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Shoppers walking around Pitt Street Mall on June 07, 2022 in Sydney, Australia.Brendon Thorne | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesShares in the Asia-Pacific rose Wednesday as sentiment overnight improved over the Fed potentially turning less aggressive. Australia’s annual consumer price index reached the highest since December 1990.In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.34% ahead of the report before trading almost flat. The Australian dollar climbed to near $0.6400 as investors digest inflation data.The Nikkei 225 in Japan rose 0.87% in early trade, and the Topix gained 0.79%. South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.2% and the Kosdaq was 0.3% lower. MSCI’s broadest…

The 62-year-old grandpa who was slugged and shoved onto Bronx subway tracks as part of a possible “knockout game” wept Tuesday while describing his ordeal to The Post — and begged Mayor Eric Adams to do more to combat transit crime. “Everybody’s talking the talk, but nobody’s walking the walk, and it’s getting more and more dangerous for innocent people trying to get to and from where they have to go,” said Ronald Baptiste, an electrician and married grandfather. “I paid $2.75 to the MTA so a guy could bash me in the head and throw me in the middle…

A Texas man who police believe may have spread hundreds of nails on roads in the Dallas area was arrested for allegedly firing a gun at the Toyota Headquarters in Plano on Saturday, police said. Kevin Genter, 45, was arrested Monday and charged with deadly conduct related to the shooting. Officers from the Plano Police Department initially responded to the Toyota Headquarters around 9:15 a.m. on Saturday after witnesses heard gunshots in the parking lot and saw a suspect firing a gun out of his car. Several shell casings were found at the scene.  Security at Toyota believed the same car had…

Surveillance video shows the moment a 70-year-old Brooklyn woman is hit by a stray bullet after leaving a Food Town supermarket pushing her shopping cart full of groceries. The security video captures the elderly victim heading home and being hit by the errant slug in Bedford-Stuyvesant shortly after 2 p.m. Monday. She can be seen slumping over but stays on her feet until a passer-by comes to assist her. “Why can’t we have a safe city?” the wounded woman’s cousin, Laurice Johnson, told The Post on Tuesday. “Don’t pick up guns, especially when you obviously don’t know how to use it.”…

In Hollywood, so-called “multi-hyphenates” tend to take one of a few forms: there are the actor-singers, the actor-dancers, the actor-directors, the director-writers…you get the idea. Yet at the intersection of acting and horology—that is, the art of making watches—is one Aldis Hodge.The 36-year-old actor and producer, who in recent years has fronted projects including Showtime’s City on a Hill and Regina King’s One Night in Miami…, first fell in love with engineering and design in high school, as an intern at an architecture firm. “When I was 13 to 15, I used to draft blueprints for buildings. That was my…

Intel’s Mobileye priced its initial public offering on Tuesday above its target range, valuing the autonomous driving company at almost $17bn in a rare positive development for the US listings market.The company sold 41mn shares for $21 per share, said a person familiar with the situation, having previously outlined a price target of between $18 and $20. It was the first large listing to price above its target range since December, according to data from Dealogic.Intel was said to be hoping for a valuation of as much as $50bn when it first made plans to relist the business last year.…

Rapper Ye’s falling out with corporate partners has cost him his status as a billionaire, according to Forbes. In the last few weeks, Ye — also known as Kanye West — has seen luxury fashion house Balenciaga, Gap and most recently Adidas end business relationship with him for antisemitic comments and wearing a shirt with a slogan linked to the Ku Klux Klan. On Tuesday, Forbes, one of the leading trackers of wealth among the world’s financial elites, declared it had dropped Ye from its list of billionaires. It estimated the Adidas deal accounted for $1.5 billion of his net…

Investors in UK companies can expect to receive an additional £5.7bn of dividends this year because of the pound’s slide against the US dollar.The extra cash underlines how a weaker UK currency benefits many British companies that earn a large share of their income abroad, as well as sterling-based investors whose portfolios have international exposure. The pound hit a record low against the dollar last month following the UK government’s ill-fated plans for extensive and unfunded tax cuts. Even after recovering, it is still down 15 per cent this year. But the pound’s decline will deliver a record boost to…

Gunners given green light to invest in winter windowArsenal are ready to back Mikel Arteta in the January transfer window in order to keep the club’s Premier League title challenge alive. The Sun state that Arteta is keen to add at least two more players to his squad and Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke is willing to hand him around £50 million to spend in the winter. Arteta is looking to add a wide forward and a central midfielder to ease the workload on Bukayo Saka and Granit Xhaka. The club have reportedly added Palmeiras midfielder Danilo to their transfer shortlist,…

Colin Donnell, Patti Murin. Kristina Bumphrey/Shutterstock  A new bundle of joy! Patti Murin is pregnant with her and husband Colin Donnell’s second child. “Oops we did it again ??‍♀️ Baby Girl Donnell, coming April 2024!,” the Broadway actress, 42, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, October 25, sharing a sweet snap of the couple with their 2-year-old daughter, Cecily. Donnell, 40, shared an excited statement of his own on the same day, gushing, “So excited about what’s coming for our family ❤️ @pattimurin.” Us Weekly confirmed in July 2020 that Murin and the Arrow alum welcomed their first child, five months…