Pedestrians walking across with crowded traffic at Shibuya crossing square. Jaczhou | E+ | Getty Images Japan’s Nikkei 225 hit a record high Thursday, powered by banking, electronics and consumer stocks as robust earnings and investor-friendly measures fuel a blistering rally in Japanese equities this year. The Nikkei 225 jumped nearly 2% to hit 39,029, … Read more
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) slammed Tucker Carlson over a clip where he praised a Russian grocery store experience during his widely condemned Moscow trip. “Ah yes, Russia is so much better than the U.S. with all those cheap groceries and lavish subway stations!,” wrote Tillis in response to clipsthat Carlson shared from the trip Wednesday. … Read more
Worldwide military spending surged by 9 percent year-on-year in 2023 to hit a record $2.2 trillion as multiple conflicts ratcheted up global insecurity, according to a new report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies released on Tuesday. The report, IISS’s 65th annual “Military Balance” publication, also estimated that military spending would set another record … Read more
Maj. Michael Haley, the husband of GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, hit back at former President Donald Trump’s questioning of his whereabouts with a meme on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Haley has since June 2023 been deployed to Africa with the South Carolina Army National Guard. But Trump didn’t let the truth … Read more
TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility – your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. This week was a busy one with … Read more
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One, its all-in-one subscription service that opens up additional storage for free services like Gmail, Drive, and Photos, as well as access to more features. The company had said it was close to the 100 million mark when it … Read more
Total credit card debt reached another record high in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to the latest Household Debt and Credit Report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The outstanding balance grew to $1.13 trillion, an increase of $50 billion over a 90-day period. A spike in credit card debt for the … Read more
Shares of Mitsui Fudosan surged to an all-time high on Monday after a report said U.S. activist investment firm Elliott Management had demanded the company launch a massive stock buyback program. Japan’s largest property developer jumped as much as 11.8% in early afternoon trading to hit a record 4,100 yen. The Financial Times reported that Elliott Management had … Read more
WASHINGTON — In the hours before the United States carried out strikes against Iran-backed militants on Friday, the U.S. hit Iran with more familiar weapons: sanctions and criminal charges. The Biden administration imposed sanctions on officers and officials of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the country’s premier military force, for threatening the integrity of water utilities and … Read more
‘Halloween’ actress Jamie Lee Curtis is celebrating a huge sobriety milestone as she tells others to just take it “one day at a time.” As you may know, Curtis has been open and honest about her “opiate addiction” as she battled it head-on, with no one else knowing about it. The 65-year-old took to social … Read more