM — Updated Mon, Oct 12, 2026 · 09:08 AM [SINGAPORE] Oil dropped as traders weighed US President Donald Trump’s claim of an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine, even…
Read MoreRansomware negotiator arrested on federal charges as FBI probes hacking of personnel files
A Canadian cybersecurity executive who specializes in negotiating with ransomware hackers has reportedly been arrested on federal charges in Pennsylvania. Edward Dubrovsky, 54, was arrested Thursday in the Philadelphia area, according to federal court documents cited by Reuters. The arrest comes as the FBI investigates ShinyHunters, a hacking group that recently claimed to have stolen…
Read MoreMore family offices are turning to Asia-Pacific private credit: Lighthouse Canton
[SINGAPORE] Family offices and private wealth are accounting for an increasingly larger share of private-credit assets in Asia, said Sanket Sinha, CEO of global asset management at investment institution Lighthouse Canton. “Over the last three years, the share of family office capital… in Asia-Pacific’s (private credit assets under management) has been increasing,” noted Sinha. “Three…
Read MoreCost over climate: Most Asean firms scaling back decarbonisation plans as higher energy prices bite
Singapore has the most companies delaying sustainability strategies; Vietnam least affected by cost hikes [SINGAPORE] Close to eight in 10 businesses in South-east Asia have been hit by higher energy costs since the Iran war began, with a similar proportion experiencing a squeeze on their profitability. This has led to one in two companies in…
Read MoreGold looks to greenback for next direction
Despite a strong US dollar and high yields, the precious metal has remained resilient GOLD remained under pressure as the US dollar strengthened throughout September, but the recent price action has left me cautiously bullish on the precious metal. Recent US data has started to soften. August headline personal consumption expenditures inflation rose 3.4 per…
Read MoreAsean companies keen on AI for business benefits, despite its energy costs
Experts call for more judicious use of the technology not driven by a ‘fear of missing out’ [SINGAPORE] Almost four in five South-east Asian businesses expect the benefits from artificial intelligence to outweigh its energy burden – even as they brace for rising costs and infrastructure pressure. Out of 514 regional business leaders polled by…
Read MoreChina moves to stave off wider EU trade war with hybrid deal
Both agree to slash millions of hybrid car exports, with the bloc said to be planning to curb imports WITH an agreement to curb exports of hybrid vehicles to the EU, China is betting it can sidestep harsher restrictions from the 27-member bloc with a gesture that has little immediate prospect of reshaping the overall…
Read MoreGlobal bond sell-off may mean fewer rate hikes from central banks
Yields surge to multi-year highs after weeks of selling, tightening financial conditions Published Mon, Oct 12, 2026 · 06:05 AM [SINGAPORE] Bond markets are starting to do some of the lifting for central banks around the world by pushing up borrowing costs themselves, potentially reducing the number of benchmark interest rate hikes needed to get…
Read MoreChrista Pike has only the left to blame for her execution ‘trauma’
“Capital punishment presents moral questions that philosophers, theologians, and statesmen have grappled with for millennia,” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in 2015 — so the Constitution’s Framers “handled it the same way they handled many other controversial issues: they left it to the People to decide.” The late legal titan adduced the Fifth Amendment’s…
Read More‘Privileged ingrates’ like Zohran Mamdani need to quit the genocide hypocrisy
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas killers slaughtered 1,200 people, more than two-thirds of them civilians, inside Israel. For the ensuing three weeks, they refused Israel’s demands to turn over the 251 hostages and to surrender the architects of the massacre. No matter — within a day of the attacks, when Hamas gunmen were still fighting…
Read MoreWith so-called leaders like LA’s Ysabel Jurado, who needs enemies?
Guess who piped up to slam a sweeping law enforcement operation to cut illegal drug traffic in Skid Row? Ysabel Jurado, the far-left LA councilwoman in whose district the 50 square blocks of homeless tent squalor sit. As the California Post reported, Jurado all but condemned a joint federal-local law enforcement operation that arrested 28 alleged…
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