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Japanese government bond yields have been notching fresh highs as investors price in persistent inflation, tighter monetary policy, as well as fiscal uncertainty. Japan’s 30-year government bond yield notched a record high on Wednesday to hit 3.286%, surging more than 100 basis points this year, while yield on the 20-year debt is at its highest since 1999 at 2.695%, up 80 basis points, LSEG data showed. The benchmark 10-year bond yield is hovering at its highest since 2008 at 1.633%, over 50 basis points higher in 2025. The 40-year yield is up around 90 basis points year-to-date at 3.506%. Rising…
new video loaded: How Tariffs Will Affect This Unique CheeseBy Eshe Nelson, Nikolay Nikolov, Laura Salaberry, Emli Bendixen and Jon Hazell•August 20, 2025Stilton is a special type of blue cheese that can be made in only three English counties. There are just four producers of Stilton left, but this one was crowned best cheese in the world, according to one of the industry’s top awards last year. Eshe Nelson, a business reporter for The New York Times, went to Clawson Farms, the producer of the award-winning Stilton, which is trying to expand its business in the United States, despite the…
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has reported its production and retail operations have been significantly disrupted by a cyber attack. As first reported in the Liverpool Echo, JLR workers at the company’s Halewood plant in Merseyside were told by email early on Monday morning not to come into work, with others sent home. The company has issued a statement on its corporate web site: “JLR has been impacted by a cyber incident. We took immediate action to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down our systems. We are now working at pace to restart our global applications in a controlled…
Who’s starting, who’s hurt, and who’s on the move? NFL news is nonstop, and we’re breaking it all down week by week this season.Here’s the latest on what’s happening around the league entering Week 1:Buccaneers, RT Luke Goedeke agree on extensionThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers and right tackle Luke Goedeke came to terms on a four-year extenstion, worth $90 million ($50 million guaranteed). The Buccaneers selected Goedeke in the second-round of the 2022 NFL Draft and 2025 was the final year of his rookie contract. Now, he and the team are tied together through the 2029 season. In 2024, Goedeke ranked 30th…
Lisa Cook, governor of the Federal Reserve, speaks during a Fed Listens event in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2024.Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook “did not ever commit mortgage fraud,” her lawyer Abbe Lowell said Tuesday in a new court filing bolstering arguments why a judge should temporarily block President Donald Trump from firing her.Lowell argued in the same filing that any of Cook’s statements that she made on mortgage applications — which Trump has cited as the reason for her termination — do not give the president legal cause to remove her.Lowell…
[SINGAPORE] The city-state has benefited from its ability to connect with both the US and China, but these relations risk having a “worst of both worlds” outcome if it gets wrongly caught up in the sharpening rivalry between both superpowers, said Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on Wednesday (Sep 3).Instead, local businesses should respond to these tensions by doubling down on internationalisation and exploring opportunities in the region, as well as in emerging markets such as India, South America, Africa and the Middle East.“As we navigate these changes globally – regionally and domestically – we need to reimagine how we do…
Ashampoo has released Photo Organizer Pro 26, an updated version of its photo management software. The program handles large image collections across local storage and cloud services and new features in this release include support for WebDAV, a classic folder tree view, batch processing for keywords and locations, and an improved import function with duplicate detection. SEE ALSO: GIMP 3.1.4 is here — the best free Photoshop alternative gains link and vector layers The application combines both automated functions and manual organization tools. It can assess photo focus, group series of images, and suggest top-quality photos based on capture data.…
The government needs to look at whether police are “getting the balance right”, Wes Streeting has said after the arrest of the co-writer of Father Ted over posts on social media. The health secretary told Sky News with Wilfred Frost that he can’t comment on the specifics of the case involving Graham Linehan – who also created the Black Books and The IT Crowd comedies – as operational police decisions are “rightly independent of politicians”. Linehan said on Tuesday he was arrested at Heathrow Airport, over social media posts sharing his views on trans rights.But Mr Streeting said more generally…
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Liz Truss has defended her record as prime minister and called for “institutional change” in Britain in the same way she claims Donald Trump delivered “revolution in the US”.The former Conservative leader has spoken to Sky’s Wilfred Frost on his The Master Investor Podcast nearly three years after she resigned as prime minister – 44 days after taking over from Boris Johnson. Politics Hub: Follow live updatesHer downfall began when she and her then chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unleashed £45bn of unfunded tax cuts on the markets in a mini-budget which sparked weeks of economic turmoil in 2022.However, Ms Truss has…