Posts by Nathan Pine
Temasek-backed Fullerton pares China hedge fund operations, workforce: source
[SINGAPORE] Fullerton Fund Management, backed by Temasek Holdings, has sharply scaled back its China private fund operations after years of struggling to build scale, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The Singapore-based firm has cut its onshore private fund team from nearly 20 people last year to fewer than five and…
Read More‘One Battle After Another’ Tops Sight And Sound’s 2025 Best Films Of The Year List
Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling epic One Battle After Another has topped Sight and Sound Magazine’s 2025 poll of the year’s best films. “F**k yeah! It takes my breath away a bit, honestly,” Anderson said in a written statement of the honor. “I remember reading Sight and Sound, as we all do, from when I was…
Read MoreBreaking Baz: UK Comedy Queen Catherine Tate Discovers Riotous Laughter As The Wicked Fairy In London Palladium Panto ‘Sleeping Beauty’
EXCLUSIVE: British television comedy queen Catherine Tate sashays across the room where rehearsals for Sleeping Beauty, the 10th annual feast of fun (and filth), are taking place. Performances begin at the historic London Palladium on Saturday through January 11. Tate’s doing evil witchy things in her role as Carabosse, the wicked sister of King Julian, played by…
Read MoreGerman factory orders jump on 87% surge in big transport items
Demand increased 1.5% from the previous month, which was revised significantly higher to show a 2% gain [BERLIN] German factory orders surged in October, supporting the prospect that Europe’s biggest economy eked out growth in the final quarter of the year. Demand increased 1.5 per cent from the previous month, which was revised significantly higher…
Read More‘Heated Rivalry’s François Arnaud Unpacks Scott’s “Cautionary” Rom-Com Episode, Jokes It’s “A Different Porn Category”
SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Heated Rivalry episode ‘Hunter’ With Heated Rivalry getting LGBTQ fans hooked on the erotic hockey drama in its first two episodes, François Arnaud‘s Scott Hunter bares his soul (among other things) in is this week’s bottle episode. The actor joked to Deadline that ‘Hunter’, which is now available…
Read MoreBOJ likely to hike rate this month
[TOKYO] Bank of Japan officials are ready to raise interest rates at a policy meeting later this month, provided there’s no major shock to the economy or financial markets in the meantime, according to people familiar with the matter. The central bank will also indicate it will continue to raise rates if its economic outlook…
Read MoreDGA Plans To Meet With Netflix Over “Significant Concerns” Regarding Streamer’s Potential Warner Bros. Discovery Acquisition
The Directors Guild of America says it plans to meet with Netflix to discuss “concerns” regarding the streamer’s potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. After news broke Thursday night that Netflix had won the bidding war for the legacy media company and the two would be entering exclusive talks to secure a deal, a guild…
Read MoreQueen Latifah On Her Upcoming Biopic & ‘The Equalizer’: “I Put A Lot Of Who I Am Into Robyn McCall” – Red Sea Studio
Queen Latifah stepped into Deadline’s studio at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and gave Deadline the low-down on the upcoming project about her life, and playing Robyn McCall in The Equalizer. Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment is a producer on the biopic, which will be one of several about hip-hop’s…
Read MoreIndia central bank cuts key rate, boosts liquidity to support ‘Goldilocks’ economy
[MUMBAI] The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) on Friday (Dec 5) and left the door open for further easing, as it took steps to boost banking-sector liquidity by up to US$16 billion to support a “Goldilocks” economy. The world’s fifth-largest economy is under pressure from…
Read MoreIndia central bank cuts repo rate by 25 basis points, boosts liquidity
[MUMBAI] The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key repo rate by 25 basis points on Friday (Dec 5), in line with a consensus view, as record low retail inflation and a benign outlook for prices provided ample room to further support economic growth. The RBI also decided to conduct open market operations of…
Read MoreChina chipmaker Moore Threads soars 502% after eight billion yuan IPO
The listing comes as optimism over the country’s drive for tech self-sufficiency intensifies, fuelled by trade tensions and fears of US technology curbs MOORE Threads Technology, a leading Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chipmaker, surged in its Shanghai trading debut after raising eight billion yuan (S$1.5 billion) in the year’s second-largest onshore initial public offering (IPO).…
Read MoreChina’s risky shadow banks back in spotlight after Xi’s debt crackdown
Bridging the funding gap has become more urgent as bond issuance by the special financial vehicles has fallen to its lowest level since 2020 [BEIJING] China’s crackdown on borrowing by local governments is forcing state-run entities in even some of the wealthiest provinces to tap costly credit from non-bank lenders, a stopgap that’s building up…
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