The executive from one of China's biggest soybean crushers sat on a panel at a Kansas City agricultural exports conference, listening to an expert beside him explain why China would remain dependent on U.S. soybeans to feed its massive hog herds.
Tencent Music Entertainment Group , China's biggest music-streaming company, has halved the amount it is seeking to raise in a U.S. listing to about $2 billion, according to three people close to the deal.
Confidence among Asian companies slumped to the weakest in almost three years in the third quarter as businesses feared blowback from a worsening global trade war, a Thomson Reuters/INSEAD survey showed.
Nestle , Unilever and Coca-Cola are among bidders for GlaxoSmithKline's Indian Horlicks nutrition business, expected to fetch more than $4 billion, four people familiar with the matter said.
Several cryptocurrency exchanges are plagued by poor market surveillance, pervasive conflicts of interest and lack sufficient customer protections, the New York Attorney General's office said in a report published on Tuesday.
WeWork Cos said it surpassed JP Morgan , the biggest U.S. bank, as the largest tenant of Manhattan office space, a milestone highlighting growing demand for flexible leases.
Asian stocks rose across the board on Wednesday as expectations that Beijing would implement stimulus to soften the economic blow from the Sino-U.S. trade war helped Chinese shares rally.
| S&P » | 2,904.31 | +0.54% |
| Dow » | 26,246.96 | +0.71% |
| FTSE 100 » | 7,300.23 | -0.03% |
| Nikkei 225 » | 23,711.38 | +1.24% |
| US 10YR |
+3.050
|
+0.002 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.483
|
+0.002 |
| JP 10YR |
+0.118
|
+0.003 |
| USD / EUR » | 0.8555 | -0.16% |
| USD / GBP » | 0.7601 | -0.05% |
| USD / JPY » | 112.2600 | -0.08% |
North Korea agreed on Wednesday to "permanently" abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, and said it is willing to close its main nuclear complex if the United States takes unspecified "reciprocal action".