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Harris is more popular than Trump among AAPI voters, a new APIA Vote/AAPI Data survey finds

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September 24, 2024

Harris is more popular than Trump among AAPI voters, a new APIA Vote/AAPI Data survey finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is viewed more favorably by Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander registered voters than former President Donald Trump, according to a new poll. AAPI voters are also more likely to believe that she is the candidate who better represents their background and policy views.

The new survey from AAPI Data and APIAVote finds that around 6 in 10 AAPI voters have a very or somewhat favorable opinion of Harris, while about one-third have a somewhat or very unfavorable view. In comparison, 3 in 10 AAPI voters have a positive view of Trump and around two-thirds view him negatively.

That’s an increase in favorability for Harris since October 2023, when an AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll found that about half of AAPI adults had a somewhat or very favorable view of her. Opinions of Trump among this group have remained stable.

Harris is both Black and South Asian American, and has worked to rally AAPI voters in swing states like Georgia where their numbers are growing. But while the poll indicates that AAPI voters are much more likely to see their own cultural identity reflected in her than in Trump — about half of AAPI voters say Harris better represents their background and culture, while only about 1 in 10 say this about Trump — it’s not clear how much this is influencing their perspectives on the candidates.

Only about 3 in 10 AAPI voters say that Harris’ Asian Indian identity is extremely or very important to them, although some AAPI Americans may be more connected to her background than others. About 7 in 10 Asian Indian adults see Harris as the candidate who better represents their background and culture, which is higher than AAPI adults overall.

Ping Hackl, a 27-year-old Chinese American independent in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is planning to vote for Harris, but not because of the Democratic candidate’s race or gender.

“I don’t really care. She can be anybody,” said Hackl.

Hackl says she worries about the preservation of democracy and divisiveness that could lead to political violence. Thus, she feels Trump “is very dangerous to the country.”

In fact, the poll indicates that Harris’ gender may be more salient to AAPI voters than her racial background. While the Harris campaign has avoided emphasizing that she could be the first female president, about half of AAPI women voters say her identity as a woman is extremely or very important to them.

AAPI women are also more likely than AAPI men to say their own background as Asian or Asian American is at least “very” important to how they think of themselves, and they’re also more likely to say this about their identity as a person of color. And younger AAPI voters, between the ages of 18 and 34, are especially likely to care about Harris’ identity as a woman.

“We’ve seen so much organizing from young people as well as AAPI women who are really leading the different ethnic specific affinity groups like the South Asians for women, South Asians for Harris, Korean Americans for Harris, Chinese Americans for Harris,” said Christine Chen, executive director of APIAVote.

And the survey suggests that AAPI voters may be hearing more from Democratic organizers. About 4 in 10 AAPI voters said they have been contacted by the Democratic Party “a great deal” or “some” in the last year, while about 3 in 10 said the same about the Republican Party.

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Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance have also recently echoed old stereotypes about Asian Americans and food by amplifying false rumors that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating pets, and the poll found that the issue of racism is broadly important for this group. About 7 in 10 AAPI voters say they “could not ever” vote for a candidate who does not share their view on racism or discrimination, making it a bigger “dealbreaker” issue than the economy.

Not all AAPI voters have a negative view of Trump, though. Jihua Ma, a 45-year-old naturalized citizen from China who lives in Boston, leans Republican and voted for Trump in 2020. Ma feels Trump is still the most effective leader.

“I recognize that he’s mean, and he sometimes posts mean pictures,” Ma said. “I’m electing someone to really run this country, not someone to be a friend, a nice person.”

Ma wants someone who will get inflation and the border under control, and he’s unsatisfied with Harris’ proposals on those issues. “I don’t see her policy has a solid platform,” Ma said, adding that he couldn’t think of any accomplishments Harris has made as vice president or as a senator from California.

