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China shares hit 27-month high

China shares hit 27-month high

-- 2017-11-10 03:21:02

China’s blue-chip stocks extended gains on Friday morning to a 27-month high, underpinned by robust gains in consumer firms and other sector leaders. The market was also encouraged by the outco...

NZ shares inch down as technology drag

NZ shares inch down as technology drag

-- 2017-11-10 03:19:52

New Zealand shares edged lower on Friday, while Australian shares pulled back from 10-year highs, as weakness in commodity prices weighed on materials and energy-driven stocks. The New Zealand shares...

Australian shares fall slightly

Australian shares fall slightly

-- 2017-11-10 03:18:31

Australian shares edged lower on Friday, pulling back from recent 10-year highs, as weakness in commodity prices weighed on materials and energy-driven stocks. The S&P/ASX 200 index was down 0.3...

SE Asian stocks rise; S'pore jumps

SE Asian stocks rise; S'pore jumps

-- 2017-11-09 12:58:11

Most of the Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Thursday, with Singapore inching higher to a fresh two-year high and Vietnam set to extend its gaining run to the fifth session, scaling a 10-year p...

Asian shares mute; Nikkei surges

Asian shares mute; Nikkei surges

-- 2017-11-09 12:22:54

Japan’s stock benchmark surged Thursday to its highest in more than a quarter century on the yen’s weakness and healthy corporate earnings while other Asian markets were subdued. Japan&rs...

Australian senator faces racial abuse at pub

Australian senator faces racial abuse at pub

-- 2017-11-09 12:06:13

An Australian senator has criticised "the rise of the radical right" after he was racially abused by a group of men at a pub in Melbourne. Senator Sam Dastyari, who was born in Iran, was harassed wit...

RHD projects likely to be costlier soon

RHD projects likely to be costlier soon

Munima Sultana 2017-11-09 12:00:00

Building roads and bridges in the public sector is likely to cost the government more in the future days as a move is underway to revise upward the prices of construction materials, sources said. The...

Jockey punches horse, gets suspended

Jockey punches horse, gets suspended

BBC 2017-11-09 12:00:00

A jockey has been suspended for punching his horse before a race in South Australia. Video of the incident shows Dylan Caboche, 22, mounted on the horse, She's Reneldasgirl, and struggling to guide i...

US issues strict Cuba travel restrictions

US issues strict Cuba travel restrictions

-- 2017-11-09 11:44:19

The US administration has published a series of measures increasing limits on Americans' dealings with Cuba. The package includes a blacklist of state-owned companies and entities, including shops an...

US stocks hit high; videogame makers rally

US stocks hit high; videogame makers rally

-- 2017-11-09 11:17:04

Wall Street closed at a record high on Wednesday as videogame makers rallied and Apple’s market value climbed above $900 billion. Take-Two Interactive Software jumped 10.58 per cent after the v...

Self-driving bus crashes in Las Vegas

Self-driving bus crashes in Las Vegas

BBC 2017-11-09 10:36:02

A self-driving shuttle bus in Las Vegas was involved in a crash on its first day of service. The vehicle - carrying “several” passengers - collided with a lorry driving at slow speed. N...

Nikkei jumps, Topix hits 26-year high

Nikkei jumps, Topix hits 26-year high

-- 2017-11-09 10:30:55

Japan’s Topix index rose to a 26-year high on Thursday, while the Nikkei share average broke the 23,000 level for the first time since January 1992 as financial and securities shares rallied. T...

Tanzania 'grenade' explosion kills six schoolchildren

Tanzania 'grenade' explosion kills six schoolchildren

-- 2017-11-09 10:12:51

At least six children have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion at a primary school in Kagera region near the border with Burundi in north-west Tanzania, witnesses say. The pupils were p...

Broadcom’s bid to take over Qualcomm

Broadcom’s bid to take over Qualcomm

FE Online Report 2017-11-09 04:01:35

Shares of Broadcom Ltd has jumped as it made an unsolicited bid worth $130 billion for acquiring the mobile chipmaker Qualcomm last week. Reports about the bid raised the stock price of Qualcomm as...

European shares open in negative territory

European shares open in negative territory

-- 2017-11-09 03:48:21

European shares opened in negative territory on Thursday, as a flurry of corporate earnings for the third quarter triggered sharp prices moves across some sectors and bourses. The pan-European STOXX...

