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Walt Disney eyes thousands of job cuts as it targets 20% cost savings

Disney has cut billions of dollars worth of costs and eliminated thousands of positions in recent years, with reductions impacting every division including ABC, Pixar, ESPN, the film studio

Russia, Ukraine report cyberattacks on emergency, air raid alert systems

Residents received warnings of a 'nuclear danger' on Sunday through the air raid alert app, which millions of Ukrainians rely on for information about incoming Russian missile and drone strikes

Bitcoin's resilience after Binance hack masks lingering market jitters

The original cryptocurrency rose about 1% Monday, trading around $78,300 at 1 p.m. in Singapore

Coal India unit South Eastern Coalfields files for $800 million IPO

The offering will consist entirely of shares sold by parent Coal India, with no fresh issuance, according to the draft prospectus filed with Sebi

Trump banks on rallies to turn out Maga faithful in final midterm push

For Republicans, though, it's unclear whether the president's rallies are a help or a distraction

India's consumers are back, but its stock market is still lagging

Indian stocks have underperformed global markets for more than two years, losing nearly half their value, as foreign capital fled

China's 5k tonne digging machines could become trade weapon against India

Beijing's newest export controls target construction equipment - including tunnel-boring machines, some of the world's largest and most complex industrial devices

DeepSeek drops enhanced coding agent with aim to rival Anthropic

DeepSeek has unveiled an open-source autonomous coding agent that can monitor developer discussions and suggest solutions, intensifying its competition with Anthropic's Claude Code.

US jobs pickup may keep Federal Reserve on track to hike rates again

Forecasters expect the report to show monthly job growth more than doubled in October, to 65,000, while the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.2%

Carlyle Group, KKR get ready to snatch up bargain leveraged loans

Money managers are looking to capitalise on a selloff in the $1.5 trillion US leveraged-loan market, with more than 85% of loans trading below face value

What Asian stock investors need to watch ahead of US midterm elections

A Democratic sweep of both chambers of Congress would likely bring greater scrutiny of the AI industry and data-center buildout

Binance crypto exchange's $6.3 bn heist rattles crypto, draws scrutiny

The US agencies are coordinating with private-sector partners to assess the breach and recover stolen funds, while Binance pledged to cover all losses

US probing possible North Korean link to $6.3 bn Binance hack: Trump

The US president said Washington was investigating whether North Korean hackers were behind the record cryptocurrency theft, as Binance said about $3 billion of the stolen assets had been frozen

Binance hack exposes unsolvable crypto risk: Billions can vanish overnight

The record-breaking theft has shaken confidence in cryptocurrency infra, with Binance and its partners freezing billions of dollars in assets and pledging to reimburse customers for their losses

Apple overtakes Nvidia to become world's most valuable company at $5.03 trn

Apple's market value edged past Nvidia's as concerns over returns from heavy AI infrastructure spending weighed on technology stocks, while the iPhone maker's shares have gained 27 per cent in 2026

China's factory activity eases in October, manufacturing PMI falls to 49.3

The official manufacturing PMI slipped from 50.1 in September, missing economists' forecast of 49.9, while the non-manufacturing index fell to 49.7, adding pressure on Beijing to support growth

Google in talks with Pentagon to join Trump's Golden Dome defence programme

The Pentagon is standing up a new industry group that aims to secure the data that feeds into military software being built for Golden Dome

US appeals court rejects Trump's bid to set aside 20,000 California votes

A 2-1 ruling denied the administration's request to block disputed ballots from being counted until voters' citizenship status is verified ahead of the midterm elections

Mumbai's coastal edge fades as air pollution levels surge sharply

The surge puts the metropolis on track for its sharpest deterioration in air quality during the post-monsoon transition since at least 2019

Microsoft's $25 billion blowout bond puts it in AI winners' circle

The software giant, and one of the premier AI hyperscalers, drew more than four times demand for its 10-part debt sale Thursday