According to the Hong Kong-based daily newspaper – South China Morning Post (SCMP), Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has been touring Dutch research institutions to further his interests in farm technologies. The report quoted sources with knowledge of the matter. Since publicly criticizing China’s regulatory structure in a speech last year, the Chinese billionaire has…
Growth in volume driven by a rebound in travel and a better global economic scenario helped the largest payment processor of the world, Visa Inc, to report a quarterly profit that surpassed Wall Street projections. Despite this Visa said that the level of cross-border travel was still much lower than the levels from before the…
Despite clocking lower revenue and profit, American automaker General Motors (GM) posted better than expected results for the third quarter while also predicting that its earnings for the full year of 2021 would be at the high end of its earlier estimates. The global semiconductor scarcity caused the company’s adjusted earnings per share to fall…
A rebound in its jet-engine businesshelpedGeneral Electric Co to report quarterly profits that beat market’s expectations and prompted the company to announce an upward revision to its full-year earnings forecast on Tuesday. However, the industrial conglomerate also issued a warning that it faced a “challenging” operating environment due to the acute issues in the global…
General Motors had pledged to invest $750 million to increase its presence in the very fast growing electric vehicle sector and as a part of this plan, the company will install up to 40,000 electric-vehicle charging stations in the United States and Canada, the company said on Tuesday. It was just a few months ago…
With the global semiconductor crisis slowing down vehicle production and consequently sales, Hyundai Motor Co. of South Korea marginally missed analysts’ profit projections for its latest completed quarter. While announcing the quarterly results, the company also said that it expected it will take a long time for the global chip supply shortage to normalize. A…
Its highest quarterly profits since 2015 were reported by UBS on Tuesday driven by a 23 per cent growth in its fee income from the ultra-rich of the world. The unexpectedly strong income follows four quarters of the bank reporting double-digit percentage net profit growth and comes at a time when fresh plans for its…
According to Barbie creator Mattel, higher prices in the run-up to Christmas have not dampened customers’ appetites for toys. Following increase in costs for transportation and raw material expenses, the price of its toys has been hiked by the company. An 8 per cent growth in sale revenue of the company for the third quarter…
The German luxury auto maker BMW will discontinue making internal combustion engines at its primary factory unit in Munich by 2024, said the company’s chief of manufacturing while speaking at a conference marking the beginning of production of its electric i4 vehicle. In the future, its factories in Austria and the United Kingdom will be…
After a stable third quarter, it was on schedule to achieve cost savings from the integration of data platform Refinitiv, the London Stock Exchange Group said but cautioned that the timing of its technological expenditure could be affected by supply chain bottlenecks. In the three months to the end of September, its pro forma underlying…
