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03.01 / 18:05

markets UPS Digital Strategy Experts PAM Quadrantids 2025: Everything you need to know to watch the meteor shower in the UK

Quadrantids meteor shower, a highlight for stargazers every January, is making its 2025 appearance, promising up to 120 meteors per hour at its peak. Visible from 1-12 January, the shower’s sharp peak on 3 January provides a narrow but rewarding window for observation. UK residents, in particular, can take advantage of excellent viewing conditions due to a thin crescent moon ensuring minimal interference.

03.01 / 16:07

markets Align Trade War reports China's central bank switches to one main interest rate in major overhaul decision - reports

According to comments sent by the Chinese central bank to the Financial Times, the PBOC said it would prioritise «the role of interest rate adjustments» and leave behind «quantitative objectives» for loan growth in what would count as a significant change in Chinese monetary policy. The PBOC added that it would likely cut interest rates from the current 1.5% level «at an appropriate time» this year, aligning Beijing's monetary policy decisions with those of the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. Trade wars emerge as biggest risk facing investment markets in 2025 Curr...

03.01 / 13:33

markets Healthcare Experts Virus prevention infection Vaccines Human Metapneumovirus: Why it’s taken more than two decades to develop a vaccine

HMPV cases rise in China, concerns have emerged about the virus’ continued threat and the lack of targeted treatments.

03.01 / 13:33

markets Strategy Virus country outbreak reports infection “Nothing to be alarmed”: Health Ministry eases fears as China battles surge in respiratory virus

health ministry today said that there is “nothing to be alarmed” about the present situation as another respiratory illness hits China. sparking concerns of its spread like Covid.

03.01 / 13:05

markets Virus social hospital reports symptoms What is human metapneumovirus? HMPV spreads in China, is it contagious like Covid-19, how soon will it reach the U.S? Here are symptoms, prevention and cure

human metapneumovirus, also termed as HMPV.

03.01 / 09:21

Target BLOCK Action security Trade country China adds to sanctions of US defense contractors over Taiwan arms sales

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China started the year with a broadside against U.S. defense contractors, responding to recently ramped-up Taiwan arms sales by the Biden administration and laying down a fresh warning to President-elect Donald Trump of tools Beijing can use to protect national interests.

03.01 / 09:21

UPS Cooper Boxing CAT War Schrodinger’s Cat and the case for paranoid optimism under Trump 2.0

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The year 2025 is really like any other, only more so: It deserves to be greeted with what one of my former editors calls “paranoid optimism." Optimism is in order because the world, chaotic as it currently looks, might get better—and yes, in part because a new American president, Donald Trump, could tackle problems in such mind-bogglingly unorthodox ways that breakthroughs become conceivable. The paranoia is called for because the world is complicated, with dangerous feedback loops hidden inside today’s “polycrisis." And a leader as proudly unpredictable as Trump might inadvertently blow it all up.

03.01 / 05:51

markets Target security Strategy PAM voice reports China targets 28 US defence firms with sanctions 'in order to safeguard national security'

China, Beijing on Thursday announced new export control measures targeting 28 US companies and placed 10 of them to a list, barring them from conducting business in the country, the Voice of America reported.

03.01 / 02:51

markets Digital Strategy economy Experts PAM China's central bank might cut interest rates from current level of 1.5% in 2025: Report

03.01 / 00:51

markets Strategy Analysis Trade show performer Has the market finally bottomed? Time to pounce?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's stock market experienced dramatic swings in 2024. After reaching record highs, the Nifty 50 plunged nearly 11% from its September peak due to persistent selling by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) in the following two months.

03.01 / 00:13

markets Election wellness Trade President Experts show Rupee expected to weaken more in coming months

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: The rupee is expected to further weaken in the coming months as Trump’s presidency strengthens the dollar at least in the near-term, experts said, adding that the central bank's interventions in the currency market are likely to ease. In 2024, the local currency lost 2.9% but the depreciation was lower than some of the other Asian currencies.

02.01 / 22:31

markets Strategy NVIDIA Trade Experts PAM Nvidia's revenue in 2025 could cross $200 billion and that is the reason why the stock could skyrocket this year; should you buy?

02.01 / 18:07

COST UPS Tesla Election wellness reports Tesla reports 1.1% sales drop for 2024, first annual decline in at least 9 years

Tesla’s global annual sales fell for the first time in at least 9 years, with a 2.3% increase in the final quarter not enough to overcome a sluggish start to 2024

02.01 / 14:25

UPS Target Sony Photos performer Features Sporting Upcoming smartphone launches in January 2025: OnePlus 13, Poco X7 series and more

OnePlus 13ROnePlus is all set to unveil the OnePlus 13R on 7 January 2025, alongside the flagship OnePlus 13. The OnePlus 13R is rumoured to be a rebranded version of the OnePlus Ace 5, which was launched in China in December 2024. The device is expected to target the premium mid-range market with an array of features that make it stand out.The OnePlus 13R will come in two stunning colour options—Astral Trail and Nebula Noir.

02.01 / 11:17

Target Trade War show electronic Courts How an FBI sting stopped a Russian smuggler but not his Hong Kong supply route

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. HONG KONG—It took the promise of access to contraband, an FBI front company and help from Fiji, but they got their man: U.S. investigators, in a tricky sting operation, picked off a supplier of parts Moscow needs for its war in Ukraine.

02.01 / 11:17

COST Analysis Research Verisk pandemic Trade Relationships Businesses preparing for another year of Geopolitical tumult

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Businesses are bracing for another year of geopolitical uncertainty, with large question marks looming over President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy strategy and broader global tumult, despite some executives’ optimism about the year ahead. Geopolitical concerns remain top of mind amid general global uncertainty and, in particular, a continued reordering of the U.S.-China relationship.

02.01 / 06:35

markets security Strategy Tesla Investigations International Did U.S witness the first suicide bombing on its soil as Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas? Here's all you need to know

02.01 / 06:35

markets Digital Manufacturing Strategy Trade PAM show Asia's factories end 2024 on weak footing as Trump 2.0 risks mount

02.01 / 04:43

markets CEO Apple economy Trade President country US companies vouched for China during Trump’s first term. Not anymore.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SINGAPORE—During Donald Trump’s first term, U.S. companies argued that a trade war with China was bad for Americans.

02.01 / 01:47

Trade President peace Mint Quick Edit | Beijing shouldn’t push the world into a Taiwan crisis

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s President Xi Jinping had a message for Taiwan in his New Year’s speech. “We Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same family," he said.

02.01 / 01:47

COST SUN Bill show country Green electricity costs a bundle

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As nations use more and more supposedly cheap solar and wind power, a strange thing happens: Our power bills get more expensive. This exposes the environmentalist lie that renewables have already outmatched fossil fuels and that the “green transition" is irreversible even under a second Trump administration.

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