Twitter on Wednesday barred users from posting misleading information about the new coronavirus, including denials of expert guidance and encouragement of fake treatments, tightening its normally lax rules around speech.
TOKYO: Stocks in Asia bounced back on Thursday (Mar 19) after the European Central Bank launched an emergency plan to buy bonds in what one analyst said could be a "game changer" for the coronavirus-wracked eurozone. Japan's Nikkei-225 led the gains, opening more than two percent higher as the...
Another day of massive swings across asset prices was marked by scant liquidity as investors dashed for cash while systematic strategies triggered automated selling amid rising volatility, market participants said.
PRUDENTIAL plc on Thursday said its Thai subsidiary, Prudential Life Assurance (Thailand), has entered into a strategic bancassurance partnership with TMB Bank.
Brazil has upheld proposals by Boeing Co to buy the jetmaking arm of Embraer , but plunging markets have raised urgent questions over the fate of the US$4.2 billion deal as aviation reels from the coronavirus crisis.
Qantas Airways Ltd said on Thursday it will halt all international flights from late March until at least the end of May and is putting two-thirds of its workforce on leave after Australia told citizens not to travel overseas due to the coronavirus.
SINGAPORE: With an increasing number of countries enacting travel restrictions to curb the COVID-19 outbreak, Singapore is left “extremely vulnerable” due to its status as an aviation hub, say analysts. Smaller carriers may also end up going belly-up during this period, due to a drop in demand ...
SYDNEY: Australia's biggest airline Qantas said on Thursday (Mar 18) it will halt all international flights later this month, after the island nation's other main carrier Virgin shut its overseas services due to the coronavirus pandemic. Qantas said all of its international flights would be ...
Harley-Davidson Inc faces a battle with one of its investors after Impala Asset Management on Wednesday on Wednesday said it will try to install two directors at America's oldest and best-known motorcycle maker.
Airline industry turmoil deepened on Thursday as Qantas Airways Ltd told most of its 30,000 employees to take leave and India prepared a rescue package of up to US$1.6 billion to aid carriers battered by coronavirus, government sources said.
