Profits at China's industrial firms declined 5.3per cent in September from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday.
Louis Vuitton owner LVMH has approached Tiffany & Co with an acquisition offer, people familiar with the matter said on Saturday, at a time when the U.S. luxury jeweler grapples with the impact of tariffs on its exports to China.
WASHINGTON: Facebook said on Saturday (Oct 26) that it had removed an ad which falsely claimed that US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham supported the Green New Deal, demonstrating that it will fact-check ads from political groups but not politicians. The ad, which ran on Friday, was put up as a...
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump will suspend trade preferences for Thailand's seafood industry after it failed to take steps to improve worker rights, dealing a blow to the multi-billion dollar sector. Thailand is the world's third largest seafood exporter but its supplier status has been badly tainted ...
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He had a phone call with U.S. trade officials as both countries confirmed technical consultations on some parts of a trade agreement were basically completed, China's Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Saturday.
Microsoft has won the Pentagon's massive US$10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, selecting the company over competitors including Amazon.com, which had been seen as the favourite.
Wells Fargo has laid off more than 200 bankers in its U.S. lending divisions in recent months, as the bank reacted to business trends and restructured some units, sources familiar with the matter said this week.
WASHINGTON: US and Chinese officials are "close to finalising" some parts of a trade agreement after high-level telephone discussions on Friday (Oct 25), the US Trade Representative's (USTR) office said, adding that deputy-level talks would proceed "continuously". The USTR provided no details on ...
WASHINGTON: Facebook on Friday (Oct 25) began rolling out its dedicated "news tab" with professionally produced content, the latest move by the social network to promote journalism and shed its reputation as a platform for misinformation. The news tab, being tested with some US users, will be ...
Microsoft Corp. has won the Pentagon's massive US$10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, selecting the company over competitors including Amazon.com Inc, which had been seen as the favorite.
