Shares were higher in Europe on Monday after a retreat in Asia, where some markets including those in Tokyo and Shanghai were closed for holidays. London was also closed for the May Day holiday. Hong Kong and Seoul declined while Paris and Frankfurt advanced. US futures were higher. Oil prices were mixed and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note was steady at 1.62 per cent. Markets have mostly climbed in recent weeks as investors remain optimistic that the pandemic is slowly and steadily coming to a close, at least in the United States. Germany's DAX climbed 0.6 per cent to 15,226.91 while the CAC 40 in Paris was 0.5 per cent higher, at 6,298.02. The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials were up 0.5 per cent. The global recovery from the pandemic remains uneven. In much of Asia and many other countries, coronavirus caseloads have surged while vaccination levels remain low. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 1.3 per cent to 28,357.54 and the Kospi in South Korea slipped 0.7 pe
Hong Kong-listed China Telecom Corp, the state-owned wireless carrier blacklisted by Washington, said on Tuesday it plans to sell shares in Shanghai to broaden its financing channels
Pakistan on Monday condemned terrorism in all its forms and cautioned against the recent rise in extremist and racist incidents, during a high-level virtual SCO meeting hosted by India.
London has seen a 67 per cent decline in connectivity via air travel, according to The International Air Transport Association (IATA). By September 2020, it had fallen to eighth spot.
The EV maker plans to invest 42 million yuan ($6.4 million) in a new factory in Shanghai
Authorities in China's Shanghai have quarantined 186 people and conducted coronavirus tests on over 8,000 after a freight handler at the city's main international airport tested positive for the virus
Ant was set to go public in Hong Kong and Shanghai on Thursday after raising about $37 billion, including the greenshoe option of the domestic leg, in a record public sale of shares
Stock benchmarks fell in Hong Kong, Sydney and Seoul. Tokyo was flat. Shanghai recovered from early losses to edge higher
The move comes one month after Ant won approval from the Shanghai Stock Exchange for the domestic leg of the dual listing
Ant, backed by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, plans to list simultaneously in Hong Kong and Shanghai
Ant's initial public offering would be the first simultaneous listing in Hong Kong and the year-old STAR Market
The share sales could raise about $30 billion in total if markets are favorable, said one of the people
Of the two venues, the company prefers Hong Kong, it says
Ant is planning to list on Shanghai's STAR market & Hong Kong
At Hong Kong, an important financial centre in Asia, Indian banks have had business operations for decades.
However, there were two new suspected cases: an imported one in Shanghai and locally transmitted case in the northeastern province of Jilin.
The newly identified coronavirus has created alarm because much about it is still unknown, such as how dangerous it is and how easily it spreads between people
Musk is counting on the China plant to help build on recent momentum for the company in the world's largest market both for EVs and autos
The CNAPS, launched in 2008 by People's Bank of China provides real-time settlement services for all payments cleared in mainland China, as well as in all clearing banks in offshore yuan centers
Shanghai's Nasdaq-style Science and Technology board marks a radical shift