Asian stocks subdued, focus on new round of Sino-U.S. talks
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares barely budged on Tuesday with investors looking to a new round of Sino-U.S. trade talks…
U.S. dollar, yields firm; oil comes off two-month highs
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar gained for a third straight session against a basket of currencies and U.S.…
Asia shares recover as China stocks rise after weak data
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares edged up on Thursday as stimulus expectations and a rise in the yuan helped Chinese…
Asian shares perk up ahead of key policy events in China, U.S.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian share markets ticked up on Monday as investors cautiously looked to whether key policy events in…
Tencent Music debut strikes a chord with investors
(Reuters) – Shares of China-based music streaming company Tencent Music Entertainment TME.N rose more than 13 percent in their U.S.…
Stock selloff snowballs as investors price in slowing world economy
LONDON (Reuters) – Losses on global stocks snowballed on Monday, with Wall Street set to follow Europe and Asia lower…
Huawei CFO seeks bail, cites health fears behind bars: court documents
Meng Wanzhou, Executive Board Director of the Chinese technology giant Huawei, attends a session of the VTB Capital Investment Forum…
Huawei CFO bail hearing to resume in Canada as Beijing steps up pressure
TORONTO/BEIJING (Reuters) – A top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies is due back in a Canadian court on…
Exclusive: U.S. probe of China’s Huawei includes bank fraud accusations – sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer was arrested as part of a U.S.…
China orders halt to gene-editing after outcry over babies
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Chinese government on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to research activities for people involved in the…
Wall Street futures, Asia stocks jump back on GOP’s house prospects
TOKYO (Reuters) – Wall Street stock futures and Asian shares erased losses to eke out small gains on Wednesday as…
UBS warns staff over China travel after banker held in Beijing: source
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Swiss bank UBS Group AG. (UBSG.S) has asked its China wealth management staff to reconsider their…
Asia shares ride Wall Street bounce, China muted
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian equities got some welcome relief on Wednesday after upbeat U.S. earnings reports drove a rebound on…
Typhoon Mangkhut heads toward Philippines, China
Typhoon Mangkhut barrelled closer to the northeastern Philippines on Friday, where a massive evacuation was underway. After the Philippines the…
Exclusive: HNA held talks with Ant, others as it weighs options for IT unit Pactera – sources
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s HNA Group is exploring an outright sale and other options for its IT outsourcing unit…
Walmart partners with MGM to boost video-on-demand service Vudu
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walmart Inc (WMT.N) said on Monday it would partner with U.S. movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer…
Typhoon Mangkhut barrels into south China after killing dozens in Philippines
Typhoon Mangkhut hit Hong Kong, Guangdong and Hainan on Sunday after lashing the northern Philippines with strong winds and heavy…
Hong Kong’s most expensive rail project faces cost overruns
Hong Kong’s most expensive MTR project, the Shatin to Central link, is likely to face cost overruns over its US$12.5…
The night a Chinese billionaire was accused of rape in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) – With the Chinese billionaire Richard Liu at her Minneapolis area apartment, a 21-year-old University of Minnesota…
AstraZeneca plots China robot offensive to counter price cuts
WUXI, China/LONDON (Reuters) – With smart cancer diagnostics, one-stop-shop diabetes kits and AI systems to improve ambulance pick-ups for patients…
China says battling swine fever is ‘complex and challenging’
BEIJING (Reuters) – Battling the spread of African swine fever in China is “very complex and challenging”, the country’s agriculture…
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Can Hong Kong afford another brain drain stemming from a growing dissatisfaction over the lack of political freedom and social…
Emerging markets and equities reel as dollar flexes muscles
LONDON (Reuters) – The sell-off in emerging markets gathered pace on Wednesday and global stocks fell for the fourth day…
JD.com’s CEO was arrested on allegation of rape: police
MINNEAPOLIS/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The CEO of Chinese online retail giant JD.com Inc, Richard Liu, was arrested in Minneapolis last week…
Predicting Trump: Chinese turn to fortune tellers to divine trade war
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – As analysts crunch trade data and political commentators dissect official statements for signs of how the Sino-American…
Asia stocks makes modest gains as trade optimism extends Wall Street’s bull run
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks were mostly higher on Thursday, buoyed by a firmer finish on Wall Street, which hit…
There’s more to Hong Kong than meets the eye
In one of the cities with the highest population density in the world, how does Hong Kong chill out? Come…
Asian shares flat as drop in S&P 500 futures weighs
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Asian stocks were flat in early trade on Wednesday after Wall Street ended higher, with the S&P…
Foreign automakers oppose Trump NAFTA plan as U.S-Mexico talks resume
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Foreign-brand automakers with U.S. plants do not support Trump administration rules to raise the amount of local…
