BREAKING: The 🇺🇸 FDA has recommended Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's drug donanemab, facilitating its full approval in the United States later this year.
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BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal reports a group backed by BlackRock and Citadel Securities is 'planning to start a new national stock exchange in Texas, aiming to take on what they see as onerous regulation at the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq'
GDP per capita (current prices), 2023.
🇸🇬 Singapore: $84,730
🇦🇺 Australia: $65,430
🇯🇵 Japan: $33,810
🇰🇷 South Korea: $33,190
🇲🇾 Malaysia: $12,570
🇨🇳 China: $12,510
🇮🇩 Indonesia: $4,940
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: $2,620
🇮🇳 India: $2,500
🇵🇰 Pakistan: $1,460
(IMF)
UNITED STATES: The income needed to 'comfortably afford a home is up 80% since 2020', while median income over the same period has only risen 23%, according to Zillow.
UNITED STATES: Chinese investors own 384,235 acres of American land, according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture.
UNITED STATES: 47% of parents are providing 'financial assistance to their adult children', with an average of $1400 a month given to help cover expenses such as bills and rent, according a report by CBS News.
UNITED STATES: CNBC reports the wealth of the top 1% has hit a record high of $44.6 trillion
Average wealth per adult.
🇨🇭 Switzerland: $685,230
🇺🇸 US: $551,350
🇦🇺 Australia: $496,820
🇩🇰 Denmark: $409,950
🇳🇿 NZ: $388,760
🇳🇴 Norway: $385,340
🇸🇬 Singapore: $382,960
🇨🇦 Canada: $369,580
🇳🇱 Netherlands: $358,230
🇧🇪 Belgium: $352,810
🇫🇷 France: $312,230
🇬🇧 UK: $302,780
(UBS)
BREAKING: Germany, in coordination with Denmark, has supplied Ukraine with an additional 10 Leopard tanks.
BREAKING: Singapore Airlines says in-flight meals will now be suspended when the seatbelt sign is on, after one of its flights earlier this week faced extreme turbulence that left one person dead and dozens injured.
JUST IN: Iran says no sign of foul play in helicopter crash in which its president and foreign minister died
BREAKING: China says that Taiwan's leaders are pushing it into a 'perilous situation of war and danger'
Kabosu, the dog from the Doge meme, has died.
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BREAKING: 100 people dead in landslide in Papua New Guinea
JUST IN: GameStop and AMC Entertainment have closed up 61% and 32% in today's trading.
JUST IN: Australia's government forecasts $9.3 billion surplus for this financial year
BREAKING: Riot police in the Netherlands clear Amsterdam university campus of pro-Palestinian protesters and encampment, arresting around 125 people.
BREAKING: The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel 'will not accept responsibility for this attack for strategic reasons'
JUST IN: China says current tensions in the Middle East are a consequence of the Gaza war
BREAKING: Trump says Israel needs to end the war 'fast'