France's Alstom, which has agreed to buy Bombardier's transport unit, reported on Thursday a slump of 27% in first-quarter sales as coronavirus lockdown measures slowed rolling stock sales recognition while a traffic decline hit its services and signalling division.
With India's economic growth sputtering, the Reserve Bank of India was expected to maintain a rate-cutting cycle, but an uptick in near-term inflation could give the central bank's Monetary Policy Committee reason to pause for now.
Online classifieds group Adevinta sees its performance picking up faster than expected after taking a hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Norwegian company said on Thursday.
(RTTNews) - European stocks are likely to open lower on Thursday as the number of new coronavirus cases and fatalities continued to mount across the United States, with Texas and Oklahoma recording new highs.
(RTTNews) - Indian shares were marginally higher on Thursday as investors reacted to the latest corporate earnings and data showing that India recorded a trade surplus in June for the first time in more than 18 years.
Australia's FAR Ltd said on Thursday it has received a "good level of interest" in the sale of its 15% stake in the $4.2 billion Sangomar oil and gas project being developed off Senegal.
A group of the world's top oil companies including Saudi Aramco, China's CNPC and Exxon Mobil have for the first time set targets to cut their combined greenhouse gas emissions as a proportion of production, as pressure on the sector's climate stance grows.
The dollar found support on Thursday as simmering Sino-U.S. tensions and weak Chinese consumption data knocked investors' faith in a fairly swift global economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.
(RTTNews) - Asian stock markets are mostly lower on Thursday despite the positive cues overnight from Wall Street and data showing that China's economy rebounded more than expected in the second quarter.
Twitter claims âa coordinated social engineering attackâ caused one of the worldâs largest social media platforms to melt down on Wednesday after prominent celebrity profiles were used to promote a large-scale bitcoin scam.
Twitter said in a series of tweets that hackers targeted âsome ofâ its employees who had access to internal tools, which they used âto take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf.â
The social media platform is looking into what else was impacted, while restoring accounts to their users.
Motherboard, VICE Magazineâs tech section, said it spoke to two sources who took over accounts, who claimed they paid a Twitter insider to manage the takeovers.
Twitter being âhighly centralizedâ led to the hack, said Ben Sigman, CTO at blockchain startup Make Sense Labs.
Twitter employees have âgodmodeâ access to create Tweets from any user, Sigman claimed.
Itâs worth noting all addresses are bench32/Segwit addresses which helps narrow down the wallet and service being used.
Seven Turkish security personnel were killed when a reconnaissance plane crashed in eastern Van province, state-owned Anadolu news agency quoted the interior minister as saying on Thursday.
Taiwan's air, sea and land forces conducted live-fire exercises simulating the repulsion of an invading force on Thursday, with President Tsai Ing-wen saying it showed their determination to defend the democratic and Chinese-claimed island.
HPX Corp., a blank check company targeting a business in Brazil, raised $220 million by offering 22 million units at $10. The SPAC had originally planned to raise $200 million. Each unit consists of one share and one-half of a warrant, exercisable at $11.50.
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Shares in semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), China's biggest chipmaker, more than tripled on Thursday on their Shanghai market debut in one of the most anticipated listings of the year.
Asian shares and U.S. stock futures fell on Thursday, weighed down by concern about deteriorating U.S.-China relations and the economic cost of a resurgence in coronavirus infections that is prompting some places to reimpose containment measures.
China has approved an early-stage trial in humans of German firm BioNTech's experimental COVID-19 vaccine, its local partner Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical said on Thursday.
(RTTNews) - Indian shares look set to open flat to slightly higher on Thursday as investors react to positive trade data and encouraging earnings news from Infosys.
Australia's unemployment rate in June climbed to the highest in 22 years as workers re-entering the workforce were unable to find jobs, official data showed on Thursday.