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The Growing Demand For Chocolates-Producers In A Fix To Meet The Market Needs
28.5.2019
The largest producers of the cocoa bean, Malaysia and Indonesia are forced to import more from South America and Africa to meet the growing demand for chocolates in the Asian countries. Peter Jasman, the chairman of Indonesia’s Cocoa Industry Association, mentions that top producers, like...
German Authorities Ask Banks to Keep Aside $5.9 Billion Over Possibility of a Slump
28.5.2019
One thing that has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt is that the German economy is in the middle of a slowdown and industrial growth has been tepid over the past few months. In addition to that, the country’s relatively robust banking industry has also been going through a bit of churn,...
Tencent to Overhaul Overseas Strategy after ‘Honour of Kings’ Failure
28.5.2019
Replicating the success that a mobile game enjoys in one market can be tough when the game is offered to a global audience, and that is what Tencent Holding found out with the failure of the mega-hit mobile game ‘Honour of Kings.’ Before making the game available at a global level, the game...
Facebook and Microsoft Pledge to Help Canada Conduct a Clean Election
28.5.2019
Fake news, automated accounts, and targeted advertising of spurious content to Facebook users have been some of the biggest problems that have affected elections in many democracies across the world, over the past few years. The internet was weaponized in a devastating fashion as the flow of wrong...
Huawei Reviewing Ties with FedEx After Diverted Packages Claim
28.5.2019
One of the big casualties of the trade war between the United States and China has been the Chinese tech giant Huawei. The company has not only been banned from supplying telecom equipment to US companies, but last week it was blacklisted as well, and before long, no American company will...
Alibaba to Launch Massive $20 Billion Listing in Hong Kong as It Looks for More Capital
28.5.2019
When it comes to e-commerce companies, then China’s Alibaba is in a league of its own, and after having become the biggest online retailer and tech company in the world’s second largest economy, it is all set to grow further. However, to fuel that growth, the company has now decided to have...
Lupin Shares Crash Following US FDA Observations About Goa Plant
28.5.2019
Over the past two and a half decades, Indian generic drug companies have become one of the most dominant players in the industry, and in that regard; Lupin Ltd remains one of the most influential. However, as everyone knows, these companies depend on the United States market for a large bulk of...
Finistere Along With 3 Israeli Companies To Invest $100 Million In Food Tech
27.5.2019
Finistere Venture, a food technologies based company along with three other Israeli firms, announced their partnership in investing $100 million in Israel in agrifood startups. Finistere will be joined by OurCrowd, Israel’s largest venture investors, Tempo, a beverage company, and Tnuva,...
South Korean Won Gets Hammered With Increase In Foreign Investments
27.5.2019
The rise in trade by South Korean investors in foreign stocks and bonds in the previous quarter is threatening to push the Won currency further down. An increase of 51 percent was observed in foreign stocks and bond trades by Korean investors in the last three months alone according to data...
Huawei’s Plight To Help Samsung Gain Larger Market Share
27.5.2019
Huawei Technologies has become the centerpiece in the rising dispute between the US and China. With Huawei becoming the second largest seller of smartphones globally, the issues facing the company have taken on a more serious turn. Huawei was initially founded in 1987, following which it expanded...
World’s Biggest Investment Banks to Face Class Action Lawsuit in Australia
27.5.2019
Earlier this month, some of the world’s biggest investment banks were found to have been involved in widespread foreign exchange manipulation by the regulatory authorities in the European Union. At the time, it came to light that some of the traders employed with the biggest names in investment...
Renault Board Presented with Merger Offer by Fiat Chrysler
27.5.2019
In the world of top-level business, mergers and acquisitions often go on to create behemoths that can tide over any crisis in the industry and over the years, many such mergers have happened in the automobile industry. In a new development, it has now emerged that Fiat Chrysler has sent a merger...
Foreign Ownership in IT and Telecom to be Restricted by Japan
27.5.2019
Cybersecurity has been a recurring issue for the most government over the past decade or so and the worries went up several notches when the United States accused Chinese telecom giant of being a vehicle for spying for Beijing. The company was eventually banned and blacklisted, but many other...
Pressure Rises on Chinese Economy as Industrial Profits Shrink for April
27.5.2019
The downturn in the Chinese economy and the shrinking of domestic demand has been one of the biggest stories in international economics for the better part of a year. In addition to that, the turmoil brought upon by the damaging trade war with the United States has had its own effect on...
DeFi and Credit on the Blockchain: Why Loans Are Better When They’re Decentralized
26.5.2019
Decentralized loans: more accessible, more transparent and more controllable
Indian Rupee Rises by 47 Paise Against the Dollar Following Election Results
24.5.2019
When it comes to the markets, stability is something that investors crave, and that is exactly what happened with the elections in India this year. Back in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party had come power on the back of a thumping majority but in 2019, it came back to power with an even greater...
Chilean Mining Giant Codelco’s Copper To Be Hit As Mines Go Underground
24.5.2019
As far as the largest mining companies are concerned, they have the capability of taking big hits over the short term. However, it takes a whole new dimension when a company’s largest mine is out of business due to a restructuring process. That is exactly what has happened with Codelco, the Chilean...
Indian IT Giant Infosys Completes Strategic Deal with ABN AMRO
24.5.2019
One of the most remarkable success stories over the past three decades has been the continued rise of the information technology sector in India and among the many companies that have sprung up; Infosys remains one of the most respected names. Throughout the past few decades, the company has grown...
Wall Street Believes That the Trade War with China is Set to Continue
24.5.2019
The trade war between the United States and China has proven to be the biggest diplomatic and economic issue in the world over the past few months. However, following the escalation of tensions between the two sides over the past few weeks, there is a belief that the trade war is going to persist...
Panasonic Becomes Latest Company to Sever Ties with Huawei
24.5.2019
One of the most incredible fallouts from out of the trade war between the United States and China has been the way in which Chinese tech giant Huawei has found itself pushed into a corner. The US had accused that the company’s telecom equipment is used for spying by the Chinese state and eventually...