Glencore shares plunged the most in nearly four months on Friday after news overnight that U.S. regulators were investigating whether the miner broke some rules through "corrupt practices".
The world's biggest advertising company WPP reported an 8.5 percent slump in first-quarter underlying sales in North America, its biggest market, due to client losses that held the overall group back.
SINGAPORE: The citizen unemployment rate in Singapore rose slightly in the first quarter of this year, according to preliminary figures released by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Friday (Apr 26). The jobless rate for citizens stood at 3.2 per cent at March 2019, compared with 3.1 per cent in...
BEIJING: China's Belt and Road projects need to be transparent and fiscally sustainable, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday (Apr 26) in apparent acknowledgement of growing concerns about debt linked to his global infrastructure initiative. There will also be "zero tolerance" for corruption ...
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s resale public housing market remained in the doldrums in the first quarter of this year, with prices slipping further and the number of homes exchanging hands down 14.2 per cent. Resale prices of flats fell 0.3 per cent in the three months ending March, the Housing and...
Asian shares got off to a subdued start on Friday, while the dollar held near two-year highs against the euro on speculation that data later in the day will show the U.S. economy outperforming the rest of the developed world.
The Galaxy Fold was just a blunder in timing, says China commentator Tom McGregor.
“We want to be underfunded,” Go-Jek’s co-founder Nadiem Makarim said.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Thursday she is investigating Facebook Inc’s unauthorized collection of up to 1.5 million Facebook users' email contact databases, the latest issue involving the privacy of the company's users.
NEW YORK: A bruising earnings report from industrial giant 3M dragged the Dow lower on Thursday (Apr 25) but strong results from Microsoft and Facebook boosted the Nasdaq. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 134.97 points (0.51 per cent) to close the day at 26,462.08. The broad-based S&P 500 ...
