India and South Africa on Wednesday blocked the passage of a major investment agreement at the World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Abu Dhabi, potentially scuttling hundreds of billions of dollars in investments — many of them slated for developing countries of the “Global South,” which India frequently claims to champion.
Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, is now valued at only $12.54 billion just 14 months after the Tesla tycoon acquired the social media platform for $44 billion, according to numbers released by Fidelity Investments.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro arrived in China over the weekend as part of a six-day tour in the Asian nation. Maduro seeks to obtain renewed engagement and financing from the Chinese Communist Party and to garner support for Venezuela’s bid to join the China-led BRICS economic and security bloc.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo visited Beijing on Tuesday and met with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng.
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) stated that President Joe Biden’s executive order on investment in China is “a huge step in the right direction.” But there is a “very concerning” loophole that “direct
President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Wednesday that appears to restrict American investment in Chinese companies in the semiconductor, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) industries.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon stated that there’s a “good chance” spending on the green economy in things like the Inflation Reduction Act will crowd out other investment. CNBC Senior Banking
During an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended taking two years to issue an executive order on outbound investment in China and stated that they want to get the policy right and “these would not be
During a portion of an interview with NPR on Thursday broadcast on Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that “open trade and investment” with China is beneficial to both countries, but there are some areas
Qatar’s government-owned Investment Authority now has a minority stake in the Washington Wizards, the Washington Capitals, and the Washington Mystics.
One of China’s top billionaire bankers has reportedly disappeared, and shares in his investment bank plunged when the news spread.
President Joe Biden plans to call for quadrupling of the one percent surcharge on stock buybacks during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
Chile lost over $50 billion in investment cash between the beginning of violent leftist riots in 2019 and September 2022, Bloomberg reported on Thursday – and with a hardline socialist president, prospects for what was once Latin America’s most successful economy look bleak.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) paid a brief, but extremely lucrative, visit to South Korea on November 16, signing about $75 billion worth of investment agreements in less than 24 hours.
An attack Monday by unknown hackers idled the website of the Polish government office regulating public investment.
Adam Townsend, investor and venture capitalist, advised political observers to monetize their knowledge through investment while warning against the wasteful expenditure of emotional capital on Monday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said Thursday that he would support a 2021 amnesty.
NEW YORK — Neil Young has become the latest musician to strike gold with his song catalogue, selling a 50 percent stake in his music to a British investment company in a deal announced on Wednesday.
The Swedish city of Gothenburg is looking to spend over a billion U.S. dollars in an effort to remove the city’s six no-go zones from a police list of vulnerable neighbourhoods.
China is set to invest “hundreds of billions of yuan” into essential manufacturing and technology projects through a joint venture between the country’s industry ministry and the state-backed China Development Bank, the government announced Friday.
The CEO of Taiwanese company Foxconn, a supplier of smartphone components for Apple, on Tuesday described India as a “bright spot for development” and said his company is planning “further investments” there, once the coronavirus pandemic is no longer a major factor in operations.
The government of India is stepping in to help local manufacturers develop alternatives to Chinese imports, and is officially asking consumers to boycott Chinese products in retaliation for the border skirmish that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead last week.
The outgoing Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, has wasted no time in settling into his new role as U.N. special envoy for global climate action, warning Monday the world faces irreversible heating unless firms turn away from their former investment priorities.
Riyadh — Wall Street titans smiled and schmoozed at a Saudi investment conference widely shunned last year over a critic’s murder, but as wariness lingers some delegates kept their name cards discreetly out of sight.
Investors are shrugging off Project Fear and committing to a future in London, as several measures show the city continues to be a global capital for finance.
The Atlanta Fed’s Business Expectations survey showed expectations for growth in capital spending rising for the third consecutive month.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still deliberating what to do about regulating foreign investments in Israel amid concerns on the part of U.S. and Israeli security forces over the alarming pace of Chinese investments in Israeli infrastructure.
The United Kingdom’s unemployment rate has fallen to a 45-year low, according to a report released Tuesday.
European investment in the United Kingdom has more than doubled since 2016, signalling EU investors see a positive outlook in the long-term post-Brexit.
The world’s top wealth fund has put a 30-year wager on the UK being stronger outside of the European Union.
Elon Musk may be considering taking Tesla private for all the wrong reasons.
Israel‘s economy grew an annualized 4.5 percent in the first quarter of 2018, faster than previously thought, boosted by gains in consumer spending, investment and export, the Central Bureau of Statistics said in a second estimate.
The State Department’s top official on Africa told reporters on Monday that Washington is growing concerned with China’s presence on the continent, particularly the “high rates of indebtedness” incurred by African countries accepting concessionary loans from Beijing.
According to Twitter’s 2017 annual report, the company’s $70 million investment in the audio streaming platform SoundCloud was a huge failure.
UK companies can expect a surge in dealmaking this year as the nation retains its place as the third most favourable destination for companies to invest.
In an in-person meeting in Tokyo on Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced a mammoth cooperation package that will infuse the Philippine economy with billions in infrastructure, business, and public safety initiatives.
At the direction of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Japanese government is preparing “tweetable” financial data for Abe’s upcoming meeting with President Donald Trump.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, is planning on investing at least $7 billion in a display-making plant in the United States, company chairman and chief executive Terry Gou said on Sunday.
General Motors announced Tuesday that it will invest $1 billion in U.S. plants amid pressure from President-elect Donald Trump to keep jobs in the U.S.
The New York Post reports on the latest case from the much-abused EB-5 “investor’s visa” program, which the open-borders lobby routinely insists is working just fine.
