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Gregor Stuart Hunter

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Asia markets and finance breaking news at Reuters. Previous work in The Guardian, Fortune, Daily Telegraph, Nikkei Asia, WSJ, Bloomberg and The Wire China. Views my own, and all that.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/10/2026
Singapore refers 8 civil servants to police after investigating report alleging privileged information was used for home purchases reut.rs/4jbQDg5
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Singapore refers 8 civil servants to police after investigating report alleging privileged information was used for home purchases
The Singapore government has referred eight civil servants to the police for further investigation after reviewing a study that claimed some officials had used privileged ​planning information for housing transactions, a minister told parliament on Tuesday.
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
TIL literally all of you are Quebecois
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the typical 2000s/early 2010s rap album: first, suffers from problem of existing at all. best songs have already been recorded as mixtapes or done as cameos on other people’s albums. other content held up by copyright disputes because record label is predatory (or literally gang affiliated)
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest: Singapore's link to US stocks is struggling to attract traders www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Singapore's link to US stocks is struggling to attract traders
Singapore's effort to offer trading in American stocks during Asia hours has gotten off to a ​sluggish start as rival products and wary investors keep early volumes extremely low, showing how hard it ...
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scott Bessent: “I am the house now” Several generations of hedge fund traders who grew up reading Edward Thorp’s 1962 classic ‘Beat the Dealer’: “OK”
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Treasury bonds 😑
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm not sure who needs to know this, but the Fed now splits out hedge funds as an institutional class in the Flow of Funds report. So we can now see just how important they've been as buyers of US Treasurys and the answer is ... meh.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
WH Sr. Adviser Hassett: If the Fed hikes, Trump will have an opinion, I'm sure.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
WH Sr. Adviser Hassett: Trump is very serious about the $5,000 proposal.
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Sinkhole Opens at Nicolas Cage’s Malibu Home, Forcing Evacuations
The expanding sinkhole formed under the driveway of a house that the actor bought in 2024. Dozens of other homes were evacuated.
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How it started How it's going
A history of Deutsche Asset Management, from Wikipedia: In 2012, Deutsche Bank announced the establishment of its Asset & Wealth Management (AWM) division which DWS was fully integrated into.[11] The DWS brand name was retained as the name for the German retail business. However, in 2015, AWM was split into Deutsche Asset Management and Deutsche Bank Wealth Management.[12]

In 2017, Deutsche Asset Management was rebranded to DWS with Deutsche Bank planning to publicly list a minority stake of it.[13]DWS to introduce Deutsche Asset Management as new global brand identity
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m sorry what is this gibberish Baseball is NOT on the Bank for International Settlements’ list of permitted sporting analogies for central bankers
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Alright. Now do the Tube
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Very disappointed to learn that the Fated To My Forbidden Alpha microdrama has nothing to do with hedge funds.
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Shy Shein CEO Sky Xu showed up, said nothing, then shuffled off
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Shein shares slumped as much as 10% in the fast-fashion company's first day of trading after its Hong Kong listing. Live coverage here www.reuters.com/world/shein-...
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Shein listing live: Online fashion giant's shares slump in Hong Kong after long-awaited IPO
China-founded global online fashion giant Shein's Hong Kong stock exchange lackluster debut caps a years-long effort ​to tap capital markets.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Forgive me
A version of the famous IBM slide from 1979 warning against letting computers make a management decision overlaid with some of the text from Bluesky's favourite poem 'This Is Just To Say' By William Carlos Williams which reads "a computer can never be held accountable FOR EATING THE PLUMS THAT WERE IN THE ICEBOX therefore a computer must never EAT THE PLUMS THAT WERE IN THE ICEBOX AND WHICH YOU WERE PROBABLY SAVING FOR BREAKFAST". Please clap
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SIEPR @siepr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Not long ago, Erika McEntarfer (@erikamcentarfer.bsky.social) was asked on our Econ To Go podcast if we can still trust gov't data. Here's what she told host @nealemahoney.bsky.social ⤵️. She had more fascinating insights to share. Check out the full episode: tinyurl.com/3vj98ydh
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m sorry; this is hilarious. www.vanityfair.com/story/the-wi...
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The ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ Author Is $1.2 Billion in Debt
VF visits Robert Kiyosaki in Arizona to unravel the self-mythology of a longtime bestseller and friend of Trump.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/08/2026
Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide, has died, Serbian TV reports reut.rs/4qG64Pe
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Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide, has died, Serbian TV reports
Bosnian ​Serb general ‌Ratko Mladic, who ​was serving ​a life sentence ⁠for ​genocide in ​the bloody 1992-95 war ​in ​Bosnia, has died ‌in ⁠the United Nations detention centre ​in ​The ⁠Hague, Belgrade's ​Informer ​TV ⁠reported on Thursday.
