51% of Americans' finances are being negatively affected by COVID-19, according to Prudential's latest Financial Wellness Census. Jamie Kalamarides, Prudential Group Insurance President, joins Yahoo Finance's Zack Guzman to discuss.
Standard Chartered said it has entered agreements with Animoca Brands, a company which specialises in Web3 for leveraging blockchains, and HKT, a major telecommunications service provider in Hong Kong, in order to "enable the JV to tap into crypto-native opportunities" and "enhance both domestic and cross-border payments", according to its statement. StanChart said it looks forward to becoming one of the first issuers launching an HKD-backed stablecoin with its strategic partners, according to Mary Huen, Chief Executive Officer of the bank's Hong Kong and Greater China & North Asia division.
Singapore's opposition leader was fined on Monday for lying to parliament while helping a fellow party member cover up a false witness account, but narrowly avoided being barred from contesting upcoming national elections.Its leaders have said they hope to further increase the party's numbers in parliament in the upcoming elections, which will be new premier Lawrence Wong's first major political test. mba/skc/dhw
Sri Lanka is banking on vehicle import taxes to boost revenue and revive the island nation's battered economy, leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's maiden budget showed on Monday."For the year 2025, the bulk of revenue gains is expected to be delivered by the liberalisation of motor vehicle imports," the president told parliament.
China's Foreign Ministry took issue Monday with a revised U.S. government fact sheet that removed a line on American opposition to independence for Taiwan. The United States has “gravely backpedaled” on its position on Taiwan and sent the wrong message to “separatist forces" on the island, ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said. Taiwan and China split in 1949 during the civil war that brought the communists to power in China.
China and the Cook Islands signed an action plan last week for a comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday, giving further details about a deal expected to raise concerns in New Zealand. New Zealand, a U.S. partner which has constitutional ties with the Cook Islands, has expressed wariness about Beijing's growing presence in the South Pacific amid fears it could destabilise Western influence. Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown witnessed the signing of a number of bilateral cooperation documents, including the action plan, last week in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters.
Canceled meetings and limited updates on life-threatening diseases. These are some of the real-world implications caused by sweeping mandates on health agencies.
Eric Adams has united Democrats in New York City. From across the boroughs and otherwise warring ideological factions, there is widespread agreement that the mayor has little to no chance of winning the Democratic primary he’s running in for reelection this June — and that he shouldn’t even try.
Russia's sovereign wealth fund chief Kirill Dmitriev will meet a U.S. delegation in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to focus on strengthening ties and increased economic cooperation, a source in Riyadh told Reuters. The meeting involving Dmitriev is the first confirmation that the U.S.-educated former Goldman Sachs banker will be involved in talks with the United States. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is due in Saudi Arabia to meet Russian officials in Saudi Arabia alongside Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz and White House Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
The Hong Kong government has responded for the first time to questions about the use of cryptocurrencies as proof of wealth for an immigration scheme after a local accountant talked publicly about two cases that had accepted the digital assets. Clement Siu, a Hong Kong-based certified public accountant, told media he had handled two cases where bitcoin and ether were used as proof of clients' assets. Cryptocurriences are not approved assets for direct investment under the immigration scheme, but Siu's cases suggested they can be used as proof of a potential immigrant's wealth, underscoring their growing recognition as a mainstream asset.
When police in western France searched surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec's home after he raped his 6-year-old neighbour in 2017, they found a cache of sex dolls, wigs and child pornography. They said they also discovered electronic diaries that appeared to detail nearly three decades of rapes and sexual assaults on hundreds of his young patients in hospitals across the region. In 2020, Le Scouarnec was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the rape and sexual assault of his child neighbour, as well as his two nieces and a 4-year-old patient.
Markets fluctuated on Monday as investors assessed the global economic outlook while US President Donald Trump pushes ahead with his trade war.Investors are also keeping tabs on developments over the Ukraine war after Trump said on Sunday he could meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin "very soon", adding he believed he genuinely wanted to stop the fighting.
European leaders are gathering in France for an emergency summit on Ukraine after the Trump administration announced it was opening talks with Russia on ending the war without a European presence.
Germany enters the final week of election campaigning Monday, with the debate more heated than ever amid controversy over alleged US interference in favour of the far right.- Ukraine war - The final stage of the campaign gets underway as Europe confronts a growing rift with Washington over the Ukraine war, with Germany expected to have a seat at the table in Paris security talks on Monday.
China is not ready for war, according to a contentious report from a US think tank, which claims the main motivation for the ruling Communist Party’s expansive push for military modernization is to retain its grip on power – not fight an overseas foe.
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has sparked alarm by seeking access to a system with the US tax office that has detailed financial data about millions of Americans, US media reported.But it has sparked alarm within the government and among privacy experts who say granting Musk access to private taxpayer data could be extraordinarily dangerous, according to ABC News.
Chinese AI app DeepSeek will not be available to download in South Korea pending a review of its handling of user data, Seoul authorities said Monday.The AI chatbot is still in use for those who have already downloaded the app.
Wyoming officials on Sunday said a third death has been confirmed from a fiery multi-vehicle pileup inside a tunnel on Interstate 80.
Iran has defended its nuclear programme and will not be hesitant to continue doing so, Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday, a day after Israel and the U.S. vowed to counter Iran's nuclear ambitions. "Iran's peaceful nuclear programme is ongoing, and has been for the last three decades, based on Iran's rights as a member in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons... definitely we will not show any weakness in this regard," he said.
Trump suggested he’s above the law as his administration challenges the courts’ authority to rein in his rule.
Pope Francis was in hospital for a fourth day on Monday, with the Vatican saying he was being treated for a respiratory tract infection and was in stable condition. The 88-year-old pontiff had a peaceful night on Sunday, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. The Vatican had not yet provided an update on the pope's condition on Monday.
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