EXCLUSIVE: Thuan Dang has joined APA as an agent in the scripted literary department and Lucy Tashman has been promoted to Director of Content Development at the agency. Dang represents writers and directors in feature films, TV, streaming and animation. He becomes the 15th new agent/exec APA has brought in during the past two months. Tashman began her career as an intern at […]

Asian stock markets are trading mostly higher on Tuesday, following the broadly positive cues from global markets overnight, as data showing that U.S. manufacturing activity slowed to its weakest pace in 30 months helped ease concerns about aggressive monetary tightening by the US Fed. The up move was supported by bargain hunting, rising oil prices and falling treasury yields. Asian […]

McDonald’s, which for decades has elbowed its way into the lives of tens of millions of Americans, plans to make Halloween an opportunity to dig in deeper. It will use an old tactic. Management has decided to offer the Halloween Pail this month. It is a container for children to use when they collect candy on Halloween night. The pails […]

Lakewood, New Jersey-based Cuisine Innovations Unlimited, LLC has recalled its Earth Grown Vegan brand frozen Traditional Falafel and Garlic & Herb Falafel following a multistate E. coli outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. The products were distributed & sold exclusively by Aldi, Batavia, Illinois. The recall was initiated following 20 reported cases of Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli O121:H19 infections […]

The euro area manufacturing sector contracted at the fastest pace since mid-2020 due to further slides in output and new orders, final data from S&P Global showed on Monday. The final manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 48.4 in September from 49.6 in the previous month. The score was slightly below the flash estimate of 48.5. The index slumped to […]

EV stocks in general have been in trouble for the last several months. Even Tesla has had an uncharacteristic falloff. Smaller companies, which include Rivian, face existential moments. It just recalled almost every car it has sold since it began production. No electric car company is in more trouble than Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. Despite raising a modest sum […]

Asian stock markets are trading mostly lower on Monday, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street on Friday, reflecting lingering concerns about a recession and the global economic outlook amid aggressive interest rate hikes by central banks around the world. Asian markets closed mostly lower on Friday. Adding to the negative sentiment, a reading on inflation said to be […]

Driven by a rise in sales during the current year, German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz said on Thursday that the company is expecting a growth in sales of around 8-10 per cent in the next few years. This comes at a time when the company is ready to surpass the previous highest sales of 15,538 vehicles (2018) in 2022. During the […]

Disney’s 100th Anniversary will kick off at Disneyland on January 27, 2023, the company announced today. “The heart of the celebration at Disneyland Resort,” the parks division statement read in part, with special limited-time offerings taking place throughout the resort all year long. Dubbed the Disney100 celebration, some of the special offerings include the following: Platinum-infused décor throughout the resort, new […]