Dollar firms after hot retail sales, yen languishes; China data awaitedThe dollar stood just off its highest since early November against a handful of peer currencies on Tuesday, raising intervention worries as...
16 Apr, 2024, 08.09 AM IST
Dollar sideways, yen under watch ahead of key CPI releaseThe main market focus on Wednesday is U.S. consumer price inflation for March, which traders have been eagerly awaiting for hints on the Fe...
10 Apr, 2024, 08.03 AM IST
Hezbollah says wider Mideast war possible if Gaza assault continuesHassan Nasrallah, in his first speech since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7, also threatened the U.S., Israel's main ally, hinting h...
03 Nov, 2023, 10.19 PM IST
Chinese AI firm Fourth Paradigm leads Hong Kong IPO surge to raise $280 millionThree cornerstone investors, headed by New China Capital Management, have subscribed for about $96.8 million worth of stock, which equates ...
18 Sep, 2023, 08.16 AM IST
Oil prices up on tighter supply, China PMI in focusPrices are on the rise this week, with U.S. government data showing tighter-than-expected crude supplies and a military coup in Gabon, an O...
31 Aug, 2023, 07.42 AM IST
Canberra: US commissions first Navy warship in foreign portThe Independence-class littoral combat ship - named after a Royal Australian Navy cruiser that was sunk while supporting the U.S. Marine la...
22 Jul, 2023, 10.30 AM IST
Microsoft in talks to extend deal contract with ActivisionMicrosoft Corp is in talks about an extension of its acquisition contract with video game maker Activision Blizzard, which is set to expire...
18 Jul, 2023, 08.29 AM IST
China lashes back at NATO criticism, warns it will protect its rightsIn a strongly worded communique issued midway into a two-day summit in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Tuesday, NATO said the People's...
12 Jul, 2023, 11.57 AM IST
Asia in wary mood for US inflation, earnings testsThe jump in developed world yields caused ripples in currency markets, particularly in carry trades where investors borrow yen at super-low...
10 Jul, 2023, 07.40 AM IST
Microsoft threatens to restrict data from rival AI search tools: reportThe maker of the Windows operating system had said in February it was revamping its Bing search engine and Edge Web browser with artificial...
27 Mar, 2023, 08.26 AM IST
Taiwan warns of China's 'repeated provocations', China tells US not to cross red lineChina staged war games near Taiwan in August to protest the Taipei visit of then U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Taiwan President Tsai...
07 Mar, 2023, 10.03 AM IST
China's Huawei aims to reach driverless car technology in 2025"Our team's goal is to reach true driverless passenger cars in 2025," Wang Jun, senior executive at Huawei's smart vehicle unit, told an in...
11 Jun, 2021, 10.02 AM IST
Advanced nuclear reactors no safer than conventional nuclear plants, says science groupUnlike conventional reactors that are cooled with water, advanced reactors are cooled with other materials like molten salt, and are genera...
18 Mar, 2021, 11.13 AM IST
Disney to lay off about 28,000 theme parks unit employees due to coronavirus' impactDisney shut its theme parks worldwide when the novel coronavirus began spreading this year. All but Disneyland - nicknamed the Happiest Pla...
30 Sep, 2020, 08.30 AM IST
Tim Sweeney, Jeff Bezos, Lei Jun: The world's biggest billionaire winners, losers of 2018Singaporean billionaires fared the best in dollar terms, gaining $2.5 billion.
31 Dec, 2018, 01.06 PM IST
Here are the world's biggest billionaire winners, losers of 2018While Coates had a good year, market turmoil pushed many wealthy people into the red.
31 Dec, 2018, 12.42 PM IST
Samsung Electronics CEO Kwon Oh-hyun to step down from managementKwon was not stepping down immediately, and would serve out his term as Samsung Electronics' chairman of the board until March 2018, the co...
14 Oct, 2017, 01.06 AM IST