Posts by Riah Marton
Get Ahead of Spooky Season: Here Are 15+ Easy Halloween Costumes You Can Buy Right Now – E! Online
The products featured in this article are from brands available in NBCUniversal Checkout. E! makes a commission on purchases. We’ve all been there: It’s the week of Halloween and you still have costume. You’re scrambling, but the online delivery won’t make it in time and Spirit Halloween has been ransacked. You can avoid this all too…
Read MoreBank of Japan’s Tamura calls for raising rates to at least 1%
BANK of Japan board member Naoki Tamura said on Thursday the central bank must raise short-term interest rates to at least around 1 per cent to avoid inflationary risks from materialising. “We must raise interest rates at an appropriate timing, and in several stages,” Tamura said in a speech to business leaders in Okayama, western…
Read More2024 MTV VMAs: Katy Perry Makes Coy Reference to Orlando Bloom Sex Life While Accepting Vanguard Award – E! Online
As for Orlando, the 47-year-old couldn’t but gush over Katy, saying that while the world feel in love with Katy Perry, “I fell in love with her as Katherine Hudson.” He added, “I know her as a mother, as a partner, who brings that same sense of love and joy to our family.” Katy’s Video Vanguard Award is…
Read MoreTaylor Swift Proves She Has No Bad Blood With Katy Perry at the 2024 MTV VMAs – E! Online
Just as she’s never confirmed the identities of any of the love interests she’s assumed to have sung extensively about, nor has Taylor ever expressly name-checked Katy as someone she was feuding with. But in 2014, ahead of the release of 1989, she mentioned a fellow female who, “for years, I was never sure if…
Read More2024 MTV VMAs: Flavor Flav Crowns Jordan Chiles With This Honor After Medal Controversy – E! Online
Jordan Chiles may not have an individual Olympic bronze medal anymore, but she does have a different precious keepsake, thanks to Flavor Flav. “Jordan, I know they tried to take your medal away from you,” the Public Enemy rapper told the gymnast at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards when they took the stage to…
Read MoreGlobal EV sales up 20% in August despite 19-month low in Europe: Rho Motion
GLOBAL sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose by a yearly 20 per cent in August, driven by record high sales in China, and despite a 33 per cent drop in Europe to its weakest month since January 2023, market research firm Rho Motion said on Thursday. Rho Motion expects this year’s sales…
Read MoreUN experts call for global system to trace critical minerals
UN EXPERTS called on Wednesday for the creation of a global system to trace the extraction and production of critical minerals that are needed in the transition away from fossil fuels. The massive effort to develop renewable energy, essential in the fight against climate change, requires minerals and metals such as copper, cadmium, nickel and…
Read MoreDWTS Alum Lindsay Arnold Speaks Out on Secret Lives of Mormon Wives as a Mormon Herself – E! Online
Lindsay Arnold is taking some quicksteps to debunk possible generalizations about members of her religion that may be made as a result of a new reality TV show. The Dancing With the Stars alum, who was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shared her thoughts on the series The Secret Lives of…
Read MoreEurope: Stoxx 600 little changed as focus shifts to ECB
EUROPEAN shares ended flat on Wednesday as gains in technology shares were offset by losses in real estate shares, while investors shifted their focus to the European Central Bank for its rate decision on Thursday. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was little changed on the day. German shares outperformed European peers as Commerzbank surged 16 per cent, after Italy’s UniCredit bought…
Read MoreIBM shares hit record as investors look for stable tech winners
ONE of history’s original big tech firms has been having a quiet renaissance that’s pushed its shares to their first record in more than a decade. International Business Machines (IBM) is up 28 per cent this year, beating tech giants such as Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.com and Alphabet. The outperformance – after years as one of…
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