SINGAPORE — Shares in Asia-Pacific fell in Friday trade following overnight losses on Wall Street as a private survey showed Chinese manufacturing activity shrank in March. Chinese tech stocks in Hong Kong saw sizable losses, with Alibaba falling 3.93% and Baidu plunging 6.01%. JD.com shed 3.25% while Meituan slipped 1.03%. The Hang Seng Tech index […]
SINGAPORE — Stocks across Asia-Pacific rose, following a tumble in oil prices overnight. Bitcoin meanwhile surged past a key level, and the yen continued to weaken. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index jumped 0.45%, as casino and tech stocks rose. Among the biggest gainers was JD Health, which soared nearly 16%, after it said Monday it […]
A robot car of the General Motors subsidiary Cruise is on a test drive. Andrej Sokolov | picture alliance | Getty Images DETROIT – General Motors is acquiring SoftBank’s equity ownership stake in its majority-owned Cruise autonomous vehicle unit for $2.1 billion, the automaker announced Friday afternoon. SoftBank Vision Fund 1 first acquired a minority […]
SINGAPORE — Shares in Asia-Pacific rose in Thursday trade as the Chinese markets continue to extend gains from a rebound, while the US Federal Reserve announced its first rate hike in more than three years. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index led gains among the region’s major markets, surging 7.04% to close at 21,501.23 and erasing […]
SINGAPORE — Shares in Asia-Pacific rose in Thursday trade as the Chinese markets continue to extend gains from a rebound, while the US Federal Reserve announced its first rate hike in more than three years. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index led gains among the region’s major markets, surging 6.36% in afternoon trade and erasing heavy […]
Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Blockchain start-up ConsenSys has raised $450 million in a new round of funding that more than doubles its valuation to $7 billion. The cash injection was led by ParaFi Capital, ConsenSys said Tuesday, with Microsoft, Japan’s SoftBank and Singapore’s Temasek also joining as new investors in […]
0