In a record-breaking number that signaled to the world that Chinese business leaders were hot to haggle, China struck $225 billion in deals to acquire companies abroad last year. Now, China is telling some of its companies to cool it… Read More ›
Economy & Finance
Britain scurries to have a contingency plans in case of a hard brexit
Failing to provide a contingency plans would amount to a serious dereliction of duty.
Survey Finds Substantial Cash Risks Being Faced By Asian Millennials
Millennials in Asia are expected to carry mortgage debt into retirement or even run out of money as they face a substantial cash risk during their later years,, found a new study. While 90 percent said they expect to be… Read More ›
Assange Offers Hacking Tools to Tech Companies Following Wikileaks’ Latest Revelation Of CIA’s Hacking
Presenting Silicon Valley with a potential dilemma on how to deal with the anti-secrecy group, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that it will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools that it possesses so they can patch… Read More ›
China’s HNA Group seeks to boost stake in Deutsche Bank
For the Chinese, this is likely to be a strategic investment to get a foothold in the European financial sector. Two sources with knowledge of the matter have revealed that the Chinese conglomerate, the HNA Group, is seeking to increase… Read More ›
Tesla offers Australia a helping hand to solve its massive power outages
Australia desperately needs within the next 2 years more installations of wind and solar energy plants to avert severe blackouts. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, has offered to save Australians from their dependency from the state by installing battery storage worth… Read More ›
VW set to plead guilty to emissions in the U.S.
While there have been hundreds of articles saying how much pollution VW has caused with its cheating scandal for which it has now agreed to pay up to $25 billion in fines in the U.S. alone, with the Trump administration… Read More ›
Trump Administration could reset U.S. Japan relations back to the 1980s
While the U.S. government may want Japan to open up its agricultural sector, Japan would prefer that the talks revolve around issues such as foreign direct investment, infrastructure and energy. Japan has outright rejected U.S. demands for more access to… Read More ›
Wind Power Blows Through Nuclear, Coal as Costs Plunge at Sea
Unless you add some wind, water and electric power plants don’t mix well naturally. What is being described as an engineering miracle at the very least is developers are putting jumbo-jet sized wind turbines into stormy seas in the renewable… Read More ›
Important News Floating In Asian Waters Awaits The International Oil Market
Floating storage off Singapore is a less visible number is flashing a warning sign for the global oil industry, say analysts, even as oil prices have been pushed to their lowest levels of 2017 as U.S. crude inventories surged by 8.2… Read More ›