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Shares of Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica surged more than 9 per cent in early trading on Friday after the Franco-Italian group reported better than expected quarterly revenue a day earlier, helped by strong demand for its Meta AI glasses.The eyewear giant’s stock exceeded 300 euros per share in early Paris trading, its highest price ever.
A seat at the table could unlock investment opportunities in tourism, real estate, agriculture and renewables [SINGAPORE] Folklore tells of a boy who saved a stranded crocodile. In return, the creature carried him towards the rising sun, fulfilling his dream of seeing the world. It later promised the boy a forever home, transforming into an island named Timor.History tells a bleaker origin story.Fierce contestation between colonial powers in the 16th century split the isle into two: A western half ruled by the Dutch before becoming part of Indonesia; and the eastern half controlled by the Portuguese, until their sudden exit…
It added that this is not expected to have a material impact on its financial position and performance for the financial year ending Dec 31[SINGAPORE] A lawsuit against PropNex Realty, a wholly owned subsidiary of PropNex , has been withdrawn, the real estate services group said in a bourse filing on Friday (Oct 17).The claimants were seeking S$849,287 in damages from PropNex Realty, the company indicated in a Feb 22 filing. This was for the unit’s alleged breach of duty of care owed to the claimants, as well as for its vicarious liability arising from the alleged negligent misrepresentation of…
[SINGAPORE] After a week-long rout that erased hundreds of billions in digital-asset value, Bitcoin has again failed to live up to its billing as a safe harbour asset.Once cast as a hedge against market turmoil – a “digital gold” for the blockchain age – the original cryptocurrency stabilised on Friday (Oct 17) morning in Singapore after sliding alongside global equities and credit to hover near US$109,000, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.Bitcoin had struck an all-time high of US$126,251 as recently as October 6. Days later, a record spree of liquidations sparked by escalating US-China trade tensions coincided with a…
Spain’s Cellnex said on Friday that it has signed a put option agreement to sell all its 99.99 per cent share capital in Towerlink France to Vauban Infra Fibre for 391 million euros ($458 million).The deal, made through the French subsidiary of Europe’s largest mobile phone tower operator, will be fully paid in cash on the closing date of the transaction.In September, Reuters reported – citing people familiar with the matter – that Cellnex was discussing with advisers a potential sale of its data center business in France to focus on its core business as it shifts strategy from acquisitions…
The Singapore Tourism Board expects the opening of new hotels by end-2026 to create more jobs[SINGAPORE] The tourism sector is actively hiring, with about 6,700 vacancies across more than 5,000 job postings on Workforce Singapore’s MyCareersFuture portal in the second quarter of 2025, said the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) on Friday (Oct 17).Close to 700 positions were available from more than 20 exhibitors – hotels, event organisers, attractions and travel agencies – at a career fair held at the inaugural Singapore Hospitality & Tourism Conference on Friday, STB said in a statement.Rachel Loh, STB’s executive director for hospitality and tourism…
Don’t look now, but the Blue Jays are back in the driver’s seat.All it took was giving the ball to a three-time Cy Young award winner, and letting the offense do the rest of the work. Max Scherzer, pitching for the first time in three weeks, made a legendary start in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. That gutsy performance from the future Hall of Famer had a ripple effect. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. slugged his fifth home run of the postseason. No. 9 hitter Andres Gimenez collected four RBIs. The Jays’ lineup flooded the basepaths all night.Given the…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The factory floor used to roar. Walking around his textile mill in southern Buenos Aires, Luciano Galfione pointed out the up-to-the-minute machines that once whirred and clattered as 200 employees churned out fabric to be transformed into athleisure and other apparel for Argentina’s vast middle class.But on Monday afternoon, the factory was so quiet that Galfione’s footsteps rang clear through the compound. A handful of workers at the Galfione Group factory in Argentina’s capital spooled yarn and dyed cloth.Almost two years after libertarian President Javier Milei stormed to power on a…
Blood test to aid cancer treatment and recurrence monitoring now available from a German lab for potentially faster results HAMBURG, Germany, Oct. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — MVZ HPH Institute for Pathology and Hematopathology GmbH, today announced the availability of HPH MRD, a new tumor-informed circulating-tumor DNA (ctDNA) blood test for detecting minimal residual disease (MRD) in patients diagnosed with solid tumor cancers. The HPH MRD test is an in-house test manufactured by HPH that makes use of Haystack MRD technology and is available through a license from Haystack Oncology, a subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics® (NYSE: DGX), which developed and provides the…
TOKYO :The Bank of Japan will continue raising interest rates if economic and price developments move in line with its forecasts, BOJ Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said on Friday.”We will judge without any pre-conception whether our forecasts will materialise,” Uchida said in a speech to an annual meeting of Japanese credit unions.