(RTTNews) - The Japan stock market on Friday snapped the three-day winning streak in which it had surged more than 3,000 points or 5 percent. The Nikkei finished just above the 58,475-point plateau and it may extend its losses on Monday.
(RTTNews) - The Japan stock market on Friday snapped the three-day winning streak in which it had surged more than 3,000 points or 5 percent. The Nikkei finished just above the 58,475-point plateau and it may extend its losses on Monday.
The yuan is rapidly expanding as a global financing source. Just this month, Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund, Samruk-Kazyna, became the first financial institution from Central Asia to issue yuan-denominated debt – worth 3 billion yuan (US$440 million) – in China’s onshore market. Meanwhile, in a first for a euro-zone country, Portugal sold 1.99 billion yuan of eight-year debt in the offshore y...
The yuan is rapidly expanding as a global financing source. Just this month, Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund, Samruk-Kazyna, became the first financial institution from Central Asia to issue yuan-denominated debt – worth 3 billion yuan (US$440 million) – in China’s onshore market. Meanwhile, in a first for a euro-zone country, Portugal sold 1.99 billion yuan of eight-year debt in the offshore yuan bond market. The country’s debt agency said the securities, nicknamed dim sum bonds, aim to...
Good afternoon from Los Angeles and happy second weekend of Coachella to you all. I wrote a piece for Bloomberg about where to eat when Los Angeles is a little emptier . It’s been a very newsy few weeks in the music business, from the Live Nation antitrust trial to the return of Justin Bieber and Ye. We broke down a few of these stories on The Town while Sam Sanders and I discussed whether Ye is f...
Good afternoon from Los Angeles and happy second weekend of Coachella to you all. I wrote a piece for Bloomberg about where to eat when Los Angeles is a little emptier . It’s been a very newsy few weeks in the music business, from the Live Nation antitrust trial to the return of Justin Bieber and Ye. We broke down a few of these stories on The Town while Sam Sanders and I discussed whether Ye is forgiven on his podcast . Five things you need to know Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is stepping down from the company’s board. He says it’s so he can devote his time to other endeavors. Hastings has been laying the groundwork for his departure, transitioning from sole CEO to co-CEO to executive chairman to just chairman. Hollywood stars and filmmakers signed a letter objecting to the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. They are hoping this is just the start of a campaign against the deal. Over half of internet traffic is now made up of AI bots . Apple and Google continue to offer mobile apps that let users digitally undress celebrities. Netflix shares plummeted Friday after the company forecast earnings that disappointed investors. The stock had been on a tear since Netflix walked away from the Warner Bros. deal. Bill Ackman’s hunt for Universal’s missing billions On Jan. 8, Universal Music Group Chief Executive Officer Lucian Grainge released a memo to explain why the year ahead looked so promising. Grainge has issued one of these mission statements every January for a few years now to offer his view on the state of the music industry, outline his priorities and tout his company’s dominance. UMG accounted for nine of the 10 best-selling acts in the world last year – including the majority of the five on every major streaming service. “No other company — in music or any other sector of entertainment — has ever achieved such a level of success and done so with such consistency,” Grainge wrote. And yet, shares in the company slid 8% over the next three months. Shares in U...
Appeals Court Allows Construction Of White House Ballroom To Continue A U.S. appeals court on April 17 put on hold a lower court order that had halted construction of the White House ballroom, allowing the project to proceed for now. Previously, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon issued a preliminary injunction blocking above-ground construction of the ballroom but allowed “below-ground” constructio...
Appeals Court Allows Construction Of White House Ballroom To Continue A U.S. appeals court on April 17 put on hold a lower court order that had halted construction of the White House ballroom, allowing the project to proceed for now. Previously, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon issued a preliminary injunction blocking above-ground construction of the ballroom but allowed “below-ground” construction of national security facilities to continue. Leon had said the project cannot continue without authorization from Congress. But now, as Aldgra Fredly reports for The Epoch Times , a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on April 17 blocked Leon’s injunction and scheduled a June 5 hearing to decide on whether the project should be halted. The Epoch Times reached out to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which filed the lawsuit last year, but did not receive a response by publication time. The White House first announced the project in July 2025, saying it would span 90,000 square feet. The construction phase began in September 2025, and the ballroom is expected to be completed before President Donald Trump’s presidency ends in early 2029, according to the White House. The National Capital Planning Commission approved the ballroom project on April 2. In December 2025, the National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit alleging that construction of the White House ballroom is unlawful and requested that the court halt the project. Leon ruled in favor of the National Trust for Historic Preservation on March 31, ordering that “the ballroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion.” The judge later clarified in an April 16 ruling that below-ground construction, including “the construction of any ‘top-secret excavations, bunkers, bomb-shelters, protective partitioning, military installations, and hospital and medical facilities,’ as well as such above-ground construction strictly ne...