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Crypto boss eats banana art he bought for $6.2 million
Nov 29, 2024 (AFP)
At one of Hong Kong's priciest hotels, Sun chomped down on a banana in front of dozens of journalists and influencers after giving a speech hailing the work as ...
German Foreign Minister and Nepal PM to visit China next week
Nov 29, 2024 (AFP)
Baerbock's trip follows a meeting in Brazil this month between Xi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz -- their second this year. Those talks saw Xi call for Beiji...
Yen rallies on rate hike bets as equity markets swing
Nov 29, 2024 (AFP)
With Wall Street closed for the Thanksgiving break, there were few catalysts to drive business heading into the weekend and at the end of a rollercoaster month ...
Trade gap focus in first visit to Spain by Iraq PM
Nov 28, 2024 (AFP)
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hosted his Iraqi counterpart in Madrid where they signed memorandums of understanding on "financial cooperation and justice", the S...
Paris clamps down on Airbnb to ease housing crunch
Nov 28, 2024 (AFP)
France's parliament approved a bill this month allowing cities to clamp down on short-term furnished rentals to combat a lack of affordable housing. The French ...
Asian markets mixed after subdued pre-holiday shift on Wall St
Nov 28, 2024 (AFP)
With the United States heading into the Thanksgiving holiday, business in New York was subdued after a flurry of activity since Donald Trump's election at the s...
Trump threatens trade war on Mexico, Canada, China
Nov 27, 2024 (AFP)
Trump made his threat in social media posts, announcing huge import tariffs against neighbors Canada and Mexico and also rival China if they don't stop illegal ...
Asian markets mixed as traders eye fresh trade tensions
Nov 27, 2024 (AFP)
The stuttering performance followed a broadly negative day on Tuesday and came despite another record-breaking lead from Wall Street. While he still has just un...
China slams US 'bullying' over forced labour concerns
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
US officials on Friday added 29 entities to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list, meaning that goods wholly or partially made by these firms will ...
French lawmakers back Macron in rejecting EU-Mercosur deal
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
By a vote of 484 to 70, the lower-house National Assembly approved the government's opposition to the deal "in its current form", in a non-binding vote. "Under ...
Autos, food: What are the risks from Trump's tariff threat?
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
Similarly, further tariff hikes on China could add to consumer prices, as the United States is still reliant on the world's second biggest economy for goods lik...
China ex-bank chief gets suspended death sentence for graft
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
Liu Liange, former chairman of the Bank of China, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting "extremely large" bribes amounting to 121 millio...
Most Asian markets drop, dollar gains as Trump fires tariff warning
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
The former and next president said on his Truth Social account that he would hammer the United States' largest trading partners in response to the illegal drug ...
China warns 'no one will win a trade war' after Trump vows big tariffs
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
"China believes that China-US economic and trade cooperation is mutually beneficial in nature," Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for China's embassy in the United States...
Trump vows big tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
In a series of posts to his Truth Social account, Trump vowed to hit some of the United States' largest trading partners with duties on all goods entering the c...
Equity markets mostly on front foot, bitcoin rally stutters
Nov 25, 2024 (AFP)
The gains came ahead of the release of key US data that could provide a fresh idea about the Federal Reserve's plans for interest rates amid expectations the ne...
EU launches WTO challenge against China's brandy duties
Nov 25, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing's move last month appeared to be a tit-for-tat measure against Brussels after the EU imposed hefty additional import tariffs on Chinese-made electric ve...
Most markets track Wall St gains, bitcoin closes on $100,000
Nov 22, 2024 (AFP)
Rising geopolitical tensions tempered the atmosphere and lifted oil again after Russia hit Ukraine with a new-generation intermediate-range missile and sent a w...
Most Asian markets track Wall St gains, bitcoin closes on $100,000
Nov 22, 2024 (AFP)
Rising geopolitical tensions tempered the atmosphere and kept oil elevated after Russia hit Ukraine with a new-generation intermediate-range missile and sent a ...
US restricts food, metal imports on Uyghur forced labor concerns
Nov 22, 2024 (AFP)
Officials are adding around 30 entities to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list, meaning that goods wholly or partially made by these firms will b...
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