Posts by Liam Redmond
Damning report labels FBI ‘rudderless ship’ under Kash Patel — with he and Dan Bongino more concerned with building ‘personal résumés’
[ad_1] FBI Director Kash Patel is facing withering criticism from an alliance of active-duty and retired agents and analysts, days after the White House denied media reports that the president is about to fire him. A troubling new report card on the first six months of Patel’s leadership concludes he is “in over his head”…
Read MoreMetaOptics shares close 16.8% higher on proposed share placement
[ad_1] Proceeds are expected to strengthen the group’s financial position and expand its capital base to support a growing pipeline of global orders [SINGAPORE] Shares of semiconductor optics company MetaOptics soared by close to 12 per cent on the morning of Monday (Dec 1) after it announced that it is proposing to raise S$4.85 million…
Read MoreMetaOptics shares soar nearly 14% on proposed share placement
[ad_1] Proceeds are expected to strengthen the group’s financial position and expand its capital base to support a growing pipeline of global orders [SINGAPORE] Shares of semiconductor optics company MetaOptics soared close to 12 per cent on the morning of Monday (Dec 1) after the firm announced it is proposing to raise S$4.85 million through…
Read MoreIrate passenger kicked off United Airlines flight in Newark after cursing out attendant: ‘F–king c–ts’
[ad_1] This potty-mouthed passenger took a stand — and lost her seat. A United Airlines passenger’s meltdown went viral after the irate woman lobbed a few choice words at a poised flight attendant during a delay on the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport. A fellow traveler captured the woman’s entire tirade — which quickly…
Read MoreSilver hits fresh record after trading outage, supply tightness
[ad_1] Its most recent surge has been supported by renewed concerns of tightness in the global market [SINGAPORE] Silver jumped to a record, reinforcing a gain of nearly 6 per cent in the previous session, when a trading outage added to ongoing supply tightness and rising expectations for an interest-rate cut in the US. The…
Read MoreSilver jumps to record high on supply tightness, rate-cut hopes
[ad_1] Markets are fully pricing in a quarter-point rate cut on continued weakness in the American labour market and a series of dovish comments by Fed officials [SINGAPORE] Silver jumped more than 2 per cent to a record high, supported by ongoing supply tightness and rising expectations for an interest-rate cut in the US this…
Read MoreMarco Polo Marine H2 profit quadruples to S$47.9 million on impairment reversals
[ad_1] This is attributed to a combination of stronger underlying performance and several extraordinary gains [SINGAPORE] Marco Polo Marine posted on Saturday (Nov 29) a nearly four times rise (348 per cent) in net profit to S$47.9 million for its second half ended Sep 30, 2025, from S$10.7 million in the previous corresponding period. For…
Read MoreMarco Polo Marine H2 profit jumps over 4 times to S$47.9 million on impairment reversals
[ad_1] This is attributed to a combination of stronger underlying performance and several extraordinary gains [SINGAPORE] Marco Polo Marine posted on Saturday (Nov 29) a more than four times, or 348 per cent increase, in net profit to S$47.9 million for its second half ended Sep 30, 2025, from S$10.7 million in the previous corresponding…
Read MoreFemale pilot, Navy officer flight student presumed dead after plane plummets into New Orleans lake
[ad_1] A flight instructor and her student — a father-to-be and US Navy officer — are presumed dead after their plane plummeted into a New Orleans lake, according to authorities and reports. Taylor Dickey, 30, and her student, later identified as 30-year-old Navy Lt. David Michael Jahn, took off from Gulfport–Biloxi International Airport in a…
Read MoreLow Keng Huat controlling shareholders launch delisting offer at S$0.72 a share
[ad_1] The cash offer price represents a premium of 17.1% over the last transacted price of S$0.615 [SINGAPORE] The majority shareholders of Low Keng Huat (Singapore) (LKH) have launched a voluntary conditional general offer to take the mainboard-listed construction and property developer private at S$0.72 per share. The offer is being made through a special…
Read MoreASX announcements platform operational issue ‘largely resolved’
[ad_1] [SYDNEY] Embattled stock exchange operator Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is facing fresh pressure to enact its turnaround plan, after its announcements platform suffered an outage on Monday (Dec 1), forcing about 80 stocks to be placed on a trading halt. The platform went down just before 9 am (2200 GMT) and was still not…
Read MoreAustralia’s ASX hit by outage affecting corporate announcements, website shows
[ad_1] [BENGALURU] The Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX) announcements platform was down on Monday (Dec 1), with companies due to release price-sensitive information placed in a trading halt, according to a company spokesperson. The outage is the latest in a string of problems for the stock exchange operator that has been criticised by the Australian Securities…
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