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Chinese online retailer JD.com said on Friday that it won a lawsuit against rival Alibaba, which was fined 1 billion yuan ($140.68 million) for monopolistic practices.
European shares advanced on Friday, with media and energy companies among the top gainers, setting the index up for strong yearly gains on hopes of a softer monetary policy from major central banks next year.
Norway's central bank said on Friday it will sharply reduce its purchase of foreign exchange for the sovereign wealth fund in January, cutting it to 350 million Norwegian crowns ($34.38 million) per day from 1.4 billion previously.
Italy's government late on Thursday dropped a draft proposal that would have extended until the end of February tax breaks of up to 50% on the wages of sport clubs' new signings from abroad, drawing criticism from the country's top soccer league.
Naomi Osaka said motherhood had given her a new outlook and the former world number one hoped to inspire her daughter Shai when she returned to the WTA tour at the Brisbane International that begins on Sunday.
Pakistan captain Shan Masood rued his side letting Australia off the hook at key moments in the second test but was taking plenty of positives out of the 79-run defeat at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday.
(RTTNews) - European stocks edged higher on Friday and were set to post their best annual gain since 2021 on hopes that global central banks led by the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates next year.
Chinese and Hong Kong stocks ended 2023 as the world's worst-performing equity markets, with losses exceeding 10%, although they recorded their best week in five months.
Signa Development, a key division of European property company Signa, filed for insolvency on Friday in a Vienna court with debts of around 1.16 billion euros ($1.28 billion), the KSV creditor protection association said.
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) sold foreign currency worth 37.63 billion Swiss francs' ($44.73 billion) in the third quarter, the central bank said on Friday, as its recent efforts to boost the Swiss franc to curb imported inflation neared the end.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) sounded out Japan about holding an Esports Games in 2026, Kyodo news agency reported on Friday citing several sources.
(RTTNews) - Asian stocks ended mixed in muted trade on Friday, the last trading session of 2023. The dollar looked set to end 2023 with a loss, keeping gold prices on track for their best year in three.
WisdomTree, Inc. WT shares soared 6.4% in the last trading session to close at $7.13. The move was backed by solid volume with far more shares changing hands than in a normal session. This compares to the stock's 3.9% gain over th
Spain's 12-month inflation rate inched down to 3.1% in December as fuel prices decreased and food prices stabilised, from 3.2% in the period through November, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Friday.
There's not much time to get over the New Year's partying: the most closely watched U.S. economic release and key euro area inflation data are on the calendar in the week ahead, suggesting a busy start to 2024.
Kenya's economy grew 5.9% year-on-year in the third quarter of this year, compared to 4.3% growth in the same quarter of 2022, official data showed on Friday.
Chinese lawmakers on Friday weighed in on a fiery online debate on whether fireworks should be used to ring in the Lunar New Year in February, saying a total ban on pyrotechnics in the country credited with inventing them would be hard to implement.