Blackstone plans to double its investments in India to $100 billion within five years, with chief operating officer Jonathan Gray describing the country as the firm’s best-performing market and expressing confidence in
The United States has introduced a ban on the import of new humanoid and four-legged robots, citing national security concerns linked to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and supply chain resilience. The measure, announced
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Apple’s incoming chief executive, John Ternus, has pledged to build on the company’s growing momentum in the entertainment sector when he takes over leadership of the iPhone maker in September, signalling continuity
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The Indian rupee is expected to hold above the 96-per-dollar mark when trading opens on Tuesday, with sustained intervention by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and a decline in global oil
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Asian stock markets fell sharply on Tuesday, led by heavy losses in semiconductor shares, as investors grew increasingly concerned about the enormous funding requirements of the artificial intelligence boom. At the same
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A former JPMorgan Chase banker has expanded his lawsuit against the United States’ largest bank, filing an amended complaint that adds new defendants and fresh allegations of racial discrimination, sexual coercion and
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Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo resigned on Monday, citing personal reasons that were not publicly disclosed, setting in motion the formal legal process to appoint a new head of Indonesia’s central bank.
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Blackstone, KKR and Brookfield have agreed a $16 billion deal to acquire a stake in Kuwait’s national oil pipelines network, marking the largest foreign investment in the Gulf state’s history and providing
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Private off-market transactions are becoming an increasingly significant feature of Spain’s luxury real estate sector, where multimillion-euro properties are sold discreetly to carefully vetted buyers. Driven by demands for privacy from wealthy
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Paramount has suspended its proposed acquisition of Warner for nearly a year while legal challenges to the deal continue in the United States. The decision follows a temporary court order halting the
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Vietnam is preparing to introduce sweeping new restrictions on the use of social media by children under the age of 16, according to a draft decree reviewed by Reuters, marking the country’s
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Swiss chocolate manufacturer Lindt has been sued in a United States federal court over allegations that it relies on child labour in its cocoa supply chain while presenting itself as a company
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India’s private sector expanded at its slowest pace in more than four years in July, as a marked slowdown in the country’s dominant services sector weighed on overall business activity despite stronger
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China’s leading memory chip manufacturers, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC), are emerging as increasingly influential players in the global semiconductor industry, using strong demand for memory chips
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Armenia is undertaking a sweeping transformation of its armed forces, replacing decades of near-total dependence on Russian military equipment with weapons and defence partnerships spanning India, France, China, Iran and the United
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The brutal killing of four migrant farm workers in Calabria has reignited scrutiny of Italy’s illegal labour recruitment system known as “caporalato”, with social organisations warning that the practice continues to expose
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