Gulf markets weak at opening

Gulf markets weak at opening

-- 2017-11-09 03:40:53

Most Gulf stock markets were weak in early trade on Thursday because of concern about the impact of Saudi Arabia’s anti-corruption investigation. The Saudi stock index fell 0.7 per cent in the...

BSE, NSE edge up; Reliance leads

BSE, NSE edge up; Reliance leads

-- 2017-11-09 03:27:31

Indian stock markets rose a wee bit on Thursday, led by shares of oil refiners such as Reliance Industries Ltd and Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd as oil prices fell overnight. The broader NSE index w...

UK house prices stall; London falls

UK house prices stall; London falls

-- 2017-11-09 03:22:18

House prices in Britain have stalled, the prices are falling in London at their fastest pace since 2009, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said on Thursday. RICS’s benchmark house pr...

BTRC to seek explanation from Teletalk about SIM fraud

BTRC to seek explanation from Teletalk about SIM fraud

FE Report 2017-11-09 02:58:58

Bangladesh Telecommu-nication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is going to seek explanation from the state-owned mobile operator Teletalk of its alleged sales of pre-activated SIM at Rangpur customer care...

HIV patients ‘at high risk of’ heart attack

HIV patients ‘at high risk of’ heart attack

-- 2017-11-09 01:44:56

HIV patients are at greater risk for a heart attack or stroke and are also at risk for chronic kidney disease, according to a study. More than 1400 people in the study being treated for HIV had been...

Asian stocks mixed after Trump warn N Korea

Asian stocks mixed after Trump warn N Korea

-- 2017-11-08 12:58:44

Asian shares were mixed Wednesday after Wall Street declined as President Donald Trump delivered a new warning to North Korea in a speech to South Korean lawmakers. The Shanghai Composite Index gain...

UN adopts resolution to combat Somalian pirates

UN adopts resolution to combat Somalian pirates

-- 2017-11-08 12:49:11

The Security Council Tuesday adopted a resolution to condemn the acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia and to call for a comprehensive response to prevent and suppress such...

KOSPI stock index rises, won drops

KOSPI stock index rises, won drops

-- 2017-11-08 12:44:27

South Korea's KOSPI stock index rose on Wednesday. The Korean won fell while bond yields rose. At 01:13 GMT, the KOSPI was up 1.82 points or 0.07 per cent at 2,547.26, reports Reuters. The won was q...

Southeast Asian stocks mute

Southeast Asian stocks mute

-- 2017-11-08 12:37:22

Southeast Asian stock markets were mostly muted on Wednesday, with Indonesia slipping from a record close, as investors took a breather in the absence of market-moving data. However, Vietnam stocks f...

China stocks edge up amid Trump’s visit

China stocks edge up amid Trump’s visit

-- 2017-11-08 12:28:08

China stocks edged up on Wednesday, with investors increasing their leveraged bets as they await US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. On the mainland, the blue-chip CSI300 index rose 0...

Call to formulate legal framework for e-commerce

Call to formulate legal framework for e-commerce

FE Report 2017-11-08 12:00:33

Speakers at a programme on Tuesday called for framing necessary legal framework for the sake of sustainable growth of e-commerce in the country. Keeping this in view, they suggested immediate enactme...

Shahbazpur gas may remain unutilised for poor demand

Shahbazpur gas may remain unutilised for poor demand

M Azizur Rahman 2017-11-08 12:00:00

The new-found natural gas in a well at Shahbazpur of Bhola gas field might remain unutilised for a long period due to a very limited demand in the island that is not connected to the national gas grid...

Virginia elects first trans state legislator

Virginia elects first trans state legislator

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

A transgender candidate defeated an incumbent Virginia lawmaker Tuesday who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. Democrat Danica Roem, a former journalist, is se...

HK stocks rise to decade high

HK stocks rise to decade high

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

Hong Kong stocks rose to a fresh decade high on Wednesday morning, powered by investor enthusiasm for tech stocks, as shares in China Literature Ltd doubled in their red-hot debut. The Hang Seng inde...

Police nab two drug peddlers

Police nab two drug peddlers

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

Police arrested two drug peddlers from the campus of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia on Tuesday. The arrestees were identified as Mustafizur Rahman (25), son of Nur Muhammad, a resident of Vazonda...