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Singapore stocks extend gains on Tuesday led by banks; STI up 1.5%
SINGAPORE stocks extended gains on Tuesday (Apr 23), as local banks led gains on the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI).
The STI rose 1.5 per cent or 47.55 points to...
Binance’s rivals muscle in on Bitcoin trading around the world
CRYPTO exchanges are eating into Binance’s share of Bitcoin trading outside the US as overseas expansion efforts and changing regulations reshape the competitive dynamics of the digital-asset industry.
Over the...
British retailer JD Sports to buy US rival Hibbett for US$1.08 billion
JD SPORTS Fashion has proposed to buy American athletic-fashion retailer Hibbett for about US$1.08 billion, the companies said on Tuesday (Apr 23), as the British sportswear retailer expands across...
Renault Q1 sales rise 1.8%, helped by financing business
FRENCH car maker Renault said on Tuesday (Apr 23) that its first-quarter revenue grew 1.8 per cent, with good performance in its financing business offsetting a drop in turnover...
China acquired recently banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro, Dell servers, tenders show
CHINESE universities and research institutes recently obtained high-end Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips through resellers, despite the US widening a ban last year on the sale of such technology...
China finance ministry echoes Xi’s call for bond trading at PBOC
CHINA’S Ministry of Finance said it supports allowing the central bank to trade government bonds, reaffirming a sentence from President Xi Jinping that ignited market speculation about a change...
Gold edges higher; hovers near one-week low on tempered Middle East fears
GOLD prices edged up on Tuesday (Apr 23) but hovered near a one-week low hit in the previous session, as worries over a wider Middle East conflict subsided, boosting...
Memecoin mania sent Bitcoin fees soaring during the ‘halving’
THE fear of missing out on the latest breed of memecoins helped to briefly temper the potential blow of a Bitcoin software update to the companies that make money...
