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Japan's wholesale prices jumped 3.6per cent in April from a year earlier, central bank data showed on Monday, a sign rising energy and commodities costs were weighing on corporate margins.

PARIS: The European Union must focus on its current €750 billion (US$910 billion) pandemic recovery package before envisaging further stimulus, the EU's antitrust chief told Les Echos, adding that talk of a second plan was a "bit bizarre". In an interview to be published on Monday (May 17) in...

PROPERTY investment firm GLP this month sold the world's largest US-dollar green subordinated perpetual offering.

HONG KONG: JD Logistics will price its shares between HK$39.36 (about US$5) and HK$43.36 each as the company aims to raise up to US$3.4 billion, according to the company's filings. The logistics offshoot of JD.com Inc will sell 609.1 million shares in the deal, which is 10 per cent...

HONG KONG: Australian expatriate investment bankers are returning home in large numbers, lured by the launch of new boutique advisory firms, a sharp pick up in deal-making and the safety of a country relatively unscathed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Signs of a strong economic rebound from a brief ...

BRUSSELS: The European Union needs to dramatically toughen weak CO2 targets for commercial vans to spur a shift to electric models and phase out fossil-fuel sales entirely by 2035, European campaign group Transport and Environment (T&E) said on Monday (May 17). T&E said an analysis of van sales in...

PARIS: A subsidiary of French insurance giant Axa has been hit by a ransomware attack affecting operations in several Asian countries, the company said on Sunday (May 16), confirming a Financial Times report. "Asia Assistance was recently the victim of a targeted ransomware attack which impacted ...

Many workplaces still see cyber-unsafe behaviour as broadly acceptable and the pressure to do something unsafe when on deadline can be profound but there are ways to get around common tricky situations, say cybersecurity academics.

Retail investors are tempted to put some money into the next Facebook or Google, in the hope of striking it rich but St James’s Place Wealth Management’s Martin Hennecke advises to stay away if you can’t handle the risks.

ROBO-ADVISER StashAway has launched a group term life insurance policy for Singapore residents, underwritten by Prudential Singapore.