Wall Street analysts praised Tesla Inc's move to split its richly valued stock into smaller chunks, saying it had the potential to extend a 200per cent rally in its shares this year by making it easier for retail investors to hold the stock.
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) is offering its cabin crew members the option of early release or retirement, as it seeks to further cut costs and mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. The COVID-19 Voluntary Release Scheme is also open to cabin crew members who are on probation, and...
Brazil is amassing a record debt that has evoked memories of crises past in South America's largest economy, but some economists say rock-bottom interest rates and low foreign debt mean the government can continue to spend its way out of recession.
As the coronavirus pandemic upended the global diamond industry, shuttering mines from Lesotho to Canada and disrupting supply chains, Rajen Patel swapped diamond polishing for peanut farming.
Electric commercial truck maker Nikola Corp of Phoenix, Arizona, tried unsuccessfully to raise US$1 billion in the private markets and only turned to a merger with a so-called blank-check company to go public as a way to raise the needed funds, its chief financial officer said.
TOKYO: Most of the fuel left on a Japanese bulk carrier that has leaked an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil off the Mauritius coast has been pumped off, ship owner Nagashiki Shipping said on Wednesday (Aug 12). Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said on Tuesday that the MV Wakashio...
U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday following a pullback on Wall Street in the previous session, as resilient fuel demand drove up oil prices, while investors remained on edge due to a stalemate over the next coronavirus federal aid bill.
Stock investor Zhu Haifeng halved his once-cherished holdings in Chinese tech giants Tencent and Alibaba after the United States announced on Friday sanctions against some Chinese firms in the latest escalation between the world's two top economies.
Shares of Next Digital Ltd tumbled over 40per cent on Wednesday after soaring more than 1,000per cent in the last two sessions, as the securities watchdog said it was monitoring trading activity in the Hong Kong media group.
Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings Ltd said second-quarter net profit rose 37per cent, beating market estimates, on higher demand for its video games as coronavirus-related lockdowns kept people indoors.
