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Young college man hands his resume to potential employer at college job fair. Other people are interviewing in the background. Many college students thrived at virtual career fairs during the pandemic. But with in-person events starting to resume, young professionals may start to feel increased anxiety about standing out at competitive job fairs. Having a game plan can help you ease some of the pressure and make a good impression on employers, who are currently going to extreme lengths to recruit top talent. According to Emily Liou, a career happiness coach and former recruiter, the keys to making the most out of a career fair are preparation, knowing your 'why', and following up. Do your research According to Liou, coming into the career fair with a "game plan" will help ease some of t...

LONDON: The Kremlin on Thursday (May 26) said the West only had itself to blame for a brewing food crisis due to problems getting Ukraine's grain out to world markets, demanding the United States and its allies scrap what it cast as illegal sanctions. Besides the death and devastation sown by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the war and the West's attempt to isolate Russia as punishment have sent the price of grain, cooking oil, fertiliser and energy soaring, hurting global growth. The United Nations, which says a global food crisis is deepening, is trying to broker a deal to unblock Ukraine's grain exports though Western leaders have blamed Russia for holding the world to ransom by blockading Ukrainian ports. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected those accusations and said the West was...

In this article WDAY DHR COP NVDA MRVL Workday co-founders and co-CEOs Aneel Bhusri (left) and Dave Duffield (center) applaud their company's first trade after their IPO at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 12, 2012. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The last week of May put our minds slightly at ease with a relief rally (or rather, a bear market rally). Nonetheless, inflation remained in the back of investors' minds no matter how hard they tried to buy-the-dip and sustain the rally. In the event that harder days are more likely in the guise of a slower economy, rising above immediate concerns and staying invested in the right stocks might actually be a good thing to help tide over near-term waves while solidifying your long-term wealth portfolio. To understand better how stocks are perfo...

JAKARTA : Indonesia is due to resume exports of palm oil on Monday after a ban of more than three weeks, but industry traders and companies were awaiting details on accompanying rules to secure domestic supplies of the edible oil to control cooking oil prices. The Southeast Asian country, the world's biggest palm oil producer, halted exports of palm oil from April 28 in an attempt to bring down soaring local prices of cooking oil, rattling global edible oil markets already struggling with sunflower oil supply shortages due to the war in Ukraine. President Joko Widodo announced the lifting of the ban on exports of crude palm oil and some derivative products last week, expressing confidence that bulk cooking oil prices were heading towards a target level of 14,000 rupiah ($0.9546) per litr...

Oil settled higher on Friday, supported by expectations that OPEC's decision to increase production targets by slightly more than planned will not add that much to global supply which should tighten as China eases COVID restrictions. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies, known as OPEC+, on Thursday agreed to boost output by 648,000 barrels per day (bpd) a month in July and August rather than 432,000 bpd as previously agreed. Brent crude rose $2.11, or 1.8 per cent, to settle at $119.72 a barrel by 1338 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude advanced $2, or 1.7 per cent, to $118.87. Both benchmarks were up by $3 in after hours trading. U.S. crude notched a sixth weekly gain on tight U.S. supply, which has prompted talk of fuel export curbs or a windfall...

On Wednesday, the U.S. women's national soccer team reached a first-of-its-kind deal with the U.S. Soccer Federation that closes the gender wage gap and ensures equal pay with the men's national team. The collective bargaining agreements between U.S. Soccer and the men's and women's national teams are the culmination of a years-long fight for pay parity. "This is a truly historic moment," U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone said in a statement. "These agreements have changed the game forever here in the United States and have the potential to change the game around the world." Under the agreements, which run through 2028, U.S. Soccer will become "the first Federation in the world to equalize FIFA World Cup prize money" awarded to the teams for participating in World Cups, according ...

HONG KONG: Against a backdrop of club closures and continuing COVID-19 restrictions, the Chinese Super League returns on Friday (Jun 3) with the competition struggling for relevance after losing the star power that once had it threaten to disrupt the global game. Long gone are the days when clubs were breaking transfer records to lure leading names, and instead the Chinese Super League is counting the cost of another outfit shuttering its doors just 10 days before the season's start. The decision by the owners of Chongqing Athletic to dissolve the club last week due to mounting debts echoed the move a year earlier by the Suning Group to wind up then-champions Jiangsu FC soon after claiming their first Chinese Super League crown. Chongqing's closure comes ahead of a season where the leag...

NEW YORK: Digital money, a curiosity just a few years ago, is emerging as an intense concern among central banks with the potential to erode the power of monetary policy, and even in the best of worlds likely to make control of interest rates more difficult, according to new Federal Reserve and other research. A New York Fed symposium this week laid out the puzzle central bankers face in dealing with emerging digital technologies that range from new ways to process payments to new asset categories like cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. There are benefits seen in the underlying technology, including better transaction speed, lower cost, and easier accessibility to banking services, and even with recent crashes and volatility it is assumed it will keep advancing. Ignore it, in other words,...

SINGAPORE: There are provisions in place to support national athletes who are training to take part in competitions while they are enlisted in National Service, said the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY). "The priority as they undergo full-time NS is their NS duties," said MCCY on Thursday (May 26) in response to queries. "Within that, MINDEF has existing provisions such as leave and disruption, to support the training and preparation of our national athletes, taking into account the specific circumstances of the athlete, his sport, and subject to the SAF’s operational needs." The ministry added that together with SportSG, it will continue to work with the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) "on an ongoing basis" to support Singapore's national athletes. MCCY's response follows ...

HONG KONG/LONDON :TerraUSD, the so-called stablecoin which plunged in price this week, will be backed by reserves in future, its co-founder said in a tweet on Wednesday, in an attempt to steady the cryptocurrency by adjusting its complex pegging mechanism. Stablecoins are digital tokens pegged to the value of traditional assets, such as the U.S. dollar. They are popular in times of turmoil in crypto markets and are a common medium of exchange, often used by traders to move funds around and speculate on other cryptocurrencies. TerraUSD, also known as 'UST', slipped below its 1:1 peg to the dollar this week, roiling cryptocurrency markets already under pressure alongside tumbling stock markets. It dropped further to as low as 30 cents on Wednesday, before recovering to around 60 cents, acc...