Tag: financials

Signs of a widening embrace across the financial services industry sent bitcoin to new heights, with the cryptocurrency closing in on US$50,000 for the first time before falling back. A week after ... ( read original story ...)

Regarded as one of the world’s safest countries from the coronavirus, Taiwan is also one of the few that registered positive economic growth in 2020 with bright prospects for 2021. Its clever handling ... ( read original story ...)

Domestic equity market benchmarks BSE Sensex and Nifty 50 were trading in the positive territory in pre-opening session on Monday ... ( read original story ...)

Goldman Sachs Group Inc is just getting started in the fast-expanding world of sustainable finance. The New York-based lender plans to issue more environmental, social and governance (ESG) bonds on a ... ( read original story ...)

The EU is considering building an advanced semiconductor factory in Europe in an attempt to avoid relying on the US and Asia for technology at the heart of some of its major industries. The EU is ... ( read original story ...)

When more than 6,000 spectators packed into Changhua County Stadium on Dec. 19 last year, they were there to witness a historic moment — the first professional basketball game in Taiwan since the ... ( read original story ...)

The S&P 500 and NASDAQ set record closing highs on Friday as investors bought energy, financial and materials shares and sold big tech stocks in anticipation of new fiscal aid from Washington to help ... ( read original story ...)

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stressed the need for the G7 countries to “go big” with fiscal stimulus to support economic recovery from the global pandemic. In her first call with foreign ... ( read original story ...)

Kuomintang aims to court US support by reopening its Washington office, closed after it last won power in Taiwan, but anti-Beijing sentiment there has hardened. ( read original story ...)

China has created financial dependence amongst several South Asian and Southeast Asian countries and has pushed its agenda of establishing commercial bases in t ... ( read original story ...)

After the pandemic torpedoed his chance to work at a Michelin-starred New York restaurant, Lim Wei Keat returned to his roots by becoming a Singapore street-food chef cooking local fare. The ... ( read original story ...)

AdvisorNet Financial Inc decreased its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) by 10.2% in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 11,914 shares of ... ( read original story ...)

Only three out of 560 companies that listed on US stock markets in 2020 were founded by women, according to Bloomberg. At lunch time in Sydney, the broad ASX All Ordinaries index was marginally lower, ... ( read original story ...)

Malaysia’s economic contraction quickened again in the fourth quarter, as a fresh virus wave late last year helped drive the economy to its worst annual showing since the Asian financial crisis. GDP ... ( read original story ...)

Deutsche Bank has been named as one of the four banks that Taiwan penalized for speculation. The past weekend, Taiwans central bank announced that it banned the German multinational investment bank ... ( read original story ...)

Clubhouse has in just two months become the venue of choice for luminaries like Elon Musk or Drake to expound on everything from telepathic monkeys to stock market valuations. But the real winner of ... ( read original story ...)