2026年2月19日，摩洛哥工业和贸易部发布第DDC/03/2026号公告称，应摩洛哥生产商MAROC AKHCHAB申请，对原产于中国和印度尼西亚的木块芯胶合板（法语：panneaux de bois a ame epaisse）启动反倾销调查。本案倾销调查期为2025年1月1日至2025年12月31日，损害调查期为2022年1月1日至2025年12月31日。（中国贸易救济信息网）
2026年2月19日，摩洛哥工业和贸易部发布第DDC/03/2026号公告称，应摩洛哥生产商MAROC AKHCHAB申请，对原产于中国和印度尼西亚的木块芯胶合板（法语：panneaux de bois a ame epaisse）启动反倾销调查。本案倾销调查期为2025年1月1日至2025年12月31日，损害调查期为2022年1月1日至2025年12月31日。（中国贸易救济信息网）
Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast to between 2.5 per cent and 3.5 per cent this year, as Financial Secretary Paul Chan delivered a budget speech focused on diversifying growth and boosting innovation. The city also will end deficits ahead of schedule, aided by economic growth and stronger stock trading, with an expected consolidated surplus of HK$2.9 billion for the financial year endi...
Hong Kong raised its economic growth forecast to between 2.5 per cent and 3.5 per cent this year, as Financial Secretary Paul Chan delivered a budget speech focused on diversifying growth and boosting innovation. The city also will end deficits ahead of schedule, aided by economic growth and stronger stock trading, with an expected consolidated surplus of HK$2.9 billion for the financial year ending next month, Chan said on Wednesday. The government initially predicted expansion of 2 per cent to...
Whether it’s beans or machines, grinders or milk, post your questions for the Filter’s coffee expert Sasha Muller here Want to know how to make a barista-style brew at home, where to buy the best coffee beans - or which espresso machine is best? The Filter’s coffee expert, Sasha Muller, will be answering your questions live at 1pm GMT. Sasha has tested coffee machines , cafetieres , espresso machi...
Whether it’s beans or machines, grinders or milk, post your questions for the Filter’s coffee expert Sasha Muller here Want to know how to make a barista-style brew at home, where to buy the best coffee beans - or which espresso machine is best? The Filter’s coffee expert, Sasha Muller, will be answering your questions live at 1pm GMT. Sasha has tested coffee machines , cafetieres , espresso machines and more for the Filter, so post your questions in the comments below on anything from his favourite maker and how to choose a machine to his coffee no-nos and pet hates. Create an account here to ask your question Continue reading...
Haleon Plc slid the most in nearly one year after sales grew less than expected in 2025, as a weak cold and flu season meant fewer customers purchased its over-the-counter medicines. The maker of Panadol and Advil painkillers said Wednesday that sales increased by 3% in 2025. That fell shy of analysts’ estimates for a 3.3% rise, and the company’s own reduced outlook for 3.5% growth. Haleon expects...
Haleon Plc slid the most in nearly one year after sales grew less than expected in 2025, as a weak cold and flu season meant fewer customers purchased its over-the-counter medicines. The maker of Panadol and Advil painkillers said Wednesday that sales increased by 3% in 2025. That fell shy of analysts’ estimates for a 3.3% rise, and the company’s own reduced outlook for 3.5% growth. Haleon expects the weakness to persist through the end of the cold and flu season in March, Chief Executive Officer Brian McNamara said in an interview. The issue was exacerbated by weak US consumer confidence, with sales of toothpaste including Sensodyne “a little more muted than we’ve seen in the past.” Haleon shares dropped as much as 5.6%, their biggest intraday loss since April 2025. Consumer brands like Haleon’s are facing slower growth in the US, usually a high-margin and reliable market, as shoppers push back against higher costs. Uncertainty about the government’s response after the US Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s tariffs has added to the caution. Haleon, which was carved out from drugmakers GSK Plc and Pfizer Inc., in July cut its forecast for 2025 revenue growth to 3.5%, after setting an earlier target for a 4% to 6% annual rise. The company doesn’t need to take significant pricing decisions in the US, but rather focus on boosting competitiveness, McNamara said. He said Haleon is back to growing share in the market with Advil, and more of the company’s products will get better placement with key retailers in the second quarter. “We can’t control what the market does, but we do expect to continue and improve on our competitiveness,” McNamara said. “So we’re confident we’ll get the US back to growth and we think that will progress throughout the year.” McNamara said the company is on track to reduce at least £800 million ($1.08 billion) in costs over the next five years by streamlining its portfolio and operations. It could also see bolt-on acquisitions. Haleo...
