• Yahoo Finance Singapore

    Singapore electricity and gas tariffs to decrease in Q2 2024, water prices up from 1 April

    How much are the electricity and gas tariff decreases in Singapore? And how much will water prices go up? Find out.

  • Reuters

    White House issues new federal standards to collect data on race

    The White House on Thursday announced new standards for collecting federal data on race and ethnicity, a decision that will touch organizations that receive federal funding, determine how congressional districts are drawn and whether equal employment policies can be enforced. The standards from the White House's Office of Management & Budget (OMB)- revised for the first time since 1997- requires federal agencies to use one combined question for race and ethnicity, encourages respondents to select multiple options on how they identify and adds Middle Eastern or North African as a new identification category.

  • Reuters

    US fourth-quarter growth revised up; weekly jobless claims fall

    The U.S. economy grew faster than previously estimated in the fourth quarter, lifted by strong consumer spending and business investment in nonresidential structures like factories. Gross domestic product increased at a 3.4% annualized rate last quarter, revised up from the previously reported 3.2% pace, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis said in its third estimate of fourth-quarter GDP. Economists polled by Reuters had expected GDP growth would be unrevised.