Southeast Asia to be key drivers of LNG market by end of decade

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage units. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images Southeast Asian countries are expected to be key demand drivers for the LNG market by 2030, industry watchers say. Trade in global liquefied natural gas rose to a record in 2022, fueled largely by a surge in demand from Europe as the … Read more

BOJ increases Wednesday’s bond purchase as 10-year JGB yields hit decade peak

A pedestrian walks past the Bank of Japan (BoJ) building in central Tokyo on July 28, 2023. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images The Bank of Japan announced it’s increasing its bond purchases at Wednesday’s auction, as a spike in government bond yields tests its resolve to defend its yield curve control policy. … Read more

Angelina Jolie Opens Up About ‘Healing’ and Not Being Herself ‘For a Decade’ After Brad Pitt Split

Angelina Jolie candidly shares her emotional journey in a new interview with Vogue, revealing that the experience of being a single mother amid a tumultuous divorce from Brad Pitt has been a lifeline that saved her from darker places. Jolie, a single mother of six children, speaks openly about how parenthood has been her anchor … Read more

Bond expert says Japan hikes could spark a decade of repatriation

The Bank of Japan could be forced into hiking rates sooner than expected if the Japanese yen weakens beyond 150 to the dollar, according to Bob Michele, global head of fixed income at JP Morgan Asset Management. Higher rates could then unwind the yen carry trade and spark a return of Japanese capital to its … Read more

New York is a tech startup hotbed after almost a decade of IPOs

Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, speaks at the company’s Dash conference in San Francisco on Aug. 3, 2023. Datadog Albert Wang, a native Californian, moved to New York from Boston with his wife a decade ago and got a job as a product manager at Datadog, which at the time was a fledgling … Read more

Libya floods: How a decade of battle and division put Libya in peril

Touch upon this storyComment Complete neighborhoods leveled. Bridges and roads shattered. Electrical energy strains downed. Hospitals overwhelmed by casualties. Our bodies left mendacity within the streets. Mass graves filling with corpses. The scenes of devastation in japanese Libya following catastrophic floods this week are eerily harking back to different moments of destruction within the nation’s … Read more

World Smartphone Shipments Will Hit Lowest Level in a Decade, IDC Says

Smartphone shipments are predicted to drop 4.7% globally this yr, in keeping with a brand new report from the Worldwide Knowledge Company, which forecast 1.15 billion units in 2023, the bottom quantity in a decade. In its Worldwide Quarterly Cell Telephone Tracker knowledge printed Wednesday, IDC pointed to a weaker world economic system and ongoing inflation … Read more

Johannesburg residents joyful after first snow in a decade

Touch upon this storyComment On Monday, residents of Johannesburg have been capable of pack snowballs and watch delicate flurries float down for the primary time in over a decade. Although some elements of South Africa usually see snow, the final recorded snowfall in Johannesburg, which is positioned within the nation’s Gauteng province, was in 2012. … Read more