And it’s still possible that Trump could make inroads with AAPI voters, although the gap in popularity between the candidates leaves a lot of ground to make up. “An issue where the Republican Party could chip away AAPI support is on the economy and on crime,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder and executive director of AAPI Data. “And I think this is where, you know, Harris has tried to blunt some of those critiques by offering some proposals.”

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Tang reported from Phoenix.

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Global futures reopen after exchange operator CME suffers multi-hour disruption

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November 28, 2025

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Global futures reopen after exchange operator CME suffers multi-hour disruption

SINGAPORE/LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Global futures markets were disrupted for several hours on Friday after CME Group, the world’s largest exchange operator, suffered one of its longest outages in years, halting trading across stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies.

By 1335 GMT, trading in foreign exchange, stock and bond futures , , as well as other products had resumed, after having been knocked out for over 11 hours, according to LSEG data.

CME blamed the outage on a cooling failure at data centres run by CyrusOne, which said its Chicago-area facility had affected services for customers including CME (CME.O), opens new tab.

The disruption stopped trading in major currency pairs on CME’s EBS platform, as well as benchmark futures for West Texas Intermediate crude , Nasdaq 100 , Nikkei , palm oil and gold , according to LSEG data.

‘A BLACK EYE’

Trading volumes have been thinned out this week by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and with dealers looking to close positions for the end of the month, the outage posed a risk of spurring volatility, market participants said.

“It’s a black eye to the CME and probably an overdue reminder of the importance of market structure and how interconnected all these are,” Ben Laidler, head of equity strategy at Bradesco BBI, said.

“We complacently take for granted much of the timing is frankly not great. It’s month end, a lot of things get rebalanced.”

Still, the timing of Friday’s outage, during a shortened U.S. equity trading session with thinner volumes, helped limit its market impact.

“If there was to be a glitch day, today’s probably a good day to have it,” Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey, said.

Futures are a mainstay of financial markets and are used by dealers, speculators and businesses wishing to hedge or hold positions in a wide range of underlying assets. Without these and other instruments, brokers were left flying blind and many were reluctant to trade contracts with no live prices for hours on end.

“Beyond the immediate risk of traders being unable to close positions – and the potential costs that follow – the incident raises broader concerns about reliability,” said Axel Rudolph, senior technical analyst at trading platform IG.

A few European brokerages said earlier in the day they had been unable to offer trading in some products on certain futures contracts.

“My anticipation is that life goes on but everybody will have yet another look at their data centre arrangements and invest more in ensuring reliable supply because the importance of data center uptime is higher and higher,” Mikhail Zverev, Portfolio Manager at Amati Global Investors in London.

Regulators are tracking the situation, with both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission confirming they are aware of the issue and conducting ongoing surveillance.

BIGGEST EXCHANGE OPERATOR

CME is the biggest exchange operator by market value and says it offers the widest range of benchmark products, spanning rates, equities, metals, energy, cryptocurrencies and agriculture.

Average daily derivatives volume was 26.3 million contracts in October, CME said earlier this month.

The CME outage on Friday comes more than a decade after the operator had to shut electronic trade for some agricultural contracts in April 2014 due to technical problems, which at the time sent traders back onto the floor.

More recently in 2024 outages at LSEG and Switzerland’s exchange operator briefly interrupted markets.

CME’s own shares were up 0.4% in premarket trading.

Reporting by Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Laura Matthews in New York, Chris Prentice in Washington, Ankur Banerjee, Tom Westbrook, Rae Wee and Florence Tan in Singapore, Amanda Cooper, Lucy Raitano, Vidya Ranganathan and Alun John in London; Toby Sterling in Amsterdam and Pranav Kashyap in Bangalore; Editing by Alison Williams, Elaine Hardcastle and Alistair Bell

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Ukrainian official Yermak resigns as corruption probe encircles Zelenskyy

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November 28, 2025

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Ukrainian official Yermak resigns as corruption probe encircles Zelenskyy

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that head of the office of the president of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, had written a letter of resignation.

