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StanChart announces US billion share buyback, dividend hike as 2023 profit rises 18%
StanChart announces US$1 billion share buyback, dividend hike as 2023 profit rises 18%
STANDARD Chartered on Friday (Feb 23) reported 2023 pre-tax profit rose 18 per cent, in line with forecasts, and rewarded shareholders with a US$1 billion share buyback and a...
StanChart announces US billion share buyback, dividend hike as 2023 profit rises 18%
StanChart announces US$1 billion share buyback, dividend hike as 2023 profit rises 18%
STANDARD Chartered on Friday (Feb 23) reported 2023 pre-tax profit rose 18 per cent, in line with forecasts, and rewarded shareholders with a US$1 billion share buyback and a...
IHG to return over US billion to shareholders this year after stellar 2023
IHG to return over US$1 billion to shareholders this year after stellar 2023
HOLIDAY Inn owner IHG posted slightly better-than-expected annual room revenue on Tuesday (Feb 20) and said it expected to return more than US$1 billion to shareholders in 2024 as...
Cryptoverse: Breezy Bitcoin reclaims US trillion crown
Cryptoverse: Breezy Bitcoin reclaims US$1 trillion crown
THE world’s largest cryptocurrency has leapt 22 per cent this year to US$52,005, pushing it past a market value of US$1 trillion mark for the first time since its...
Lilly’s climb has analysts asking US trillion question
Lilly’s climb has analysts asking US$1 trillion question
ELI Lilly & Co’s relentless stock records have Morgan Stanley analysts musing whether it will become the first US company outside of the Magnificent Seven to reach a market...
Morgan Stanley seeks up to US billion in GE HealthCare shares
Morgan Stanley seeks up to US$1 billion in GE HealthCare shares
MORGAN Stanley is seeking as much as US$1.1 billion for a block of GE HealthCare Technologies shares as part of a debt-for-equity swap, people familiar with the situation said....
Thailand mulls US billion global sovereign bond offer, first in two decades
Thailand mulls US$1 billion global sovereign bond offer, first in two decades
THAILAND’S government is weighing a plan to raise about US$1 billion from the global market via what would be the country’s first foreign-currency sovereign bond sale in two decades....
Oil falls by more than US a barrel on US crude build, security threat worries
Oil falls by more than US$1 a barrel on US crude build, security threat worries
OIL futures sank by US$1 a barrel on Wednesday (Feb 14) as surging United States crude inventories pushed down prices and a possible security threat to the US that...
Total amount invested in Bitcoin back over US trillion
Total amount invested in Bitcoin back over US$1 trillion
THE total amount of money invested in Bitcoin surpassed US$1 trillion on Wednesday (Feb 14) for the first time since November 2021 as inflows to US spot Bitcoin exchange...
Crypto ransom attack payments hit record US billion in 2023: Chainalysis
Crypto ransom attack payments hit record US$1 billion in 2023: Chainalysis
PAYMENTS from crypto-related ransom attacks nearly doubled to a record US$1 billion in 2023, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said on Wednesday (Feb 7). Scammers targeting institutions such as hospitals,...