Seven & i shares surge as founding family reportedly taking firm private

TOKYO, JAPAN – 2024/10/11: Logo at the Seven & i Holdings headquarters in Tokyo.  Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of 7-Eleven owner Seven & i soared nearly 11% on Wednesday after a report said the company’s founding family was raising more than $50 billion to take the company private within this fiscal…

Trump tariffs to push down U.S. growth going into 2026: Morgan Stanley

Prices on displayed in a New York grocery store on Feb. 1, 2023. Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will dent U.S. economic growth going into 2026, said Morgan Stanley’s chief global economist Seth Carpenter. President-elect Trump has stated that he intends to impose a blanket tariff of 10%…

More than two dozen lawsuits target Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs as he sits in jail

Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is currently in federal custody awaiting trial on charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. His arrest in New York came amid a series of civil suits alleging sexual assault and physical violence, some going back to the 1990s. More than two dozen people have filed lawsuits against the rapper, accusing…

Sabrina Carpenter music video leads to New York priest losing job

A New York priest who let popstar Sabrina Carpenter film provocative scenes for a music video inside his church has been accused of mismanagement and stripped of his duties. Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello was relieved of “any pastoral oversight or governance role” at the church, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn said in a statement. Church…

Living in Indian capital is like watching a dystopian film again and again

Getty Images Pollution has disrupted transport services in Delhi Winter has come to Delhi and with it, a familiar sense of gloom. The sky here is grey and there is a thick, visible blanket of smog. If you stay outdoors for more than a few minutes, you can almost taste ash. You will feel breathless…

Diddy is calling witnesses from prison, prosecutors say

Reuters Diddy is facing both civil and criminal lawsuits in the US Sean “Diddy” Combs has been breaking prison rules by contacting potential witnesses in his upcoming sex trafficking trial, prosecutors have alleged. The music mogul is accused of making “relentless efforts” to “corruptly influence witness testimony”, by using other inmates’ telephone accounts, and using…

Geopolitics are finally starting to play a role in stock market action

There’s an old Wall Street phrase, “news follows the tape.” It means that stock price movements often occur before news is widely known. That’s been happening to stocks. The S & P 500 has been drifting lower for a week. It’s been drifting lower on valuation concerns, concerns on potentially fewer rate cuts, stickier bond…

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