Amusing oddballs populate a wise-cracking wheeler-dealer’s tale of leaving London for Dubai in search of loot and laughs The narrator of Tibor Fischer’s eighth novel, My Bags Are Big, is a walking anachronism. Dan is “an old school crypto geezer” who hails from south London and lives in Dubai, where he drives an old Citroën and wears a Mickey Mouse watch given to him by his father in the 1970s. He...
Amusing oddballs populate a wise-cracking wheeler-dealer’s tale of leaving London for Dubai in search of loot and laughs The narrator of Tibor Fischer’s eighth novel, My Bags Are Big, is a walking anachronism. Dan is “an old school crypto geezer” who hails from south London and lives in Dubai, where he drives an old Citroën and wears a Mickey Mouse watch given to him by his father in the 1970s. He’s done well for himself – the bags of the title are a slang term for a cryptocurrency wallet – though it didn’t happen overnight. “Get rich quick? It was very much a get slightly comfortable slowly deal.” His adopted city, he tells us, is “a cross between Las Vegas, an airport departure lounge and a pirate bay”, and a magnet for low-status westerners looking to reinvent themselves: “Assistant masseurs at second division football clubs. Taxi drivers. Linen porters. Nail technicians. Dog groomers. Life coaches. They’re all through the pearly gates, here in Dubai.” Dan himself is one such individual. Having just turned 60, he relates his journey from Catford to Dubai, via a calamitous career in sports management, a doomed love affair with a quantum physicist, and several brief encounters with David Bowie. In the 80s he won a vindaloo-eating contest and had a Monty Python-esque run-in with some Maoist student revolutionaries. The novel is populated by amusing oddballs, including one character who belongs to an international bollard appreciation society, and another who superstitiously smears caviar on to a lottery ticket in the hope of “giving it a taste of wealth”. Continue reading...
Tate Modern, London Forget the sex and drugs of the 90s. This wildly emotional exhibition shows that Emin’s life’s work has been turning suffering into sculpture, insults into poetry – and agony into art It feels as if you’re intruding. Walking into Tate Modern’s huge Tracey Emin retrospective is like walking in on her crying, naked, sobbing and snotty, as if you have stumbled into something painf...
Tate Modern, London Forget the sex and drugs of the 90s. This wildly emotional exhibition shows that Emin’s life’s work has been turning suffering into sculpture, insults into poetry – and agony into art It feels as if you’re intruding. Walking into Tate Modern’s huge Tracey Emin retrospective is like walking in on her crying, naked, sobbing and snotty, as if you have stumbled into something painfully private. That’s not an easy thing to pull off in the cavernous spaces of our leading contemporary art institution, but that’s what makes Tracey – it doesn’t feel right calling her Emin, she pulls you so close it’s like you know her, it’s Tracey isn’t it? – such a special, important, era-defining artist. Continue reading...
Debate to take place in Westminster as some backbench Labour members join calls for a shake-up of the system Angry backbench Labour MPs have attacked ministers over the student loans crisis, claiming graduates are being “outrageously scammed”. Ahead of a Commons Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday morning, some Labour MPs joined calls for an urgent shake-up of the current “unfair” system. Continu...
Debate to take place in Westminster as some backbench Labour members join calls for a shake-up of the system Angry backbench Labour MPs have attacked ministers over the student loans crisis, claiming graduates are being “outrageously scammed”. Ahead of a Commons Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday morning, some Labour MPs joined calls for an urgent shake-up of the current “unfair” system. Continue reading...
Former England keeper has met with Sarina Wiegman She adds: ‘I’m human. I’m not perfect, I’m still learning’ Mary Earps said she has “learned some tough lessons” and understands why there was such strong condemnation of comments made in her autobiography last year. The former England goalkeeper said the “last thing she wanted to do” was hurt Sarina Wiegman and she is grateful to have had a chance ...
