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BERLIN] Lufthansa on Thursday reported better second-quarter results than expected, boosted by low oil prices and currency ...
HONG KONG/LONDON] Standard Chartered (StanChart) reported on Thursday (Jul 31) a higher-than-expected 26 per cent jump in ...
FROM toys to sneakers and diapers, consumer goods are the focus of a range of company strategies to blunt the impact of US ...
KUALA LUMPUR] The US tariff rate on Malaysian goods will be announced on Friday (Aug 1), Malaysia’s prime minister said on ...
HONG KONG] A money manager for some of Hong Kong’s richest families is building a hedge fund team to allocate money away from private equity after its clients asked for more liquid investments. Read ...
TOKYO] The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Thursday and offered a cautiously optimistic view on the economic ...
HONG KONG] Asian markets mostly fell on Thursday while the dollar held most of its gains as traders weighed a cautious Federal Reserve with strong tech earnings and Donald Trump’s tariffs on key ...
LONDON] Hit Netflix series Wednesday expands the Addams Family world as it returns to screens nearly three years after the ...
BANGKOK] Thailand’s richest person, Sarath Ratanavadi, expects US$10 billion investments in hydropower projects in ...
BEIJING] China‘s manufacturing activity shrank for a fourth straight month in July, an official survey showed on Thursday, ...
TOKYO] Japan’s factory output unexpectedly rose in June, as manufacturers showed resilience even as US tariffs weigh on the nation’s exports. Read more at The Business Times.
CHATGPT-MAKER OpenAI roughly doubled its revenue in the first seven months of the year, reaching US$12 billion in annualised ...