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Labour talks to resume as Boeing strike enters fourth week
TALKS are set to resume next week on a new labour contract covering some 33,000 striking Seattle-area Boeing employees, both sides said Friday.As the strike entered its fourth week,...
Qatar Investment Authority joins consortium to take HK-listed ESR Group private
HONG Kong-listed real estate fund manager ESR Group said on Friday (Oct 4) Qatar Holding has joined a consortium of investors proposing to take the company private under an...
Tencent, Guillemot family are said to consider buyout of Ubisoft
TENCENT Holdings and Ubisoft Entertainment’s founding Guillemot family are considering options including a potential buyout of the French video game developer after it lost more than half its market...
Hair loss drug probed in Europe over link to suicidal thoughts
EUROPE’S medicines regulator has started a review of whether a drug used to treat male balding can be linked to suicidal thoughts and behaviours.
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA)...
Cognac producers lament European Union EV tariff vote, raise retaliation concerns
They insist negotiations continue for a solution that will prevent the spirit from facing a surtax FRENCH cognac producers accused their government of abandoning them, after the European Union...
Temasek-backed TrueLayer loses unicorn status in fundraising round
TRUELAYER, a fintech backed by Tiger Global, Temasek and Stripe, has seen its valuation slashed by roughly 30 per cent in its latest funding round, according to a person...
Singapore stocks end higher ahead of US jobs report; STI up 0.3%
SINGAPORE shares closed Friday (Oct 4) in the black, ahead of the US jobs data for September. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) climbed 0.3 per cent or 11.7...
Hong Kong shares jump to 31-month peak
Hong Kong stocks rose nearly 3 per cent on Friday (Oct 4) to close at their highest level since March 2022, still cheering China’s massive economic stimulus proposals, while...
ECB’s chief supervisor presses for cross-border mergers
THE European Central Bank’s chief supervisor pressed her case for cross-border bank mergers on Friday (Oct 4) as Italy’s UniCredit considered a bid for Germany’s Commerzbank after taking a...
Nikkei logs weekly drop as PM Ishiba rattles markets
Japanese stocks posted their steepest weekly fall in a month on Friday (Oct 4), as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s seemingly shifting stance on interest rates roiled the yen and...
