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China's fintech leader worth 50% more than Goldman with $150-bn Valuation

China's biggest fintech company's valuation joins elite club of lenders and insurers

Six takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg's time in the Senate spotlight

While Zuckerberg avoided major blunders, it was clear after his first day of testimony that there's a growing appetite to impose laws that would govern the behavior of Facebook

Govt's social sector spending inadequate by global standards, says RBI

The budget "is confronted with a tight trade-off between the rigors of fiscal consolidation and the demands for stimulating the economy," the RBI said

India's grip on vital Chabahar port loosens as Iran looks towards China

While it's unclear whether China will take up Iran's offer, the involvement of a cash-rich and expansionist Beijing would almost certainly speed up development of the port

Apple, world's most valuable company, seeds few of world's biggest fortunes

CEO Tim Cook has a $600 million fortune, which reflects a pay program that's restrained relative to the company's size and performance

Oil slip for India? Eye on west coast refinery, Saudi aiming for $80 price

Crude oil's rally to $70 a barrel is threatening to clip India's economic wings; while India would like to see the prices at $50 a barrel, Saudi Arabia is said to be aiming for oil near $80

Aramco, Total SA to build a $5-bn petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia

Steam cracker will feed $4 billion specialty-chemical plants

Airbus, Lockheed Martin rush to tap India's $620 billion defence market

Narendra Modi's local manufacturing plan seen as catalyst in defence

US Congress working on legislation for payment to songwriters, producers

Trade organizations for the music business and technology firms are proposing a new system to compensate songwriters

Why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is winning the US Senate hearings

The social-media giant's economic model emerged unscathed despite hours of questions from senators

Uber scandals that drove Travis Kalanick out, not so terrible: Lawyer

Lawyer said his law firm's investigation found only a few people who wanted to come forward to say they suffered harassment at Uber

Zuckerberg's 'move fast and break things' faces scrutiny in Congress

While the company motto was officially retired in 2014, the strategy remained deeply rooted in Facebook's engineering ranks

Robots are now everywhere, except in productivity statistics: Economist

Sectors that stand to benefit from robots, AI, machine learning and other 'hot' technologies are the wholesale sector, retail trade and recreational services

Saudi Arabia signals ambition for $80 oil price to support 2019 Aramco IPO

For the kingdom, the most important thing is to keep Russia supporting the current OPEC and non-OPEC production cuts

Alibaba-backed Xiaopeng Motors aims to raise $1.6 bn to challenge Tesla

The company plans to start pre-sales of its first model, the G3 crossover, by the end of this month

From BMW to Toyota, firms get relief in crosshairs of China, US trade spat

China will "significantly lower car import tariffs" and "sincerely hopes to boost imports," Xi said

Overseas investors are buying Indian bonds even as locals remain wary

Overseas investors kept buying Indian debt even during most of a seven-month rout through February

Is the rise of Bitcoin analogous to spread of an infectious disease?

The Barclays model divides the pool of potential Bitcoin investors into three groups: susceptible, infected and immune

Draghi and his ECB colleagues say they'll go slow paring back stimulus

ECB's Peter Praet and Benoit Coeure also warned that the threat of a global trade war is increasing the risk to growth

US-China trade talks broke down as WH asks Beijing to curb hi-tech support

The dust-up suggests that the trade dispute won't be resolved quickly, despite Trump's optimistic tweets and Xi's conciliatory address to a regional economic forum Tuesday