Asian stocks rose on Thursday on hopes for a thaw in U.S.-China trade frictions and expectations that the European Central Bank will kick off another wave of monetary easing by global central banks.
China is considering tapping into its strategic frozen reserves of meat, its top economic planner said Wednesday, as it grapples with a swine fever outbreak that has ripped through its massive pig-farming industry.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States has agreed to delay increasing tariffs on US$250 billion worth of Chinese imports from Oct 1 to Oct. 15 "as a gesture of good will."
Harley-Davidson Inc has laid off 40 employees at its general merchandise division in Milwaukee as part of a restructuring exercise, according to a company official with knowledge of the matter.
Department stores are collapsing. The Internet is part of the problem, but so too is the hollowing out of the middle class, say two Swinburne University of Technology experts.
AT&T Inc said on Wednesday weakness in its wireless equipment unit could weigh on its third-quarter revenue.
BROOKLYN: A lawyer for a Chinese professor accused of obtaining technology from a Silicon Valley startup to benefit China's Huawei on Wednesday (Sep 11) told a federal judge that he would like to know why the case is in her Brooklyn courtroom. Professor Bo Mao was arrested last...
Oracle Corp said on Wednesday Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd would be taking a leave of absence due to health-related reasons, and the business software maker posted first-quarter revenue that missed Wall Street expectations.
U.S. President Donald Trump's push for low interest rates reached a new pitch on Wednesday, when he demanded the Federal Reserve take the extraordinary step of sending them below zero.
U.S. authorities investigating Alphabet Inc's Google for anticompetitive behaviour have recently begun probing the company's US$116 billion-a-year advertising business.