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Can’t believe this is how I found out
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...
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The 30,000-mile fish finger
There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So let me get this straight: 1. Nvidia buys Hugging Face 2. Hugging Face has more money to defend itself against cyberattacks from OpenAI 3. OpenAI has to buy more chips from Nvidia to launch better cyberattacks on Hugging Face Is that the trade? I can’t tell if I’m joking anymore
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Reuters @reuters.com · 26/08/2026
Trump administration issues pause on visa appointments for applicants worldwide reut.rs/45NtKHO
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Trump administration issues pause on visa appointments for applicants worldwide
President Donald Trump's administration has ​issued a pause on visa appointments for applicants around the world during ‌an ongoing immigration crackdown by the U.S. government in the Republican leader's second term in the White House.
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It is a shame for workers in the Rust Belt that the U.S. does not transact with any countries from the 19th Century still on the gold standard because it would be experiencing substantial benefits to its terms of trade
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Stephen Jen on yen: "The partnership with Washington could be a signal that Japan is ready to do whatever it takes to shift the narrative." www.reuters.com/commentary/r...
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Yen bears, it’s time to recalibrate
The U.S.-Japan joint intervention to strengthen the yen in early August marked a watershed moment in currency markets that could recalibrate expectations for Japan’s currency, likely leading to a sign...
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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sad news about Dolly Parton. Also an excuse to post this amazing podcast series about her incredible life and influence. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.
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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Stanley Druckenmiller renders an unfavorable opinion of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's use of buybacks to defend against higher yields in a market that is functioning normally. "Every basis point of artificial yield suppression is a subsidy to procrastination." www.wsj.com/opinion/let-...
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Opinion | Let the Bond Market Speak
Rising interest rates are a signal of trouble ahead. Artificially suppressing it heightens the danger.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/08/2026
US tariffs on all cars and trucks, automotive parts and steel will be increased to 50% starting January 1, 2027, President Trump said in a social post after trade talks with Canada collapsed reut.rs/4qCWexx
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Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Washington Post’s petulant firing of opinion writer Karen Attiah has been overruled, and they must rehire her. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/business…
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/08/2026
Samsung Electronics shares skid as record shareholder returns disappoint reut.rs/4qvug6I
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Samsung Electronics shares skid as record shareholder returns disappoint
Shares of Samsung Electronics fell over 8% in early trade on Monday ‌after the company’s record $79 billion shareholder-return plan disappointed investors who had expected a larger share of Samsung’s AI-fueled cash windfalls and greater clarity on share buybacks.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/08/2026
US cancels joint marine drills with South Korea over Iran war-related force constraints reut.rs/4xop0ok
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US cancels joint marine drills with South Korea over Iran war-related force constraints
The United States cancelled a joint amphibious landing drill scheduled for next month with South Korea, ​Seoul's Marine Corps said on Monday, after Washington ‌cited constraints on the availability of U.S. forces due to the war in Iran.
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you guys liked the spreadsheet people discourse you'll love the SQL
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We could have avoided this whole debate and liberated thousands of spreadsheet people from the drudgery of Microsoft Excel if we had taught people how to code so they could enjoy pandas instead
Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech, here offered in an ironic fashion
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: #HongKong Tiananmen vigil activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan have been convicted of incitement to subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law. In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/08/21/b... Photo: Jennifer Creery/HKFP and Peter Parks/AFP.
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"I've been a stock investor for 30 years but never experienced something like this before," said Dalbo Park, a retiree in his 80s who ​lost 35% of his investment in the rout. "I don't think I will ever invest in the KOSPI again."
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
cc Taiwan
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
During these awful times it’s always great when something amazing like this pops up on the timeline to give you hope for better days ahead
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Rocky Swift @rockyswift.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Japan bond yields near 3% as inflation, fiscal worries mount
Japan's benchmark bond yield is on the brink of hitting 3% for the first time since the mid-1990s, highlighting how inflation, ​rising fiscal concerns and monetary policy expectations are reshaping a ...
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I dunno man if you are suddenly fascinated by trains in the 19th Century can you really describe yourself as "into technology"
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I am begging you all to stop this chaos. The order is Woke 1, Woke 2.0, and woke3. Please respect the styleguide
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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Vietnam: "Let's emulate the economic strategy that made South Korea so dynamic!" South Korea: 👀 www.ft.com/content/35a0...
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Communist Vietnam bets on Korean-style ‘chaebols’ to boost growth
Hanoi prioritises homegrown conglomerates after relying on trade and foreign investment
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 11/08/2026
The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
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Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder
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