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South Africa Sells Its AstraZeneca Vaccine Doses To AU
South Africa has sold a million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for distribution in 14 fellow African…
ByteDance Acquires Gaming Studio Moonton At Around $4 Billion Valuation: Sources
ByteDance said on Monday its video games unit Nuverse has agreed to acquire Shanghai-based gaming studio Moonton…
FINMA Chief To Head Up German Financial Watchdog BaFin: Handelsblatt
Mark Branson, the head of Switzerland’s financial markets regulator FINMA, is to be named the new President of…
COVID-19 Has Opened New Opportunities In Digital Economy In Africa — ECA
A new report launched by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on the impact of COVID-19 on e-commerce in the…
BOJ Buys Stock ETFs As Usual After Policy Change, But Changes May Lie Ahead
The Bank of Japan bought around 50 billion yen of Japanese stocks exchange traded funds (ETFs) on Monday, in line…
Huawei Lawyers To Focus On Witness Refusal To Testify In U.S. Extradition
Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s U.S. extradition hearings on Monday are expected to focus on a former…
Turkish Lira Plunges To Near Record Low After Erdogan Sacks Central Bank Chief
Turkey’s lira briefly fell 15% to near its all-time low on Monday after President Tayyip Erdogan’s shock weekend…
Brexit reality Stokes Fears For The Peace In Northern Ireland
The deep anger among some pro-British unionists in Northern Ireland over post-Brexit trade barriers that cut it off…
China Seeks To Rein In Mobile Apps’ Collection Of Personal Data
China’s cyber watchdog said on Monday mobile app providers cannot deny users basic access to their services even if…
Britons Should Wait Before Booking International Travel: Minister
Britons should wait before booking summer holidays abroad, social care minister Helen Whately warned on Monday,…
Saudi Aramco To Prioritise Energy Supply To China For 50 Years, Says CEO
Saudi Aramco will ensure China’s energy security remains its highest priority for the next 50 years and beyond as…
Oil Falls As European Lockdowns Douse Recovery Hopes
Oil prices resumed their decline on Monday, falling around 1% as worries about a drop in demand for fuel products…
Richmond Fed’s Barkin: U.S. May Be ‘On The Brink’ Of Complete…
The U.S. economy may be “on the brink of completing the recovery” from the recession triggered by the coronavirus…
US-Nigeria Investment Summit To Hold In New York
The US-Nigeria Investments Summit has announced it will hold a global trade and investment event for 2021 in…
Canadian Pacific To Buy Kansas City Southern In $25 Billion Railway Bet On Trade
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd agreed on Sunday to acquire Kansas City Southern in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal…
Blackstone Proposal Values Australian Casino Operator Crown At $6.2 Billion
Buyout giant Blackstone Group Inc made a $5.6 billion play for the shares of Australia’s Crown Resorts Ltd it does…
Japan Car Makers Scramble To Assess Impact Of Renesas Auto Chip-Plant Fire
Toyota, Nissan, Honda and other Japanese automakers scrambled on Monday to assess the production impact of a fire…
Wall Street’s Year Of Bust And Boom
Wall Street giddyness in recent weeks stands in stark contrast to the pandemic panic of one year ago.
U.S. stocks…
UK Partners Nigeria To Enhance Digital Access
The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in…
Experts Seek Regulation Of Cryptocurrencies In Nigeria
Some economic experts have urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to seek measures to regulate cryptocurrency…
EU Declares AstraZeneca Vaccine Safe, Effective, As NGF Backs Its Continuous Use
THE European Medicines Agency, EMA, which is the European Union’s most authoritative regulator of medicinal…
TELECOMS: Voice Call Subscribers Drop, Internet Users Rise In Q4’20
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) yesterday said the number of subscribers for voice calls fell marginally…
Capital Group Becomes Second-Biggest Investor In ABB
U.S.-based investment manager Capital Group has increased its stake in ABB to 5.05%, a regulatory filing showed on…
Corteva to Appoint Three Directors Proposed By Starboard
Corteva Inc said on Friday three new independent directors proposed by activist investor Starboard Value LP will…
Citi, J.P. Morgan Hired To Coordinate Islandsbanki IPO
Iceland’s state holding company has hired Citigroup and J.P. Morgan to help coordinate Islandsbanki’s upcoming…
China Bans Tesla Cars In Military Complexes On Concerns About Cameras.
The Chinese military has banned Tesla Inc’s cars from military complexes and housing compounds because of concerns…
Room With A View: Investors Check Out Italy’s Top Hotels
International investors are casting an eye over some of Italy’s grandest hotels whose family owners may be…
Futures Rise As Spike In Bond Yields Eases
U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Friday following a steep pullback in the prior session as bond yields…
UK’s Taylor Wimpey, Countryside Asked To Drop Unfair Ground Rent Terms
British homebuilders Taylor Wimpey and Countryside Properties must remove contract terms that lock leaseholders…
Nearly A Dozen Countries Resume AstraZeneca Shots After EU, UK Regulators Say…
Nearly a dozen countries resumed use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shots on Friday as EU and British regulators said…