Customers buying groceries at a supermarket in Singapore. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Singapore’s reputation for financial prudence and high savings is showing signs of strain. Rising costs and a growing prioritization for experiences and self-care are taking precedence over long-term financial planning, experts observed. “At the end of every month, when my salary … Read more
Shares of Li Auto could be under pressure as the company faces tough competition, according to JPMorgan. Analyst Nick Lai downgraded the Chinese electric vehicle company to neutral from overweight and lowered his price target by $5 to $28. His new target suggests the stock — which is up 3.8% year to date —still has … Read more
Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images Even a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is not immune to inflation’s bite. Although grocery prices cooled in July, food costs, overall, are trending higher, according to the latest consumer price index. As a result of food cost inflation, parents who pack lunches for their school-age children … Read more
Rolls of Kodak Gold film hang on a shelf at the Precision Camera & Video store on August 12, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Clair Sapilewski has dozens of rolls of camera film ready to use in her cupboard at all times. A photography major at American University, the 21-year-old said … Read more
Deere falls on mixed guidance Deere shares fell more than 6% in the premarket after the agriculture equipment maker issued mixed guidance for the fiscal year. The company expects net income of $4.75 billion to $5.25 billion. The top end of that range is below a prior guidance that showed net income coming in at … Read more
Dr. E.J. Antoni, nominee for the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics stands next to Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Courtesy: Donald J. Trump via Truth Social WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the … Read more
The bubble of gas around the red supergiant DFK 52 ALMA/Mark Siebert et al. 2025 A dying star is expelling a vast sphere of dust and gas around it that is about half as wide as our solar system. Astronomers are at a loss to explain it, as there is no known mechanism that could … Read more
The Sirius binary star system photographed with a neuromorphic camera Satyapreet Singh, Chetan Singh Thakur, Nirupam Roy, Indian Institute of Science Cameras that mimic human eyesight could have key advantages for astronomers, allowing them to capture extremely bright and dim objects in the same image and track fast-moving objects without motion blur. Traditional digital cameras … Read more
NASA’s Juno spacecraft could be sent to intercept the interstellar object NASA/JPL-Caltech An interstellar object currently hurtling through our solar system will loop around the sun and disappear back into the remote depths of the cosmos within months. Astronomers will be able to capture images as comet 3I/ATLAS traverses our region of space, but do … Read more
A concept image of NASA’s Fission Surface Power Project NASA NASA is going to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by the mid-2030s. That’s the plan outlined in a new directive from the US space agency’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy. It isn’t a new idea – NASA awarded contracts in 2022 to three companies … Read more