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Jim Walker, Chief Economist, Aletheia Capital, says if the US economy begins to slow and which is very likely, then the direction of travel is going to have to change and that really means that he is going to have to back off some of this aggression towards his partners and within his own country. Hopefully by the middle of this year, a lot more sensible decisions will be made and a lot more visibility about where we are going. The underlying fundamentals remain the same. Asia looks pretty good, India looks great, China is recovering, and the real problems lie in the advanced economies in America. Walker said to clients this week that this is the time to absolutely double down on the long in India, go much longer and although we worry about the valuations in the Indian stock market, my view is that economic growth is going to take off from here and those valuations will be quickly supported by corporate earnings. Walker, who had predicted the 2008 crisis, does not think the present situation is like 2008. It will be a pretty painful slowdown, but we can go to the other end of it without the kind of government and central bank action that took place in 2008, 2009.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In August this year, Google was ruled as stifling competition in the search engines business through exclusivity deals, as well as owning the Android operating system and the Chrome web browser. In April next year, Google and the US Department of Justice will present what they believe are ideal ‘remedies’ to take, while in August, a final ruling will be issued.

Around 700 hospitality employees at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas who are Culinary Union members walked off the job at 5 a.m. Friday.

U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled that Google maintained an illegal monopoly

tech firms like Google, Adobe, Microsoft and Meta Platforms will testify next week at a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on election threats. Google parent Alphabet's global affairs president Kent Walker, Meta's global affairs president Nick Clegg, Microsoft President Brad Smith and a representative from Adobe will testify at the Sept. 18 hearing, a spokesperson from the office of Senator Mark Warner, who chairs the panel, confirmed. U.S. officials have been attempting to crack down on efforts to spread disinformation and misinformation online surrounding the Nov. 5 election in which Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump will face off. Polls show a tight contest.

Google will soon give California millions of dollars to help pay for local journalism jobs in a first-in-the-nation deal, but journalists and other media industry experts are calling it a disappointing agreement that mostly benefits the tech giant. The agreement, which was hashed out behind closed doors and announced this week, will direct tens of millions of public and private dollars to keep local news organisations afloat. Critics say it's a textbook political maneuver by tech giants to avoid a fee under what could have been groundbreaking legislation. California lawmakers agreed to kill a bill requiring tech to support news outlets they profit from in exchange for Google's financial commitment. By shelving the bill, the state effectively gave up on an avenue that could have required Google and social media platforms to make ongoing payments to publishers for linking news content, said Victor Pickard, professor of media policy and political economy at the University of Pennsylvania. California also left behind a much bigger amount of funding that could have been secured under the legislation, he said.

Google’s loss in a historic U.S. antitrust trial is reverberating across Silicon Valley, where the ruling is likely to affect not just the search giant but also its largest collaborators and competitors. Google parent Alphabet’s deals to get its search engine in front of users by paying to be the default on browsers and mobile phones have been declared illegal by a federal judge.

A Frontier Airlines flight that had been set to go from Houston to the Dallas area last week got canceled not because of weather, but because one of its pilots got arrested

Darren Walker, the outgoing president of the Ford Foundation, has had a far-reaching and profound impact on the philanthropic sector

More than 3,000 nurses at six Oregon hospitals have spent a second day on the picket lines as they continued to demand fair wages and better nurse-to-patient ratios

Crews continue the complicated and meticulous operation of removing the steel and concrete from the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore

A radio station manager says the theft of its giant tower has silenced what used to be the voice of a small Alabama town and surrounding county

antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager will meet the chief executives of Apple, Alphabet, Broadcom and Nvidia in the United States next week, her communications advise said on Friday. The meetings come a month after Vestager resumed her job following her failed bid to head the Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank, with antitrust experts expecting her to show a tougher line towards companies in both merger and competition investigations.

Rico Lewis, the 19-year old English defender who plays for English Premier League club, Manchester City made his debut for the England national football team in their last Euro 2024 qualifier match against North Macedonia yesterday. The match ended in a disappointing 1-1 draw which has resulted in many England fans lashing out at the manager Gareth Southgate on social media. However, amidst the negativity, Lewis dazzled on his debut according to the national team’s manager and termed his performance as being “excellent.”

Ramsay Health Care and Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby have agreed to sell their hospital unit to Columbia Asia Healthcare for 5.7 billion ringgit ($1.9 billion), according to a stock exchange filing.

By Dietrich Knauth and Nate Raymond

By Dietrich Knauth

Rustic Ridge Drive and Brookside Drive in Plum Borough has triggered fires in multiple houses. The incident has resulted in the complete destruction of one home, as reported. A video shared by a viewer depicts dense black smoke rising prominently into the sky.

By Rich McKay and Josephine Walker