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Mark Zuckerberg joins centibillionaire club after launch of TikTok rival

The 36-year-old joins fellow tech titans Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as the only people in the world who currently have centibillionaire status, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Berkshire Hathaway shows signs of appetite ahead of earnings report

Buffett's conglomerate began putting more of its $137 billion cash pile to work after a period of relative silence during the start of the pandemic

India's consumer confidence plummets to record low in July: RBI survey

Sentiment had been steadily falling since the government imposed the world's biggest pandemic lockdown in late March and collapsed further in July to reach 53.8, the RBI said

TikTok's billionaire founder in dilemma as tug-of-war over app rages on

Zhang, whose ByteDance Ltd owns TikTok, was on the verge of building the world's third truly global advertising and social-media force

New York, LA witness boom in plastic surgery due to coronavirus pandemic

As lockdowns took hold over much of America earlier this year, non-essential services were among the first to shutter-among them, cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists

Turkey's perilous game with markets may now have reached a breaking point

Authorities have resisted raising interest rates despite pressure on the currency to weaken further, prompting an outflow of foreign capital and leaving the economy vulnerable as its currency buckles

The trouble with climate scenarios is that everyone has their own

Scenario analysis can be a great way of structuring one's thinking about the future, which is essential to understanding climate change

Post Covid-19 lockdowns, demand for vehicle loans is rising, says financier

The lockdown, which impacted the movement of vehicles across states, and subdued economic growth in the last few years impacted sales of commercial vehicles

Chartered planes, costly tickets: How world is beating flight restrictions

The flight paralysis underscores how deep and lasting the pandemic's damage is proving to be

US regulators consider rules that may trigger Chinese firms' delisting

The issue of Chinese stock listings has attracted the attention of President Donald Trump, who has ratcheted up his attacks on China over the coronavirus pandemic

Hold your rice bowl firmly, fill it with Chinese grain: China to its people

China should always be self-sufficient in rice and wheat, as well as other cereals, while maintaining an "appropriate volume" of imports, the agriculture minister said

Hope force: India's army of 600,000 virus-hunting women goes on strike

ASHA workers act as a stopgap in the country's porous health care system, delivering assistance from maternal health to immunization in its vast rural hinterland

Maggi noodles to chyawanprash: What India has been spending on in pandemic

Consumers around the world are showing an increased interest in safeguarding their health and boosting their immunity

HDFC Bank's delayed reports to draw in Indian regulator

The local unit of Experian Plc told RBI in July that HDFC Bank has been late in providing details of its loans

Gold demand jumps as lockdowns ease, imports rebound by 25% in July

Overseas purchases rose to 25.5 tonnes in July from 20.4 tonnes a year earlier and were almost double the amount shipped in the previous month

A shattered Beirut leaves Lebanese asking if they have a future

Lebanon is enduring its deepest political and financial crisis since the 15-year civil war ended in 1990

Twitter, Facebook block Trump video, citing Covid-19 misinformation

The Trump re-election campaign's Twitter account, @TeamTrump, was briefly banned from sending new tweets after it posted a clip of an interview Trump did Wednesday with Fox News

Goldman Sachs comes up with Tinder for mergers in a social-distanced world

After all, this weekend's flurry of deal activity shows that not even the coronavirus can stifle M&A demand for long

Donald Trump tests China's red line on Taiwan using Beijing's playbook

While Trump soon backpedaled, displaying an inconsistency that has become a hallmark of his presidency, it showed China that relations with the U.S. were changing quickly

US TikTok ban: Why Facebook, Google should be worried by Trump's moves

The decision opens a Pandora's Box that digital platforms might one day wish had been kept closed