Tired of that never-ending stream of work emails? We should not have allowed technology to doom us to endless distraction, says the Financial Times’ Pilita Clark.
The head of a US Senate panel reviewing two catastrophic Boeing 737 MAX crashes told Reuters ahead of hearings this week that the plane would not return to US skies until "99.9 per cent of the American public" and policymakers are convinced it is safe.
INVESTORS are increasingly buying into funds and instruments that track opportunities based on long-term megatrends, in the hope of achieving better returns from paying heed to big structural themes that may also hedge against risks of a world that is increasingly becoming more insular.
SINGAPORE is taking an open-minded but thoughtful approach to regulating financial technology, economist Beatrice Weder di Mauro has told The Business Times.
Lazard said in a statement on Sunday it had appointed Louis Girodolle as chief executive officer of Lazard Investment Banking in France.
Brazil is determined to lure airlines to operate domestic flights in Latin America's largest aviation market, and is taking meetings with at least three carriers, a senior government official told Reuters.
Brazil is working to bring the Boeing 737 MAX airplane back to service "by the end of the year," Civil Aviation Secretary Ronei Glanzmann said on Sunday.
Profits at China's industrial firms declined 5.3per cent in September from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday.
UBS wants Iqbal Khan, co-head of its wealth management business, to drop his criminal complaint over a spying scandal that emerged after he left cross-town rival Credit Suisse , the SonntagsZeitung newspaper reported on Sunday.
China should ease regulations so that foreign financial institutions can obtain licenses and raise deposits more easily in the country, a senior executive from HSBC said on Sunday.