Asian stocks climbed to their highest in six weeks on Friday, as signs of progress in U.S.-China trade talks and aggressive stimulus from the European Central Bank helped to calm fears of a global economic slowdown.
Japan Post Bank Co Ltd on Friday said it improperly sold investment trust products to elderly customers in about 19,500 cases, the latest instance of misconduct at the state-backed postal and financial group ahead of a planned share sale.
World shares climbed to a six-week high alongside benchmark government bond yields on Friday, as markets cheered signs of progress in U.S.-China trade talks and another powerful slug of stimulus from the European Central Bank.
WeWork owner The We Company said on Friday it plans to list its stock on the Nasdaq and announced changes to its corporate governance, including curbs in the voting power of founder and CEO Adam Neumann, ahead of the roadshow for its stock market launch.
The U.S. government is paying Texas cotton farmer J. Walt Hagood $145 an acre for losses related to U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policies. But Minnesota soybean farmer Betsy Jensen will get just $35 an acre.
Large pickup trucks that tow most of the profits in to Ford Motor Co and General Motors Co are holdovers from another century - with heavy ladder frames and big internal combustion engines in the front driving the wheels in the back.
London Stock Exchange has rejected Hong Kong Exchange's $39 billion takeover offer, opting to stick with its planned purchase of data and analytics group Refinitiv.
Italy's new economy minister said on Friday that the Milan bourse, which is part of the London Stock Exchange Group , is a strategic asset because it controls domestic government bond trading platform MTS.
U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday as new signs of progress in trade relations between the United States and China comforted markets, which have been rankled by a prolonged stand off between the world's two largest economies.
WeWork owner The We Company said on Friday it has curbed the voting power of founder and CEO Adam Neumann, as part of changes to its corporate governance aimed at boosting demand for its planned initial public offering.
Police in India's capital New Delhi are probing a case of alleged tax evasion involving Anheuser-Busch InBev , according to a police officer and a document seen by Reuters, a setback for the brewer already battling a three-year city ban.
Goldman Sachs believes Apple faces a "material negative impact" on earnings for the accounting method it will use for an Apple TV+ trial.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is moving his office, more than half of his staff and himself to Florida early next year, people familiar with the plan.
The London Stock Exchange emphatically rejected the Hong Kong bourse's $39 billion takeover offer on Friday, opting to stick with its planned purchase of data and analytics group Refinitiv.
Netflix's stock is lagging the broader market because of increased competition in the streaming space, but Piper Jaffray says to buy the dip.