Exchange Fund reports record earnings in 2025

Exchange Fund reports record earnings in 2025

The Exchange Fund posted its best-ever annual gain since the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) began releasing the data in 2003, as solid stock market returns boosted the city’s financial war chest used to defend the local currency. The Exchange Fund’s full-year earnings for 2025 jumped 51 per...

AI that talks to itself learns faster and smarter

AI may learn better when it’s allowed to talk to itself. Researchers showed that internal “mumbling,” combined with short-term memory, helps AI adapt to new tasks, switch goals, and handle complex challenges more easily. This approach boosts learning efficiency while using far less training da...

France’s Lescure: Let Markets Do Their Job

French Finance Minister Roland Lescure shrugged off concerns about the yen and said it’s better to let the markets do their job when it comes to foreign exchange currencies. Lescure also urged counterparts to refrain from ‘unilateral measures’ after he chaired a virtual meeting of G-7 finance ...

I Stopped Following the News

Article URL: https://mertbulan.com/2026/01/28/why-i-stopped-following-the-news/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46792580 Points: 18 # Comments: 2

On EV targets, Europe should take a page from China’s playbook

On EV targets, Europe should take a page from China’s playbook

In the global shift towards carbon neutral mobility, a striking role reversal is taking shape. China, often seen as a top-down planner, has emerged as a pragmatic, market-responsive architect of new energy vehicle (NEV) policy. Europe, a champion of climate ambition, is seemingly executing a retreat...

CPH:DOX to Open With Pieter-Jan De Pue’s ‘Mariinka’

CPH:DOX to Open With Pieter-Jan De Pue’s ‘Mariinka’

The documentary “Mariinka,” directed by Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue, has been selected as the opening film of the 23rd edition of CPH:DOX, also known as the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival, taking place March 11-22 in Copenhagen. The film will celebrate its world premiere at t...