A 34-year-old chef has been arrested for allegedly dripping an unknown liquid on three female pedestrians near Hong Kong’s Tai Wai MTR station in separate incidents during the Christmas and Lunar New Year holiday periods. The first incident took place on Christmas morning, when a woman crossing a footbridge on Mei Tin Road felt liquid…
Hong Kong’s forecaster has issued its first cold weather warning of the season on New Year’s Day as temperatures are expected to fall to a low of 12 degrees Celsius (53.6 Fahrenheit) in urban areas on Friday. The Hong Kong Observatory issued the warning at 4.20pm on Thursday and said a cold front moving across…
Thursday was a bizarre day in the stock market. Investors are still scratching their heads over what caused a sudden and dramatic reversal around midday after a morning of solid gains, but there might be some clues in the latest bout of bitcoin selling. The Dow was up as much as 700 points in Thursday’s…
More swings hit Wall Street on Friday, except the U.S. stock market finished higher this time. After bobbing up and down through the morning, the S&P 500 took off and rallied nearly 2% before finishing with a gain of 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 493 points, or 1.1%, and the Nasdaq composite rose…
It’s been a tough week for the bulls. The selling in the stock market continued on Friday, extending a decline that puts major indexes on track for a sharp weekly loss. The Nasdaq 100 was down more than 5% in five days, heading for its worst weekly performance since the tariff-fueled sell-off in April. Here’s…
For Tesla’s board and many investors, CEO Elon Musk and Tesla’s success are closely linked. Now that a vote on a record-setting pay package for Musk is settled, the bulls are crowing and the naysayers are alarmed. On Thursday, 75% of Tesla shareholders voted to approve Musk’s proposed $1 trillion CEO pay package, contingent on…
US stocks dropped sharply on Thursday as investors took in the worst layoff data for the month of October in over two decades. Employers announced 153,074 job cuts for October, according to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That represents a 183% increase from job cuts announced in September, and marked the worst October for…
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Westport Village hosting annual fashion show on Thursday THAT LEAK. THEY’RE INVESTIGATING. FASHION WILL BE ON THE RUNWAY AT WESTPORT VILLAGE AS PART OF THE SHOPPING CENTER’S ANNUAL FALL FASHION SHOW. SAM CARTER FOUND OUT MUCH OF THE ATTENTION WILL BE ON SHOPPING LOCAL. LIKE IT OR NOT, THESE SEASONS ARE CHANGING. AND IF YOUR…
The record-setting rally in stocks is stumbling this week. US stocks dropped on Thursday as traders took in strong economic data, revised their expectations for Fed rate cuts, and took in wearing momentum in the AI trade. All three major US indexes slipped lower in the early morning, putting them on track for their third…