Asia stocks capped, dollar droops following Trump comments
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks were capped and the dollar dipped on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump accused China…
Asia shares inch up with yuan, wary on Sino-U.S. talks
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian share markets crept cautiously higher on Monday as investors awaited developments on proposed Sino-U.S. trade talks…
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Chinese internet stock sell-off may shake faith in FANGs
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A steep downturn in heavyweight Chinese internet stocks and recent weakness in half of the so-called…
China finds second African swine fever case at WH Group plant
BEIJING (Reuters) – China found its second case of African swine fever (ASF) on Thursday at a slaughterhouse owned by…
Stocks, emerging currencies, lick wounds as lira bounces for second day
LONDON (Reuters) – Action from Turkey’s central bank pushed the lira higher for a second day on Wednesday, helping European…
Asia shares, euro under water as Turkish lira sinks
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asia share markets skidded and the euro hit one-year lows on Monday as a renewed rout in…
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Asian shares rise on trade war relief as investors await data
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Asian shares rose on Wednesday, following gains on Wall Street, as a report of attempts to renew…
Shares get China stimulus boost, bonds show the strain
LONDON (Reuters) – World shares climbed for a third day running on Tuesday, as China promised fiscal action to support…
Asian stocks choppy, sentiment shaken by sliding yuan
TOKYO (Reuters) – Most Asian stock markets retreated on Friday after China allowed its yuan currency to slide further, stoking…
Trade war puts the hoof into U.S. pig part exports to China
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Before the U.S.-China trade war, American pig processors exported nine out of every 10 pigs’ feet and…
Japan shares jump as yen bows to strong dollar
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares followed Wall Street higher on Wednesday as a bullish outlook from the head of the…
Asia stocks sag after oil slides, dollar steady before Fed speech
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks sagged on Tuesday, weighed by a sharp decline in crude oil prices as Libyan ports…
U.S. lifts ban on suppliers selling to China’s ZTE
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday lifted a ban on U.S. companies selling goods to ZTE Corp,…
Beijing urges U.S. firms in China to lobby Washington over trade war
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) – China on Thursday said foreign firms operating in China would suffer in a trade war, urging U.S.…
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Samsung’s second quarter profit seen flagging as smartphone innovation dries up
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is expected to post its smallest profit growth in more than a…
Asian shares, yuan on shaky ground on specter of Sino-U.S. trade war
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks were on shaky ground on Wednesday while the Chinese yuan stood near 11-month lows as…
China’s Xiaomi prices HK IPO at bottom of range, raises $4.72 billion: sources
HONG KONG (Reuters/IFR) – China’s Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK) priced its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) at the bottom of…
Automakers warn U.S. tariffs will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, hike prices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two major auto trade groups on Wednesday warned the Trump administration that imposing up to 25 percent…
Global stocks slide on intensifying trade row, dollar wobbles
TOKYO (Reuters) – World stocks extended a sell-off on Tuesday as an escalating trade fight between the United States and…
Fox spirits and demons: China’s tech giants splash out in cartoon arms race
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – Growing up in the Chinese port city of Dalian in the 1990s, Zhang Hongchang spent hours…
Xiaomi puts indefinite delay on CDRs in blow to China’s plans for tech listings
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp (IPO-XMGP.HK) said on Saturday there is no timeframe for a mainland…
Asian shares edge ahead, oil subdued before OPEC meeting
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares crept ahead on Thursday as a lull in the Sino-U.S. trade tussle and talk of…
World shares snap five-day losing streak on China policy easing
LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks steadied near three-week lows on Wednesday and Chinese markets bounced after recent sharp falls as…
Markets Right Now: Stocks fall on fresh worries over trade
The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4:00 p.m. The Dow Jones industrial average is closing with…
ZTE, U.S. suppliers shares tank after Senate puts Trump reprieve in doubt
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Shares of ZTE Corp and its American business partners took a hit on Tuesday after the…
Exclusive: China’s Xiaomi cuts valuation after pulling mainland offering: sources
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters/IFR) – Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has lowered its likely valuation to between $55 billion and $70 billion…
Asian shares fall as Sino-U.S. trade spat intensifies
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares retreated on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump cranked up trade tensions with China by…