Trump says US gas prices may remain high through November midterm election
US President Donald Trump said on April 12 that the price of oil and gasoline may remain high through November’s midterm elections, a rare acknowledgement of the potential political fallout from his decision to attack Iran six weeks ago, Reuters reported.
“It could be, or the same, or maybe a little bit higher, but it should be around the same,” Mr Trump, who is in Miami for the weekend, told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo when asked whether the cost of oil and gas would be lower by the fall.
The average price for regular gas at US service stations has exceeded US$4 (S$5) per gallon for most of April, according to data from GasBuddy. Mr Trump’s comments on April 12 came after weeks of asserting that the spike in prices is a short-term phenomenon, though his top advisers are cognisant of the war’s economic impacts, officials have said.
Manchester City blow Chelsea away 3-0 to move closer to Arsenal
Manchester City reignited the Premier League title race on April 12, scoring three goals in 17 second-half minutes to crush Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and move within six points of leaders Arsenal, Reuters reported.
The visitors, who meet Arsenal at home next weekend in a mouthwatering clash, turned on the style after a pedestrian first half in which Chelsea arguably looked the stronger side.
Pep Guardiola's men began the second half with renewed conviction and simply skipped through the Londoners' shaky defences.
Tottenham mired in relegation zone after defeat at Sunderland
Thirty minutes before kick-off Roberto De Zerbi wandered on to the pitch with his black padded gilet zipped high to the neck in the face of a chill Wearside wind. By the final whistle that stiff breeze had dropped a little but so, too, had the morale of Tottenham and their new manager, Reuters reported.
In cementing the visitors’ position in the bottom three with six games to go, Nordi Mukiele’s second half winner ensured Régis Le Bris’s Sunderland rose to 10th. De Zerbi’s unusually subdued body language suggested he was shivering inside.
Those Tottenham officials who patronised their promoted Stadium of Light counterparts with talk of a one season top-tier stay at preseason Premier League meetings must wonder how they got things so horribly wrong.
PM Shah discloses financial assets
Prime Minister Balendra Shah has disclosed a bank balance of Rs 14.6m in his public asset statement released Sunday by the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.
He stated that his income is largely generated from social media, where he has 4m Facebook followers, 1.2m YouTube subscribers, and 500,000 Instagram followers.
The statement also reveals that his wife, Sabina Kafle, owns 190 tolas of jewelry (gold, silver, and diamonds), categorized as ancestral property.
