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Indonesia, US firms sign over US$7 billion in trade, investment deals

The South-east Asian country is the 11th largest market for all American farm goods

Live Nation shares fell 3.1 per cent in after-hours trading following the decision by US District Judge Arun Subramanian in Manhattan.

US judge rejects Live Nation bid to dismiss antitrust lawsuit over ticket pricing

Fans and politicians had long urged regulators to reexamine Live Nation’s 2010 purchase of Ticketmaster

Many banks say they are also mindful of digital assets’ potential to reshape customer behaviour, and want to stay at the forefront of development.

US banks build tokenised deposit network to guard their turf

The full service is expected to be available for customers of the banks involved in the fourth quarter

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says:  “The proceeds are structured so Japan earns its return, and America gains strategic assets... and strengthened energy dominance."

Japan to invest US$36 billion in US projects under US$550 billion Trump deal

This is the first tranche of Tokyo’s US$550 billion commitment; the most significant investment is a natural gas facility in Ohio

Affordability remains a challenge for millions of would-be homebuyers and continues to restrain the housing market.

US homebuilder sentiment dips to five-month low on affordability

Mortgage rates are near the lowest in more than a year, but still double the level that prevailed throughout much of 2021

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackso has died aged 84.

Reaction to death of US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson

US CIVIL rights leader Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister from the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and ran twice for the Democratic presidential nomination, has d...

Price floors have long been discussed among critical minerals industry players as a way to shield non-Chinese companies from the Asian nation flooding markets.

US agencies have developed critical minerals price floor system

It’s the latest update to progress being made by the US and its allies to ringfence Western companies from China’s pressure on those markets

US forces board the vessel Veronica III, which tried to defy US President Donald Trump's blockade, according to the US Department of Defense.

US forces board second sanctioned oil tanker in Indian Ocean

THE US military boarded an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel for thousands of miles, saying it tried to circumvent President Donald Trump’s energy blockade in the Caribbean agai...

Anthropic’s AI model Claude was used in the US military’s operation to capture former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute: Axios

It is pushing AI companies to let the military use their tools in areas such as weapons development and intelligence collection

DayOne closed a more than US$2 billion Series C funding round in January to support its international expansion.

GDS-backed DayOne to pick banks for US$5 billion US IPO, sources say

Bank of America and Citigroup are working on the deal, they add