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India and the US on Tuesday finalised defence deals worth USD 3 billion, and signed three MoUs, including one in energy sector, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that the two countries have decided to take Indo-US ties to comprehensive global partnership level.

Billionaire Warren Buffett says the viral outbreak in China has slowed economic growth, but he remains confident in the long-term future of American business.

Financial markets on Monday ratcheted up bets the U.S. Federal Reserve will be pressed to cut interest rates to cushion a feared hit to economic growth from the spread of the coronavirus, although one official cautioned against expecting the central bank to over-react to short-term market moves.

Affected by new coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, China's mobile phone shipments went down 38.9 percent year on year in January to 20.8 million units, a report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed on Monday.

CLP Holdings Ltd.'s net profit for 2019 decreased 66%, mainly weighed by impairment costs on its Australian business.

Chinese state media is reporting that the lockdown in Wuhan is being eased to allow “stranded personnel” to leave the city if they are not under quarantine or medical observation.

The company has closed a phone factory in Gumi, South Korea until February 24th after confirming that a factory worker was infected with COVID-19. The company told the worker's associates to self-quarantine and will test them for the virus, and will also keep the relevant floor closed until the 25th.

The U.S. government expects China to honor its commitments to buy more U.S. goods under a trade deal signed by the world's two largest economies in January despite the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.

The Tokyo Metropolitan government said it will to cancel or postpone major indoor events planned for the next three weeks as Japan tries to halt the spread of the coronavirus, Jiji newswire reported.

China is expected to cut pension contributions and insurance fees by more than 500 billion yuan ($71.27 billion) this year, government officials said on Thursday, as it seeks to help companies weather the coronavirus outbreak.

Earlier this month, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said it would promote and allow measures that allow airlines to continue to stay afloat as the country’s aviation industry is plagued by the lack of travel resulting from the novel coronavirus that has filled up headlines.

China's one-year loan prime rate (LPR) came in at 4.05 percent Thursday, down from 4.15 percent a month earlier, according to the National Interbank Funding Center.

Electric cars may help automakers achieve a world of zero tailpipe emissions, but the batteries that power them certainly come with strings attached. Namely, cobalt: Mining the element takes a serious toll not only on the environment, but also on the impoverished countries it comes from, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Hong Kong's unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage points to 3.4 percent for the November to January period, the highest level since 2016, as businesses struggled from the anti-government protests and from the disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

Foreign buying of Treasuries in 2019 hit their largest level in seven years, data from the U.S. Treasury Department showed on Tuesday, as Japanese and euro zone investors sought higher-yielding U.S. government debt in a world of negative interest rates.

Bank aiming to slash £3.5bn in costs as part of major corporate overhaul

HSBC has said its profits for 2019 fell by 33%, mainly due to its investment and commercial banking operations in Europe.

Dozens of casinos in Macao, the world's biggest gambling hub, are expected to reopen on Thursday.

Apple has warned of global “iPhone supply shortages” resulting from its Chinese factories being shut because of the coronavirus outbreak.

China's National Health Commission announced on Monday morning that the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mailand China reached 1,770 as of the end of Sunday, up by 105 from the previous day.