Business

News Hour: Japanese display maker Sharp Corp may start building a $7 billion plant in the United States in the first half of 2017, taking the lead on a project initially outlined by its Taiwanese parent...

News Hour: Standard Chartered Bank has recently launched co-branded credit cards with Grameenphone Ltd. This co-branded credit card is the first of its kind between the largest foreign bank and the largest mobile phone operator in...

News Hour:  The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite hit record levels at the open on Tuesday, while the S&P 500 was less than five points away from hitting another all-time high. Investors are...

News Hour: General Motors Co on Tuesday reported that fourth-quarter net income dropped partly from $500 million in foreign exchange losses, and the automaker forecast flat 2017 profit per share despite hefty stock buybacks. The stock...

News Hour: The price of digital currency bitcoin hit its highest in a month on Tuesday, after a fall in Chinese foreign exchange reserves to their lowest in nearly six years highlighted Beijing’s efforts to control...

News Hour: Fujitsu Ltd’s biggest shareholder is planning to sell about $1 billion worth of the Japanese electronics conglomerate’s stock, part of a plan by the two firms to unwind their cross-shareholdings. The sale comes at...

News Hour: Australia’s central bank held interest rates at a record low of 1.50 percent on Tuesday but soft inflation and growth figures kept the door open for future cuts. The Reserve Bank of Australia slashed...

News Hour: The head of India’s National Commission for Women (NCW) on Monday backed a campaign to outlaw “barbaric” female genital mutilation (FGM), the first official support for the banning of the age-old ritual in the...

News Hour: Oil slipped further below $57 barrel on Monday as a stronger dollar and ample U.S. supplies outweighed OPEC output curbs and rising tensions between the United States and Iran. The dollar fell 0.3 percent...

News Hour: UniCredit began Italy’s biggest corporate share sale on Monday in an attempt to raise 13 billion euros ($14 billion) to rebuild the bank’s capital after a balance sheet clean-up Banks in Italy have been struggling...