Exxon Mobil Corp reported a 5.2per cent drop in fourth-quarter profit on Friday, hit by weaker margins in its refining and chemical business.
Pending U.S. securities rules that would limit shareholder proposals have divided passive and active U.S. fund firms as some take a harder line on issues like climate change.
Oil prices will remain supported near current levels this year as persistent geo-political risks and OPEC-led output curbs help offset growing supply from other producers, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
Nearly 140 governments have agreed to launch a rewrite of decades-old cross-border tax rules for the digital age over the coming months, the Organization for Economic Cooperation said on Friday after talks this week in Paris.
SINGAPORE: Private home sales are expected to remain resilient in 2020, Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (REDAS) President Chia Ngiang Hong said on Friday (Jan 31). Speaking at the the association's spring festival lunch, he said there could be more than 30 projects with 9,000 new ...
The coronavirus is threatening to disrupt large parts of China's manufacturing machine and its global supply chains as the spread of infection and strict public health measures force companies and workers to remain idle.
U.S. authorities could face difficulties fining Danske Bank over its involvement in suspected money-laundering in Estonia, according to a report by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation into EssilorLuxottica's 7.2-billion-euro bid for Dutch opticians group GrandVision , people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
World share markets fought to regain their footing on Friday as investors clutched at hopes that China could contain the coronavirus, even as headlines spoke of more cases and deaths, travel bans, evacuations and factory shutdowns.
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it will take down misinformation about China's fast-spreading coronavirus in a rare departure from its approach to health content, after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency.
