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Airbus, Boeing announce $20b in orders as Paris Air Show takes off
Airbus and Boeing got their sales war off to a flying start at the world's premier air show near Paris on Monday with nearly $20 billion (18 billion euros) in orders.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM
With CEO shakeup, Twitter under pressure to please advertisers
Twitter Inc's next chief executive officer faces a crucial challenge as the company seeks to appease Wall Street after last week's management shakeup -- helping disaffected advertisers connect with users.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Standard Bank plans big
Even a lucrative career path cannot impede the spirit of entrepreneurship, and Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed, chairman of Standard Bank, a local private bank, has proved this as he groomed himself as an entrepreneur in banking, coming from another sector.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Chinese taxi app raising $1.5b to battle Uber
China's top taxi hailing app backed by tech giants Alibaba and Tencent will raise at least $1.5 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, as the company gears up to take on Uber in the country's expanding transportation market.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Russia cuts interest rate further in bid to stir economy
Russia's Central Bank on Monday cut its key interest by one point to 11.5 percent as it tried to bolster an economy battered by Western sanctions and lower oil prices.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM
India gives loans to sugar mills to help clear $3.3b owed to farmers
India has approved interest-free loans for cash-strapped sugar mills to help them pay nearly 30 percent of the record $3.3 billion they owe cane farmers, many of whom are struggling with huge debts as the first country-wide drought in six years looms.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
China auto sales down slightly in May
China's auto sales fell slightly on a year-on-year basis in May, an industry group said Wednesday, as a slowing economy prompts manufacturers to cut prices and trim production in the world's largest car market.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
StanChart needs to strengthen finances: new chief executive
Standard Chartered's new chief executive Bill Winters wants the Asia-focused bank needed to strengthen its finances, simplify and restructure to achieve better returns, he said in a letter to staff on his first day in charge.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
EU business confidence in China at new low: survey
European companies are losing confidence in China's economy, a lobby group survey said on Wednesday, with many firms planning to lay off staff as Beijing struggles to boost growth and embarks in an anti-monopoly drive.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Alibaba won't fight for US market share
Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba Group Holding Ltd does not want to fight for US market share but instead hopes to help small US businesses sell more goods in China, Executive Chairman Jack Ma said.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Facebook earns 51pc of ad revenue overseas
Overseas markets bring in more advertising revenue than the United States for Facebook Inc, amounting to 51 percent of global ad sales in the first quarter, with growth in Asia the fastest in the world at 57 percent, company executives told Reuters.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Britain wants law to guarantee budget surplus
Britain's finance minister George Osborne will use next month's post-election budget to push ahead with new laws to force governments to run a surplus.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Iceland central bank raises rates, first time since 2012
Iceland's central bank said Wednesday it had raised its interest rates for the first time since November 2012, citing the risk of rising inflation as an economic recovery accelerates after a devastating crash.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Airlines grapple with rich, poor divide in global emissions scheme
Diplomats working to reduce carbon emissions from passenger planes globally may give some developing countries more leeway to meet new rules, a key official with the world's main airline industry group said on Tuesday.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
EU rejects Greek plan as Tsipras- Merkel meeting in doubt
The EU scathingly rejected Athens's new bailout reform plan Wednesday, throwing into doubt a crunch meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the leaders of Germany and France aimed at ending the crisis.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Falling yen raises spectre of 'currency war' in Asia
From South Korea to Indonesia and India, monetary authorities are preparing to let their currencies weaken as a falling Japanese yen makes their economies uncompetitive, and drags them into what some policymakers are calling a "currency war".
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Modi to launch India's biggest labour overhaul in decades
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is preparing to launch the country's biggest overhaul of labour laws since independence in a bid to create millions of manufacturing jobs, at the risk of stirring up a political backlash that could block other critical reforms.
9 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Gulf expat workers send home $100b
Foreigners working in the energy-rich Arab states of the Gulf sent more than $100 billion in remittances to their home countries last year, an economic report showed Tuesday.
9 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Airlines profit but Europe, Latin America lag behind
As fuel prices drop and more planes fly filled to capacity, North America is leading the airline industry in profits while much of the world still struggles, officials said Monday.
9 June 2015, 18:00 PM
China inflation falls to 1.2pc
Chinese inflation fell to 1.2 percent in May, data showed Tuesday, the latest sign that growth in the world's number two economy is stalling and suggesting more monetary easing may be on the way.
9 June 2015, 18:00 PM