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By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics flagged a continued recovery in memory chips and tech demand in 2024, after reporting a 34% drop in fourth-quarter profit …

(Reuters) – Australia’s corporate regulator said on Wednesday that a court found Westpac engaged in unethical conduct while carrying out an A$12 billion ($7.88 billion) interest rate swap transaction in …

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese authorities are committed to a flexible exchange rate, which acts as a shock absorber and supports the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy objective, a senior International …

BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s manufacturing activity contracted for the fourth straight month in January, an official factory survey showed on Wednesday, suggesting the sprawling sector and the broader economy were struggling …

(Reuters) – A Delaware judge tossed out Elon Musk’s record-breaking $56 billion Tesla pay package on Tuesday, calling the compensation granted by the EV maker’s board “an unfathomable sum” that …

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian consumer price inflation slowed more than expected to a two-year low in the fourth quarter, while a sharp deceleration in core inflation prompted markets to bring forward …

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese electric vehicle (EV) battery giant CATL forecast net profit growth of up to 48.1% in 2023 on Tuesday, representing sharply weaker growth than the previous year …

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s industrial output rose in December, government data showed on Wednesday, lifted by machinery production although a safety scandal at Toyota’s small-car unit threatened to weigh heavily on …

By Deborah Mary Sophia (Reuters) -Starbucks cut its annual sales forecast on Tuesday as the Israel-Hamas war hurt its Middle East business, while warning that softer demand in January and …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States said on Tuesday that the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees needs to make “fundamental changes” before Washington will resume funding that …

By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s prudential regulator said on Wednesday it will review how sections of the A$2.5 trillion ($1.7 trillion) pension fund sector value unlisted assets and …

By Raneen Sawafta, Fadi Shana and Nidal al-Mughrabi WEST BANK/GAZA/DOHA (Reuters) -Hamas said on Tuesday it had received and was studying a new proposal for a ceasefire and release of …

By Jeffrey Dastin and Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Alphabet disappointed Wall Street on Tuesday as holiday-season advertising sales came in below expectations and the company said its spending on items such …

By Peter Hobson CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian court on Tuesday heard closing arguments in a class action lawsuit alleging that a weedkiller produced by Bayer caused cancer, the first …

By Peter Frontini SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian planemaker Embraer reported on Tuesday deliveries of 75 jets in the fourth quarter, making both its executive and commercial jets slightly miss the …

By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam and Ariba Shahid ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -A court in Pakistan jailed Imran Khan for 10 years on Tuesday for leaking state secrets, the harshest sentence the popular …

By Max A. Cherney and Arsheeya Bajwa (Reuters) – Chipmaker AMD on Tuesday boosted its 2024 forecast for its artificial intelligence (AI) processors by $1.5 billion. Investors wanted more. AMD’s …

By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value late on Tuesday after Microsoft, Alphabet and Advanced Micro Devices delivered quarterly results that failed to …

By Raneen Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli commandos disguised as medical workers and Muslim women burst into a hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and killed …

LONDON (Reuters) – British businesses started 2024 with their confidence at the highest level in nearly two years but their plans for more staffing are not translating into accelerating wage …

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chita Rivera, the musical theater legend and multiple Tony winner who created the role of Puerto Rican firebrand Anita on Broadway in “West …

By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) -The tech-heavy Nasdaq lost ground on Tuesday as the market awaited a spate of high profile corporate earnings and the Federal Reserve convened for …