Hutchison Whampoa's ports unit is looking to raise as much as $5.8 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore, allowing investors to tap into China's booming infrastructure business.
Chinese shares rose on Monday, reversing early losses as Asian markets edged up after last week's dip, with investors gearing up for earnings results from big hitters including banking giant HSBC.
The finance minister announced on Monday a food security bill for 2011/12, a measure that would provide cheap grains for millions of poor but which has sparked worries of a huge fiscal cost.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday presented to parliament India's federal budget for the coming financial year beginning in April.
Swiss commodities trader Glencore has opened up talks with sovereign wealth funds in China and Qatar to bring in a cornerstone investor ahead of its planned listing on the London Stock Exchange, The Sunday Times reported.
Investors in Canada's forestry sector have feasted of late on Chinese demand for lumber and pulp, and a few of them are likely licking their chops at the idea China will also want to buy the mills.
Warren Buffett is going long on America, and investors are likely to take note when markets open on Monday.
On Wall Street they wonder: Was that it? Is the pullback over?
Fighting inflation is a priority for the government in China where rapid price rises and pressure to sharply raise the value of the yuan are a threat to social stability, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday.
Don't bother calling your favorite value investor on Saturday morning -- he or she will be busy devouring every last word of annual wisdom from the guru of that investing discipline, Warren Buffett.
Rwanda has put plans of awarding a fourth mobile phone operator's licence on the ice until subscriber growth and market share distribution stabilises, the industry regulator said on Friday.
The Development Bank of Seychelles (DBS) will issue a five-year bond worth 50 million rupees with a 6 percent coupon, central bank said on Friday.
Long-term South African bonds rose on Friday after a four-day sell-off fuelled by the government's disappointing budget deficit forecast for next fiscal year.
Mozambique will solicit bids for oil and gas exploration from international firms within the next two years, a senior government official said on Friday.
Why did the price of gold hit record highs in 2008? Take a look at the headlines - government bailouts of failed banks, mortgage and credit crises, rising inflation, slowing growth and global insecurity. In order to protect themselves from treacherous financial markets and depreciated paper currencies investors worldwide are turning to gold.
Joe Jackson, the father of late King of Pop Michael Jackson, has invested in a $2 billion, five-star 1,000-room hotel and amusement park in Vietnam.
Gold and Silver Prices failed to hold onto a sharp overnight bounce in London trade on Friday, trading below $1404 and $33 respectively per ounce as volatility in crude oil remained at record levels but world stock markets rose for the first day in six.
Gold held near $1,400 an ounce in Europe on Friday, supported by interest in the metal as a haven from risk as violence flared in Libya, but struggled to maintain traction as some investors cashed in this week's hefty gains.
China's government investors more than doubled their investments in major Japanese blue-chip companies in 2010, the Wall Street Journal said, citing investment advisory firms and people familiar with the matter.
China's Sinopec clinched the second-largest single Chinese liquefied natural gas deal, and ventured for the first time into a foreign unconventional gas asset to feed a domestic boom for the clean fuel.
Robert W. Baird downgraded its rating on shares of MedAssets, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDAS) to neutral from outperform and lowered its price target to $18 from $24, on disappointing fourth quarter results and on annoying 2011, long-term outlooks. MedAssets stock plunged 22.61 percent.
Futures on major U.S. stock indices remained range-bound on Friday ahead of economic data including key GDP figures from the government.
