THIS past week, nine in 10 Singaporeans would have received a one-off payment of S$600 from the government, to help them cope with the economic fallout of Covid-19. Meanwhile, shareholders of HSBC Holdings - including myself - did not receive the company's fourth interim dividend for 2019...
SHANGHAI: Chinese electronics retailer Gome Retail Holding on Sunday (Apr 19) said it would raise US$200 million through a convertible bond issue that will be entirely taken up by e-commerce platform Pinduoduo. The deal comes as the COVID-19 pandemic, which first emerged in China last December ...
REUTERS: Facebook Inc is planning to launch a gaming mobile app on Monday focused mainly on live game streaming in a bid to take on Amazon.com Inc's Twitch, Google's YouTube and Microsoft Corp's Mixer services, the New York Times reported on Sunday (Apr 19). Facebook Gaming was originally ......
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers are very close to an agreement on approving extra money to help small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic and could seal a deal as early as Sunday (Apr 19), congressional and Trump administration officials said. "I think we're very close to a deal today and I'm...
REUTERS: Wynn Resorts Chief Executive Officer Matt Maddox on Sunday (Apr 19) called on the Nevada governor to begin to reopen the Las Vegas Strip in mid- to late May with extensive safety measures in place, assuming the state is in line with certain benchmarks around the spread of...
REUTERS: The U.S. stock market has rebounded swiftly despite a raft of terrible economic news, driven by a massive boost from the Federal Reserve, hopes of a successful reopening of the economy and possible coronavirus treatments, as well as investors' fear-of-missing-out. But not everyone is ...
