Oil prices plunge by a third after Saudi Arabia launches output war
Oil prices lost as much as a third of their value on Monday in their biggest daily rout since the 1991 Gulf War after Saudi Arabia...
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Apple sells fewer than 500,000 smartphones in China in February amid coronavirus
Apple sold fewer than half a million smartphones in China in February, government data showed on Monday, as the coronavirus outbreak halved demand for all such...
'No question' of India's Yes Bank merging with SBI: administrator
India's Yes Bank will not be merged with State Bank of India , which is set to infuse funds in the beleaguered lender, the newly appointed...
Coronavirus shock, oil crash sinks world stocks
Global stocks plunged on Monday and prices for crude oil tumbled as much as 33% after Saudi Arabia launched a price war with Russia, sending investors...
Struggling Nissan's China vehicle sales drop 80% in February
Nissan Motor Co's vehicle sales in China, its biggest market, dropped 80% in February as coronavirus concerns sapped demand, in another blow to the carmaker which...
Robots step in as cheap labor dries up in Eastern Europe
Istvan Simon's factory in western Hungary churns out more than a million plastic parts a day but on a busy morning in one of its large...
Saudi Aramco drops 10% after kingdom triggers oil price fall
Saudi Aramco shares fell 10% on Monday after Saudi Arabia slashed its official selling prices for crude and set out plans for a dramatic increase in...
Exclusive: Japan to boost special financing for coronavirus-hit firms to $16 billion, document shows
Japan will boost its special financing for small and mid-size firms hit by the coronavirus to 1.6 trillion yen ($15.6 billion), according to a government document...
CP Group's $10 billion Tesco deal to test mettle of Thailand's new antitrust watchdog
CP Group's $10 billion deal to buy Tesco PLC's 2,000 Thai retail outlets marks the end of a three-way tycoon tussle - and the beginning of...
Dashboard of Japanese stocks with a stake in Olympics' success
Japanese stocks banking on the success of the Olympics this year are taking a hit as the rapid spread of coronavirus is threatening cancellation of the...
Business picks up pace in China, but global virus spread may slow recovery
China's business and travel activities are steadily recovering after being disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, but rapidly rising infections globally will pose a challenge to the...
Indonesia readying measures to stabilize financial markets - finance minister
Indonesia Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said on Tuesday that authorities are prepared to use all measures they implemented during the 2008 global financial crisis to...
Samsung Display asks Vietnam not to quarantine 700 engineers from virus-hit South Korea
Samsung Display, a supplier for Samsung Electronics and Apple, has asked Vietnam to exempt 700 engineers from coronavirus-hit South Korea from a mandatory quarantine, saying they...
Barclays cuts 2020 oil price outlook on price war, virus impact
Barclays on Tuesday slashed its oil price forecasts for 2020, citing OPEC's failure to convince its allies including Russia to cut production further, which led to...
IKEA tests selling through third party for the first time, on Tmall in China
IKEA on Tuesday started selling its products on Alibaba's Chinese e-commerce platform Tmall, the first time the world's biggest furniture retailer has sold through a third...