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Shares of Nissan Motor slid more than 4per cent in early trade on Wednesday, a day after the Japanese automaker reported a 70per cent plunge in quarterly profit and slashed its full-year forecast to an 11-year low.

Some U.S. airlines are willing to pick up their 737 MAX jets from Boeing Co as soon as December if the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approves delivery of the grounded planes before new pilot training is agreed, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

Airbus SE's Canadian-designed A220 narrowbody jet has the potential to be stretched to carry more passengers but the company has no current plans to do so, a top executive said on Tuesday.

The Chinese government’s top priority should be to arrest the decline in GDP growth, says former President of the China Society of World Economics Yu Yongding.

The Saudi government's oil firm is set to become the world's biggest public company, but investors are already betting against its long-term prospects, says Lancaster University's Mark Shackleton.

Is it time to reflect upon our extreme consumerism and think about what deeper psychological problems might undergird our purchases? The Singapore University of Social Science’s Dr Lau Kong Cheen certainly thinks so.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook are expected to tour facilities in Texas where Apple products are made as soon as next week to showcase companies that keep jobs in America, according to two people familiar with the matter.

<p>FACEBOOK'S embattled digital currency Libra may have faced fierce pushback from the get-go, but its attempt to solve the cross-border payments problem is still cautiously welcomed by some central bankers and private players.</p>

<p>FINANCIAL technology (fintech) firms in Singapore continued to attract the lion's share of global funding among Asean countries, and the Republic remains the preferred base for fintech firms in the region, a new report by United Overseas Bank (UOB), PwC and the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA) has...

<p>THE central bank of France, Banque de France (BDF), will open an Asian office in Singapore early next year, making this its second office abroad after New York, it said in a joint statement with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Tuesday.</p>