“I am grateful to Andriy for always presenting the Ukrainian position in the negotiation track exactly as it should be. It has always been a patriotic position,” Zelenskyy noted, according to a translation of his comments in a video.

ZELENSKYY’S TOP AIDE ANDRIY YERMAK FACES CRITICISM AND SOME PRAISE AS WAR WITH RUSSIA DRAGS ON

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak talks to the press at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

“But I want there to be no rumors and speculation. As for the new head of the office, tomorrow I will hold consultations with those who can head this institution,” the foreign leader noted.

Yermak’s home had been raided by anti-corruption investigators.

MOMENTUM BUILDS IN UKRAINE PEACE PUSH, BUT EXPERTS FEAR PUTIN WON’T BUDGE

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy participates in a briefing at the Office of the President following a staff meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Nov. 7, 2025. (Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

“Today, NABU and SAPO are indeed conducting procedural actions at my home. The investigators have no obstacles. They were given full access to the apartment, my lawyers are on site, interacting with law enforcement officers. From my side, I have full cooperation,” Yermak noted the Ukrainian-language post on Friday.

‘GOLDEN TOILET’ SCANDAL: ZELENSKYY FACES DEEPEST CRISIS YET AS ALLIES ACCUSED IN $100M WARTIME SCHEME

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President Donald Trump in Washington D.C., on Aug. 19, 2025. ( Ukrainian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump’s administration has been aiming to help broker peace between Russia and Ukraine.

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Which EU countries have the biggest gender investment gap?

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November 28, 2025

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Which EU countries have the biggest gender investment gap?

Only about one in five tech companies across Europe created between 2020 and 2025 included at least one woman founder, according to the European Commission’s The Gender Investment Gap report.

Even when adjusting for this disparity, companies with female founders also received less investment than firms with male founders.

The highest levels of gender diversity were found in Latvia, at 27%, Italy, at 25.9 %, and Portugal, at 25.2%. These rates represent the proportion of companies with at least one female founder.

In contrast, countries such as the Czech Republic (9%) and Hungary (14.4%) remain well below the European average (19.3%).

Equal participation by women entrepreneurs could increase EU GDP by approximately €600 billion, with countries like Poland seeing growth of 1.6% and the Netherlands up to 5.5% by 2040, according to the 2025 Frontier Economics study.

The gender investment gap refers to systematic disparities between women and men in accessing venture capital and participating in investment decision-making.

Among European small and medium-sized enterprises applying for bank loans, female-owned firms report loan-approval rates about five percentage points lower than male-owned firms. That’s even after controlling for age, size, and sector, according to the European Investment Bank.

Gender disparities also extend to capital ownership and investment behaviour, as data shows women are investing less in retail assets.

Female retail investors currently control about €5.7 trillion in Europe, a figure projected to rise to €9.8 trillion by 2030. If women invested on a parity basis with men, Europe could mobilise an additional €2 to €3 trillion in private investable assets.

“These findings point to an EU-wide economic shortfall well into the hundreds of billions of euros annually – capital that could otherwise be fuelling innovation, employment, green – and digital transitions,” the EC report stated.

What is behind this gender gap?

The gender investment gap has been put down to differences in risk appetite between men and women, as well as societal expectations and financial education.

Historically, entrepreneurship and venture finance have been male-coded domains associated with risk-taking, assertiveness, and individualism.

Decision-making bodies in venture capital and private equity remain male-dominated, reinforcing existing investment patterns.

Societal expectations around women’s caregiving roles and work-life balance continue to influence their access to entrepreneurial networks and capital.

According to the European Commission’s report, even in societies perceived as egalitarian, such as Nordic countries, the assumption that gender equality has already been achieved “can itself act as a barrier – masking ongoing structural biases”.

Across Europe, women also face a “double exclusion” of gender and geography.

European venture capital is mainly based in hubs in London, Paris, Berlin, and Stockholm, which leaves founders in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe structurally disadvantaged.