Shares of Saga Plc jumped 80% on Tuesday after the British over-50s holidays and insurance specialist laid out plans to raise 150 million pounds ($201.08 million) and bring back former boss Roger De Haan as non-executive chairman.
A stronger pound led London's FTSE 100 lower on Tuesday after the index notched its strongest August in six years on optimism that the worst of the pandemic's economic damage was over.
(RTTNews) - Air China Ltd (AIRC.L) reported Tuesday that its first-half loss before taxation was RMB 13.10 billion, compared to last year's profit of RMB 4.51 billion.
Low yields at home are sending some previously shy European investors into Asia's credit markets, money managers say, lured by the promise of higher returns and a hope that rebounding economies can hold defaults at bay.
French President Emmanuel Macron will mark Lebanon's centenary on Tuesday by planting a cedar tree, the emblem of the Middle East nation that is collapsing under the weight of a crippling economic crisis.
The recovery in Turkey's manufacturing sector continued in August, a survey showed on Tuesday, with expansion easing from a nine-year peak as improvements in customer demand supported increases in output and new orders.
Chinese online education platform Yuanfudao is set to raise $1.2 billion in a new funding round which will value it at about $13 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the issue.
AstraZeneca has expanded its previous agreement with Oxford Biomedica to mass-produce the British drugmaker's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, as it looks to scale-up supply ahead of a possible fast-track approval from the United States.
McDonald's Corp has been sued by 52 Black former franchise owners who accuse the fast-food giant of racial discrimination by steering them to depressed, crime-ridden neighborhoods and setting them up for failure.
Swedish online banking group Nordnet will undergo a strategic review, with a listing of the company being an option, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
Barrick Gold Corp has lost a court challenge in Papua New Guinea over rights to a highlands gold mine and intends to appeal to the country's Supreme Court, the miner said on Tuesday, prolonging a dispute that has halted output as gold prices soar.
A weaker U.S. dollar helped the South African rand gain in early trade on Tuesday, after sliding in the previous session when sentiment was hit by squabbling within the ruling African National Congress (ANC) over corruption.
(RTTNews) - Seabourn announced that it will cancel additional voyages for three cruise ships in its fleet. This applies to Seabourn Ovation, Seabourn Encore, and Seabourn Quest. For Seabourn Ovation, operations pause will be effective through January 3, 2021. For Seabourn Encore
The Philippines will not halt infrastructure projects involving Chinese firms blacklisted by ally the United States and will make its own decisions, not those of a foreign power, the president's spokesman said on Tuesday.
Qantas Airways Ltd said on Tuesday it had issued A$500 million ($369.90 million) of unsecured bonds with a coupon of 5.25% to help strengthen liquidity and replace maturing debt as it deals with a plunge in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic.
South Korean prosecutors indicted Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee on charges of manipulating stock prices and breach of trust in order to cement control of the group, a prosecution official said on Tuesday.
Australia's central bank on Tuesday unexpectedly boosted the size and term for cheap funding to lenders as the economy looked set to post to its worst contraction since the Great Depression due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan's top steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp is seeking overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&As) but not for further M&A deals at home, its president, Eiji Hashimoto, said on Tuesday.