Asia markets rose modestly on Tuesday (Jul 30), with investors doubtful of any major breakthroughs in the latest round of US-China trade talks getting underway in Shanghai.
The global telecoms industry on Tuesday demanded access to the high-capacity spectrum it says it needs to support data-intensive 5G services, accusing the space lobby of hogging frequencies in a way that could stunt the technology.
Japanese gaming company Nintendo Co Ltd on Tuesday reported a 10per cent decline in quarterly profit, far wide of market expectations, as a rise in costs dulled stronger sales of its hybrid home-portable Switch console.
French farming minister Didier Guillaume said on Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to tax French wines was "completely moronic".
China's Huawei Technologies said on Tuesday revenue in the first half of the year grew 23.2per cent - faster than a year ago - despite an intense U.S. campaign against it that ultimately became a trade ban from mid-May.
TOKYO: The Bank of Japan maintained its ultra easy monetary policy on Tuesday (Jull 30) and said it would "not hesitate" to take further measures if needed, as lingering economic uncertainties cloud the global outlook. The move comes with central banks around the world expected to return to rate...
BP reported US$2.8 billion in second-quarter profit on Tuesday, unchanged from a year earlier, held back by lower oil prices.
Germany's Bayer became the latest agricultural supplies company to be affected by flooded farms in the United States and by trade disputes, saying its full-year earnings target has become harder to reach.
German airline Lufthansa on Tuesday posted a decline in second-quarter earnings, hurt by price competition on short-haul routes in Germany and Austria as well as rising fuel costs.
Factory activity in China is expected to have contracted for the third month in a row in July, a Reuters poll showed, underlining the intensifying strains on the world's second-biggest economy from a protracted trade war with the United States.
