The story was one of the saddest I have read in ages. The World Bank’s chief economist ordered his staff to write more clearly, shut them up whenever they banged on interminably in presentations, and insisted all reports were short and lu...
A bond sale by the Shenzhen-listed arm of embattled company LeEco has been cancelled, after the group was asked to address regulators’ concerns about the health of its financials. 处于困境的乐视(LeEco)旗下深圳上市公司的一笔债券发行遭到取...
James Comey, the ousted FBI chief, accused the White House of telling lies about him and the agency in gripping testimony to Congress that is likely to undermine President Donald Trump and fuel the investigation into alleged collusion betw...
SoftBank is buying robotics group Boston Dynamics — the makers of the bipedal Atlas, the jumping Sand Flea and the animal-like BigDog, Spot and Wildcat robots — from Alphabet, more than a year after Google’s parent first put the unit up...
At least 10 students lost their chance to attend Harvard College after posting obscene memes to a private Facebook chat, the main Harvard student newspaper reported. 据哈佛大学校报报道,至少10名学生因在脸书私聊小组中发布“猥琐表情”而失去...
The Hong Kong Court of Appeals has upheld a $3m fine for rating agency Moody’s over research it published in 2011 that flagged companies in China. 香港上诉法院(Court of Appeals)维持了对评级机构穆迪(Moodys)处罚300万美元的裁决,原因是该机构...
China’s Alibaba is forecasting annual revenue growth of 45 to 49 per cent this year, a target that exceeds analysts’ estimates by 10 percentage points and elicited gasps of “wow” and loud clapping from investors at the ecommerce group...
A fierce debate is under way among bond market specialists in Asia. Some believe the reg-ion’s markets are at last coming of age, but others fear the current boom will turn out to be shortlived and that there will be a return to their nor...
It was supposed to be Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Tesla and Disney all rolled into one, and its US debut last October was billed as “a historical moment in tech and consumer culture” comparable to the day the iPhone maker or Google went publ...
The US is a rogue superpower. Its decision last week to renounce participation in the climate agreement reached in Paris in December 2015 underlined this reality. The question is how to respond. 美国是一个流氓超级大国。它在上周决定退出2015...