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UK’s FTSE 100 ended 2021 with its best annual performance in five years on the back of gains in commodity-linked and industrial stocks although the index fell in Friday’s holiday-thinned ...

Stock markets dipped on Friday in thin trading but were set to see in the New Year with double-digit gains for 2021, while oil prices retreated from $80 a barrel following their ...

Gold was set for its worst year since 2015 on Friday as a global economic recovery caused safe-haven flows into the metal to ease and as central banks prepared to raise ...

Emerging market stocks broke a two-year winning run, but were set to end the last day of 2021 on a positive note on Friday boosted by China shares, while Turkey’s ...

Bitcoin close to $70,000, “memecoins” worth billions of dollars, a blockbuster Wall Street listing and a sweeping Chinese crackdown: 2021 was the wildest yet for cryptocurrencies, even by the sector’s volatile ...

Chip company Advanced Micro Devices Inc’s (AMD.O) $35 billion all-stock deal for peer Xilinx (XLNX.O) is now expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, delayed from a ...

Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd (HWT.UL), battered by US sanctions, expects 2021 revenue to have declined nearly 30 per cent and predicted continued challenges in the New Year. ...

The Turkish lira weakened for a fifth consecutive day on Friday, further eroding the big gains it made a week earlier as investors continued to fret about the country’s ...

Sterling hit its highest level against the euro since the end of February 2020 as easing concerns about the economic impact of the pandemic boosted risk-on currencies, while analysts expect more ...

UK shares were subdued on Thursday, after hitting 22-month highs in the previous session, as a surge of COVID-19 cases offset optimism around a “Santa Claus rally” in thin year-end ...

British house prices rose by a stronger-than-expected 1.0 per cent in December from November, capping the biggest full-year rise in prices since 2006, figures from mortgage lender Nationwide showed on Thursday. Economists ...

The spectre of higher interest rates in the United States, slowing growth in China and a strong dollar have this year hammered emerging markets already reeling from the fallout of ...

Turkey’s lira fell 5 per cent on Thursday, extending a four-day slide and eating into big gains last week, as the government struggled to convince savers to ignore the volatility ...

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk has exercised all of his options expiring next year, signaling an end to his stock sales that triggered a fall in the ...

Apple (AAPL.O) said it had placed the southern Indian factory of iPhone assembler Foxconn (2317.TW) on probation after both companies found that some worker dormitories and dining rooms did ...

China will improve copyright protection live streaming, e-commerce and sports events by 2025, the country’s copyright regulator said on Wednesday. Copyright protection will be strengthened and improved in new industries ...

Bitcoin dropped 6.13 per cent to $47,606.92 on Tuesday, losing $3,111.19 from its previous close. Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is down 31 per cent from the year’s high of $69,000 ...

The Turkish lira weakened for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, tumbling 5 per cent and eating further into the huge gains made the previous week, as worries persisted over soaring ...

The Philippines has lifted a four-year-old ban on open-pit mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores, an official said on Tuesday, marking the second landmark policy move this year ...

Paris Hilton commands as much as $1 million a night working as a celebrity DJ, entertaining partiers at clubs in China, Dubai and on the Spanish vacation island of Ibiza. This ...

In May, San Diego-based Emily was feeling flush from a year of double-digit gains earned from trading stocks. Equity options, which some fellow stay-at-home investors were dabbling in, would juice ...

Binance has received in-principle approval from the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) to become a crypto-asset service provider in the kingdom, the company said on Monday. Binance, the world’s ...

Israeli foodtech firm SavorEat (SVRT.TA) on Tuesday launched a plant-based burger system personalized to each customer, one of the first companies to use 3D printing technology to cook food. ...

Turkish Airlines has reached an agreement with its labour union for a pay rise of inflation plus 65 per cent for 2022, the Hava-Is union said on Thursday. The flag carrier will ...