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India may build new coal plants due to low cost despite climate change

Coal's contribution to electricity generation in India fell for the second straight year in 2020

Chip shortage casts shadow on China's auto industry recovery: Details here

Auto industry executives are rattled by a global shortage of semiconductors which is hitting production in China

China launches first class-action lawsuit in war against corporate fraud

The mechanism was introduced last year to bolster investor confidence

AstraZeneca could have Covid-19 vaccine against variant by 2021 end

Walters blamed challenges - including delivery delays for the AstraZeneca shot in the European Union - on the "complex process" of producing a vaccine

Wall Street Week Ahead: Tech retakes market lead as investors eye yields

One of the key drivers of the move in tech has been the Treasury market

US stops short of branding Vietnam, Switzerland currency manipulators

The Treasury report also said the COVID-19 crisis was likely to continue to affect current account positions over the next year

White House's secret weapon on US infrastructure: Small businesses

White House officials have held a spate of private briefings with small business leaders to explain Biden's more than $2 trillion-dollar plan

S&P 500, Dow hit record highs on earnings boost from big banks

Nine of the 11 S&P indexes were trading higher

Bitcoin tumbles after Turkey bans cryptocurrency payments citing risks

The decision could stall Turkey's crypto market

Google misled consumers over data collection: Australian watchdog

A setting to control web and application activity, when turned on, also enabled Google to collect, store and use the data and was turned on by default on the devices

Gold prices hit seven-week peak as retreating US yields boost appeal

Benchmark U.S. bond yields hovered near a one-month low hit in the previous session, while the dollar edged lower against its rivals.

Morgan Stanley profit blows past estimates, flags $900-mn loss on Archegos

Net revenue jumped 61% to $15.72 billion.

Scandal-hit Toshiba bid to test Japan's corporate governance rules

Toshiba has been hit by a succession of accounting and other scandals

China's GDP hits record growth but post-Covid recovery seen losing steam

China's rebound has been led by exports as factories raced to fill overseas orders

Grab considering secondary Singapore listing after US SPAC merger: report

SGX has mainly only seen large IPOs from real estate investment trusts.

World stocks at record high, oil up on strong China, United States data

U.S. stock futures pointed to a slightly lower open

Oil climbs to four-week high on strong China data, demand revival

Brent crude futures rose 30 cents

Gold prices hover near seven-week peak as US bond yields decline

U.S. gold futures eased 0.1% to $1,763.80.

Tencent raises $4.2 billion in its second major bond deal in a year

Asia's most valuable company said in a statement it raised $500 million in a 10-year tranche, $900 million in 20-year debt, $1.75 billion in 30 year and $1 billion in 40-year debt

India shifts from mass vaccine exporter to importer, worrying the world

India breached 200,000 daily infections for the first time on Thursday, and is trying to inoculate more of its population using domestically produced shots