Former England keeper has met with Sarina Wiegman She adds: ‘I’m human. I’m not perfect, I’m still learning’ Mary Earps said she has “learned some tough lessons” and understands why there was such strong condemnation of comments made in her autobiography last year. The former England goalkeeper said the “last thing she wanted to do” was hurt Sarina Wiegman and she is grateful to have had a chance to meet up with the Lionesses head coach and have a “really positive conversation” since the release of her book in November, which led to a huge backlash. Continue reading...
Modine plays a dying director shooting his final film – alongside Derek Jacobi, John Cleese and Stuart Townsend – in this baffling existential drama Shot in Ireland, so at least the landscapes look pretty, this cuckoo-bananas drama stars Matthew Modine – rocking a white mop of hair and a bushy brush of fake beard – an American film director called Steve who is facing the end of his life. Or maybe ...
Modine plays a dying director shooting his final film – alongside Derek Jacobi, John Cleese and Stuart Townsend – in this baffling existential drama Shot in Ireland, so at least the landscapes look pretty, this cuckoo-bananas drama stars Matthew Modine – rocking a white mop of hair and a bushy brush of fake beard – an American film director called Steve who is facing the end of his life. Or maybe he is God himself, casting souls in some indie-budget nonsense about a film director named Steve who looks just like him – or a deluded mortal who thinks he’s God who is fantasising all this on his death bed, or all those things at once. Like the concept of the Holy Trinity, this is not easy for mere mortals to comprehend, but it has to be said that this is a mostly annoying and only fitfully interesting film. To give The Martini Shot the barest minimum of dues, it at least has a few fine actors in the cast, like Modine himself, Derek Jacobi, John Cleese, Stuart Townsend and, weirdly, Morgana Robinson (so great as Pippa Middleton in The Windsors ). They help ease the tedium of waiting for this waffly, “spiritual” self-indulgent nonsense to finish. Continue reading...
With a projected 15-30%CAGR in lithium prices and a disciplined cost-cutting program, ALB shares are primed to continue their robust performance in 2026.
With a projected 15-30%CAGR in lithium prices and a disciplined cost-cutting program, ALB shares are primed to continue their robust performance in 2026.
Upstart's AI-powered lending platform faces headwinds as a projected 2026 windfall tax return season is expected to reduce consumer demand for loans among its core user base.
Upstart's AI-powered lending platform faces headwinds as a projected 2026 windfall tax return season is expected to reduce consumer demand for loans among its core user base.
Singapore’s three biggest banks pulled in a combined S$77 billion ($61 billion) in net new wealth money last year as geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainty pushed Asia’s rich to move more assets to the city-state. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. said Wednesday that net new money rose 30% to S$27 billion, lifting wealth assets under management to a record S$343 billion. The results follow simila...
Singapore’s three biggest banks pulled in a combined S$77 billion ($61 billion) in net new wealth money last year as geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainty pushed Asia’s rich to move more assets to the city-state. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. said Wednesday that net new money rose 30% to S$27 billion, lifting wealth assets under management to a record S$343 billion. The results follow similar disclosures from DBS Group Holdings Ltd. , which reported S$39 billion in fresh inflows, bringing its wealth AUM to S$488 billion. United Overseas Bank Ltd. reported S$11 billion in net new money, with high-net-worth AUM reaching S$201 billion. The figures highlight how Singapore’s lenders are relying more on wealth fees as loan margins narrow. That shift towards more wealth and investment products boosted the banks’ wealth management fee, which rose 33% at OCBC and 29% at DBS last year. The inflows also came amid conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, strained US-China ties and uneven growth in China that have unsettled regional investors. DBS CEO Tan Su Shan struck an upbeat tone earlier this month, saying she was “very happy to see the record net new money growth, which is structural.” The bank, already one of Asia’s largest wealth managers outside China, has built a sizable wealth business, with growth across China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, she added. OCBC, meanwhile, plans to extend its private banking operations in Indonesia, drawing on its unit Bank of Singapore Ltd. to serve affluent clients in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. The lender is seeking to move upmarket by targeting high-net-worth individuals with assets both at home and abroad. “We have been there for 80 years,” Tan said. “We continue to be invested and very committed to the Indonesian market.” OCBC Profit Climbs on Wealth as New CEO Tan Shares Strategy Singapore Cuts Wait Time for Rich People Seeking to Set Up Singapore Bank OCBC’s Shares Hit Record as Wealth Unit Shines ...