The United Nations is seeking a new host for this year’s round of climate talks in December after Chile withdrew as raging street protests grip the South American country.
Oil prices rose on Thursday as investors banked on more economic stimulus by China after weak PMI data, partly recovering from losses in the previous session on a surprise build in U.S. crude stocks.
Toshiba Corp said on Thursday it filed a lawsuit against a former employee of a U.S. unit for conspiring with a contractor and defrauding the Japanese industrial conglomerate.
The head of Hong Kong’s central bank called on the public to manage financial risks prudently on Thursday, as the local economy faces its first recession in a decade.
Ford and autoworkers union reach tentative agreement in just three days of discussing economic issues after the GM strike ended. …read more […]
Factory activity in China shrank for the sixth straight month in October and by more than expected, pointing to further pressure on its manufacturers as they grapple with the weakest economic growth in nearly 30 years.
Fugitive financier Jho Low is ready to address issues related to the 1MDB scandal in Malaysia or elsewhere, a spokesman from the Wells Haslem Mayhew Strategic Public Affairs agency who handles press matters on behalf of Low said on Thursday.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said chip sales should pick up next year after it reported on Thursday that third-quarter operating profit more than halved due to low prices of memory chips amid a prolonged industry downturn.
Hard-drive maker Western Digital Corp said on Wednesday its second-quarter profit would come in sharply below analysts’ expectations and that its chief executive officer would retire soon, sending its shares down 10%.
The San Jose-based company expects its second-quarter adjusted profit to come in between 45 cents and 65 cents per share, compared with analysts’ forecasts of 75 cents per share, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. After the closing bell of trading on Wednesday, Western Digital posted a revenue of $4.04 billion and adjusted profit of 34 cents per share for first quarter ended Oct. 4, beating analysts’ expectations of $3.93 billion and 30 cents per share. …read more […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday said it was seeking feedback on whether disclosure rules were discouraging firms from issuing SEC-registered residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) as the Trump administration seeks to overhaul the U.S. housing finance market.
Ford Motor and the United Auto Workers union on Wednesday announced a tentative agreement for a new labor deal, allowing the No. 2 U.S. automaker to avoid a strike like the one that cost its larger rival General Motors about $3 billion.
Factory activity in China shrank for the sixth straight month in October, official data showed on Thursday, pointing to further pressure on its manufacturers as they grapple with the weakest economic growth in nearly 30 years.
Ford Motor and the United Auto Workers union on Wednesday announced a tentative agreement for a new labor deal, allowing the No. 2 U.S. automaker to avoid a strike like the one that cost its larger rival General Motors about $3 billion. The union turned to Ford to negotiate a new four-year agreement after ratifying a contract last week with GM following a 40-day U.S. strike that shut down almost all of GM’s North American operations. “The pattern bargaining strategy has been a very effective approach for UAW and its members to secure economic gains around salary, benefits …read more […]
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday reached a settlement deal with Malaysian financier Jho Low to recover almost $1 billion in funds the fugitive and his family had misappropriated from Malaysian investment fund 1MDB.
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