Asian stocks and Wall Street futures fell on Wednesday, as growing worries that U.S.-China trade talks are stalling and concern about intensifying unrest in Hong Kong hurt demand for risky assets.
HONG KONG: Chinese online retail titan Alibaba has been given the go-ahead to list shares in Hong Kong, reports said Wednesday (Nov 13), in what could be the city's biggest IPO in almost a decade. Approval for the sale will also give the city's financial authorities a huge boost...
SAO PAULO: Serving airlines that will operate flights lasting 14 hours or longer is a "key consideration" for Boeing Co's global growth strategy over the next 20 years, an executive said on Tuesday (Nov 12). Those flights, sometimes called ultra long-haul, have grabbed headlines in recent weeks as ......
SINGAPORE: By 2022, people living in Singapore will be able to report municipal issues via a chatbot that asks for details in real time and automatically identifies the correct government agency in charge. This will be made possible by artificial intelligence (AI), which is also set to power a ......
Major automakers think U.S. President Donald Trump will again this week push back a self-imposed deadline on whether to put up to 25per cent tariffs on national security grounds on imported cars and parts from the European Union and Japan amid an ongoing trade war with China, five auto...
Hackers demanded about US$5 million in bitcoin from Mexico's Pemex, they told Reuters on Tuesday, saying the state oil firm missed a special discount by not paying immediately after a cyberattack that fouled up the company's systems.
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer XPeng, backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd , said on Wednesday it has raised US$400 million from investors including Xiaomi Corp to fund its growth.
A U.S. federal regulator has initiated an investigation into a cloud computing deal between Alphabet Inc's Google and Ascension Health which would give Google access to detailed health information of millions of patients, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Shares of Nissan Motor slid more than 4per cent in early trade on Wednesday, a day after the Japanese automaker reported a 70per cent plunge in quarterly profit and slashed its full-year forecast to an 11-year low.
Some U.S. airlines are willing to pick up their 737 MAX jets from Boeing Co as soon as December if the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approves delivery of the grounded planes before new pilot training is agreed, three people with knowledge of the matter said.
