By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON -A U.S. congressional committee has invited board members at four oil majors to testify about the industry’s role in climate change and spreading “disinformation,” turning up…
By Praveen Menon, Kirsty Needham and Tom Westbrook WELLINGTON/SYDNEY – Life-saving water supplies from a New Zealand navy ship were distributed across Tonga’s main island on Friday, as other countries…
By Clare Jim and Brenda Goh HONG KONG/SHANGHAI -The provincial government leading China Evergrande Group’s restructuring wants to separate the company’s offshore assets and sell them to pay off foreign…
By Dawn Chmielewski – Even as Netflix Inc executives sought to reassure investors in a Thursday video interview that its long-term prospects for streaming media remain bright, with its popular…
By Kevin Yao BEIJING -China will be able to achieve economic growth of around 5.5% in 2022, an adviser to the government’s cabinet said on Friday, making a rosier prediction…
(Toyota corrects number of affected plants to 12 from 11) TOKYO -Toyota Motor Corp is slowing production at as many as 12 plants in Japan because of rising COVID-19 infections…
SHANGHAI -China’s central bank said on Friday it has cut interest rates on another key monetary policy tool, capping off a week of easing measures that underscore official concern about…
-U.S. authorities on Thursday charged a man with human smuggling of Indian nationals from Canada, the day after four people including a baby were found frozen to death in a…
A look at the day ahead from Dhara Ranasinghe. The S&P 500 looks set to end the week down almost 4% in its biggest weekly drop since late 2020. Trade…
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE -A Japanese-Australian venture producing hydrogen from brown coal is set to start loading its maiden cargo on the world’s first liquid hydrogen carrier on Friday, in…
By William Schomberg LONDON -British retail sales slumped in December after consumers did much of their Christmas shopping earlier than usual in November and many people stayed at home due…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reiterated on Friday that it was up to the central bank to decide on an exit strategy from…
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES -Netflix Inc dashed hopes for a quick rebound after forecasting weak first-quarter subscriber growth on Thursday, sending shares sinking nearly 20% and wiping away most…
By Tim Kelly and Shinji Kitamura TOKYO -Sony Group will likely add new technology partners to its electric vehicle (EV) project to help it forge a mobility business to transform…
By Andrius Sytas and John O’Donnell VILNIUS/FRANKFURT – Lithuania is under pressure from German companies to back down in a dispute with China to end a blockade of the Baltic…
SYDNEY – Qantas Airways Ltd will cut domestic capacity by 10 more percentage points, to 60% of pre-pandemic levels, in the March quarter after the state of Western Australia indefinitely…
By Anshuman Daga SINGAPORE – A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), backed by European asset manager Tikehau Capital and a holding firm of LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault, became the second…
– Peloton Interactive Inc’s chief executive said on Thursday the company was reviewing the size of its workforce and “resetting” production levels, following a report earlier in the day that…
By Poppy McPherson and Fanny Potkin BANGKOK -Lebanon’s M1 Group will partner with a Myanmar firm to take over Norwegian telco Telenor’s business in the Southeast Asian country after its…
By Rami Ayyub and Alexandra Ulmer -The prosecutor for Georgia’s biggest county on Thursday requested a special grand jury with subpoena power to aid her investigation into then-President Donald Trump’s…
By Jonnelle Marte -Creating an official digital version of the U.S. dollar could give Americans more, and speedier, payment options, but it would also present financial stability risks and privacy…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is discussing a scaled-back law focused on safeguarding election results and protecting election officials from harassment following Democrats’ twin…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON – Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd, a crypto-oriented financial services firm, on Thursday said it hired an executive from asset management giant Blackstone Group to help grow…
By Kantaro Komiya and Leika Kihara TOKYO – Japan’s core consumer prices rose 0.5% in December from a year earlier, increasing for a second month in a row at the…
By Jan Wolfe and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON -The U.S. House of Representatives’ panel investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Thursday requested an interview with…