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Chinese fintech raises $2.4 bn ahead of US listing
Oct 30, 2020 (AFP)
The listing comes less than a week before Chinese fintech titan Ant Group is expected to begin trading in Hong Kong and Shanghai following a world record IPO, t...
Asian stocks fall again after lockdowns spark Wall St, Europe rout
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
With sentiment already dampened by US lawmakers' failure to pass a new stimulus and election uncertainty, the news out of Paris was the last thing investors wan...
Sony first-half net profit doubles, forecast revised up
Oct 28, 2020 (AFP)
The results beat analyst expectations and came as the Japanese tech giant gears up to launch its much-anticipated PlayStation 5 console next month, setting up a...
Pompeo slams 'predator' China as US seeks Asian influence
Oct 28, 2020 (AFP)
Sri Lanka and the Maldives, both strategically located on key Indian Ocean trade routes, have borrowed heavily from Beijing in recent years, worrying Washington...
Asian markets extend losses as virus surges in US, Europe
Oct 28, 2020 (AFP)
With US lawmakers unlikely to agree any new rescue package before Tuesday's election, analysts said the new wave of virus infections and lingering uncertainty o...
Brexit casts shadow over video game's dystopian London
Oct 28, 2020 (AFP)
A cyberpunk faction is battling to liberate the city from a privatised police force, and players can recruit everyday Londoners to the resistance, taking advant...
US appeals WTO ruling faulting Trump's China tariffs
Oct 26, 2020 (AFP)
The United States announced its decision to appeal during a meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body on Monday, a WTO official said. The DSB had ruled on Se...
Big week for Big Tech as earnings, hearings loom
Oct 25, 2020 (AFP)
With backlash against Silicon Valley intensifying, the companies will seek to reassure investors while at the same time fend off regulators and activists who cl...
US claims China meeting trade deal targets
Oct 23, 2020 (AFP)
Washington and Beijing engaged in a months-long trade war starting in 2018 until the deal reached in January marking a partial truce, which obligated Beijing to...
Asian markets mostly up but held back by stimulus uncertainty
Oct 23, 2020 (AFP)
Equities have swung back and forth over the past week as the will-they-won't-they saga of the stimulus discussions keeps traders on their toes, though observers...
Goldman Sachs fined US$350 million in Hong Kong over 1MDB
Oct 22, 2020 (AFP)
Goldman Sachs Asia -- the Hong Kong-based compliance and control hub of the company -- showed "serious lapses and deficiencies in its management supervisory, ri...
Trump's trade war does little good for US industry
Oct 22, 2020 (AFP)
But in slapping tariffs on appliances and components imported from China in response to Whirlpool's pleas, the Republican incumbent ultimately hurt American con...
L'Oreal, Kering boosted by pick-up in Chinese demand
Oct 22, 2020 (AFP)
Cosmetics giant L'Oreal said its three months to September sales were down only 2.0 percent at 7.04 billion euros and on a directly comparable basis actually sh...
Asian markets lifted by stimulus optimism, vaccine hopes
Oct 21, 2020 (AFP)
After months of stuttering talks -- and with a deadline approaching -- Democrats and the White House said they were closing the gap on their proposals, with Hou...
China's super rich got $1.5 trillion richer during pandemic: report
Oct 20, 2020 (AFP)
An extra 257 people also joined the billionaires club in the world's number-two economy by August, following two years of shrinking membership, according to the...
China economy grows 4.9% in Q3, extending virus recovery
Oct 19, 2020 (AFP)
But the world's second-largest economy grew slightly below expectations in the July-September period, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data showed, which war...
China's economy to pick up pace in Q3: AFP poll
Oct 17, 2020 (AFP)
Growth in July-September is expected to come in at 5.2 percent when official data is released Monday, bringing the world's second-largest economy closer to last...
The rise of 'zoom towns' in the rural west
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
Now, many gateway communities are facing an entirely new problem: a flood of remote workers fleeing big cities to ride out the pandemic, perhaps permanently. Li...
Asian markets mixed as traders weigh lockdowns, stimulus
Oct 16, 2020 (AFP)
Traders were also keeping tabs on developments in Washington as lawmakers struggle to find agreement on a new stimulus for the beleaguered US economy, with a di...
Cotton latest Australian product to be 'targeted' by China
Oct 16, 2020 (AFP)
After measures aimed at the coal, wine, beef and barley sectors -- industry officials said it "had become clear" that "China has recently been discouraging thei...
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