Blog Verité

Keepin’ News Real

Argentina court suspends Milei’s ‘mega-decree’ labor law reforms

Argentine judges on Wednesday suspended labor law changes that form part of a mega-decree of sweeping economic reforms and deregulation announced by the country’s libertarian new president, Javier Milei. The CGT trade union body had challenged the changes, which technically

Read More

APA to Buy Callon Petroleum in $4.5 Billion Deal

Energy company APA has agreed to buy smaller peer Callon Petroleum in a stock-swap deal valued at about $4.5 billion, including assumed debt.

Read More

Ode to the father: Bangladesh’s political personality cult

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina still grieves the assassination of her father — the country’s founder — nearly 50 years ago, and her government ensures the nation grieves with her. Once sidelined from official history, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is now

Read More

Hopes fade for survivors of Japan quake

Thousands of Japanese rescuers on Thursday battled rubble and blocked roads as hopes faded for dozens listed as missing three days after a devastating earthquake that killed at least 81. Hundreds of people in more than a dozen communities remained

Read More

Moonwalk Bio Grabs $57 Million, Joins Push for ‘Epigenetic’ Treatments

Moonwalk and other biotech startups hope to treat diseases by activating beneficial genes and suppressing disease-causing ones.

Read More

HarbourVest’s Scott Voss Sees a Return to Core Strategies This Year

Forecasts were all over the map in 2023 and mostly wrong, the managing director says. This year, investors should resist the urge to market-time and be guided by ‘sound long-term investment policy.’

Read More

Google Is Finally Killing Cookies. Advertisers Still Aren’t Ready.

The search giant plans to remove a technology seen as critical to the digital-ad industry.

Read More

Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search

Perplexity, with a fraction of Google’s users, raised the largest sum by an internet search startup in recent years.

Read More

Russia Moves Forward With Plans to Buy Iranian Ballistic Missiles

Moscow in recent weeks has also begun receiving ballistic missiles from North Korea.

Read More

Where the Republican presidential candidates stand on the economy

GOP presidential hopefuls know that the economy is an important issue — if not the top issue — for voters. That means it’s a big talker on the campaign trail and a focus area for winning votes. (Image credit: Jim

Read More