Despite the Japanese economy growing in the fourth quarter of 2020, the economy could not make up the loss that it had sustained during the earlier part of the year because of the Covit-19 pandemic as the Japanese economy registered… Read More ›
Economy & Finance
Tesla Inc sets up EV manufacturing plant in India
According to a government document, Tesla Inc will be setting up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern state of Karnataka. “The U.S. firm Tesla will be opening an electric car manufacturing unit in Karnataka,” said a state government official… Read More ›
Israel to reopen restaurants, hotels, cafes, tourism with select countries from March
In a significant development that marks an attempt to go back to pre-coronavirus pandemic times, officials from Israel said they plan to reopen restaurants around March 9 and restart tourism with Cyprus as part of a gradual return to normality… Read More ›
No Salary Rise For Shell Employees, And Aims To Cut $1bn In Bonuses
Salaries of most of the employees of the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc will not be raised for the current year, said reports quoting information from sources with knowledge of the matter. According to the sources this decision was… Read More ›
China’s BytDance Considering Sale Of Indian TikTok Biz To Rival Glance: Report
According to a report published on Saturday by Bloomberg News, the Chinese etch company and owner of the short video sharing app TikTok, ByteDance, is reportedly considering options for a sale out of it’s the operations of the video sharing… Read More ›
Crypto Venture Announcement By BNY Mellon Pushes Bitcoin To New High
Following the announcement by BNY Mellon that it had constituted a special unit that would help its clients to BNY Mellon, the value of the crypto currency bitcoin surged to a new all-time high on Thursday. The bank said that… Read More ›
Surprise Profit Posted By Disney As Its Streaming Subscriptions Grow Strongly
The largest entertainment company of the world Walt Disney Co returned to profits in its latest completed quarter driven by a growth in its Disney+ subscribers as well as lowering of losses at its theme parks which were hit hard… Read More ›
EU Willing To Work With US’s Biden Administration For Settling Trade Spats
The move by the new government of the United States under president Joe Biden to not impose additional tariffs on goods from the European Union as a part of the -running dispute over aircraft tariffs was acknowledged by the EU… Read More ›
Disney reports third quarterly profit, shrugs off pandemic woes
In a pleasant surprise, Walt Disney Co has reported a quarterly profit after “The Mandalorian” and “Soul” lifted growing streaming business, outweighing pandemic concerns over its hobbled theme park operations. Investors overlooked its 53% decline in park revenues in the… Read More ›
French automobile and electronics firm will work together to improve availability of chips in supply chain: French Finance Ministry
In a statement, the French Finance Ministry stated, French companies from the automobile and electronics sectors will collaborate and work together in the near-term in order to improve and fix supply chain glitches that have hit the automotive industry. Carmakers… Read More ›