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Hong Kong shares extended their winning run into a fourth day on Tuesday as traders tracked a global rally that saw Wall Street chalk up fresh records. The Hang Seng Index rose 0.25 percent, or 72.44 points,...

The launch on Sunday night may have caused an early outage of the Chicago-based CBOE Global Markets’ website. The exchange said that due to heavy traffic on the CBOE Global Markets website. Bitcoin futures jumped more...

Adding to the upbeat sentiment was an agreement by US lawmakers to keep funding the government to avert a painful shutdown. Most Asian markets rose on Monday, tracking fresh records on Wall Street following forecast-busting US...

The memorandum of understanding was signed at the royal palace in the coastal city of Casablanca in the presence of King Mohammed VI and BYD’s chairman, Wang Chuanfu, whose company is backed by US investor Warren...

The NRB Commercial Bank has fired Farasath Ali as its chairman in a major shake-up of the board of directors after Bangladesh Bank flagged it for gross irregularities in releasing loans. Tamal SM Parvez, the new...

Confidence Power Bogra Limited, Confidence Power Rangpur Limited, and Zodiac Power Chittagong Limited will establish the said power plants at an estimated cost of USD 220 million with brand new European engines from MAN and Rolls-Royce....

Having then climbed to $16,666 on Bitstamp at around 0200 GMT on Friday, it tumbled to $13,482 by around 1200 GMT – a slide of more than 19 percent. As of 1320 GMT it had recovered...

Ten minutes before the opening bell, official data showed that Japan’s third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) grew 0.6 percent from the previous quarter, expanding twice as fast as previously estimated. Tokyo stocks opened higher on Friday,...

The gains were driven by rising exports from robust global demand and increased spending by Japanese firms on equipment and facilities, the data showed. Japan is growing twice as fast as previously estimated, official data showed...

According to the latest reports “Bitcoin extended its eye-popping rally on Wednesday, breaking above $12,000 to a record high despite questions about the cryptocurrency’s real value and worries about a dangerous bubble”. Bitcoin received a boost...