The U.S. dollar hovered just below recent peaks on Tuesday, as investors turned to this week's Federal Reserve meeting for clues on the policy outlook, while cryptocurrencies pulled back sharply after an attempt to break out of a monthslong range.
Tencent's WeChat has temporarily suspended registration of new users as it undergoes a technical upgrade "to align with relevant laws and regulations", China's dominant instant messaging platform said on Tuesday.
Dutch telecom KPN said on Tuesday it intends to buy back shares worth 200 million euros (US$235 million) as it posted second-quarter earnings above estimates and maintained guidance.
Starbucks is exiting its joint venture in South Korea, the US coffee giant's fifth-largest market, selling a part of its stake to local partner E-Mart and the rest to Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, GIC. E-Mart, one of the largest retailers in South Korea that currently owns half of the joint ......
REUTERS: Chipmaking equipment supplier BE Semiconductor (BESI) beat its second-quarter revenue targets on Tuesday, driven by higher-than-anticipated shipments from its order backlog. Soaring demand from major chip manufacturers like TSMC and Intel, which are expanding production capacity to ...
REUTERS -French software company Dassault Systemes on Tuesday hiked its 2021 forecasts on the back of strong momentum across its activities, including in its industrial systems and life sciences businesses. The group, which makes 3D design software and technologies for manufacturing ...
SINGAPORE: About 960 cases of kickback offences were investigated by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) a year between 2016 and 2020, said Senior Minister of State for Manpower Koh Poh Koon on Tuesday (Jul 27). “Of these, about two-thirds are complaints lodged by migrant workers, one-third are ...
REUTERS: French software company Dassault Systemes on Tuesday hiked its 2021 forecasts on the back of strong momentum in its cloud and software licensing revenue. The company, which makes 3D design software and tech solutions for manufacturing, infrastructure, and healthcare groups, now ...
Profits at China's industrial firms rose 20per cent in June from a year earlier to 791.8 billion yuan (US$122.27 billion), official data showed on Tuesday.
Indonesia's worsening COVID-19 crisis is raising pressure on the government to lift spending and widen the budget deficit, even as rating agencies warn any loosening of the country's hard-won fiscal discipline could bode ill for its credit ratings.
