UK wealth manager offloads international business to focus on core UK high net worth customers
Japan and South Korea lead the way in Asian manufacturing recovery, according to purchasing manager indexes
Positive sentiment around manufacturing, banking and energy helps boost share prices across euro zone
Google will contribute €25m to the European Media and Information Fund in a bid to tackle misinformation and fake news, the company said
Sweden’s Ericsson is opening a lab in Ottawa, Canada, to work on new 5G radio access networks (RAN) technologies
Hitachi is acquiring US software company GlobalLogic for $9.6bn, as the Japanese industrial conglomerate looks to expand into digital services
A global shortage of chips is now hitting home appliance makers as they are unable to meet demand
The Bank of Japan has said it will look at climate change risks during its bank examinations for the year beginning in April
German flying taxi start-up Lilium is to list on the US stock market via a reverse merger with Qell Acquisition Corp
Chinese mobile device charging startup backed by Alibaba and SoftBank, Energy Monster, is caught up in an ownership dispute that could affect its Nasdaq IPO listing, one already hindered by new US regulations to delist foreign companies
China generated more than half of the world’s total coal-fired power in 2020, nine percentage points more than five years earlier, a global data study showed.
European stocks reached a nearly record high on growing hopes of a global economic recovery, while Credit Suisse fell following a warning of ‘significant’ losses from exiting positions
Retail sales in the UK rose 2.1 per cent last month after a steep fall of 8.2 per cent in January, the Office for National Statistics said
Germany’s Allianz has bought Aviva’s Polish operation for €2.5bn in cash
Oil prices rose about two per cent on growing fears that it could take weeks to remove a huge container ship blocking the Suez Canal
