INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Samsung biggest chip investor

The tech giant invested nearly $59.2bn in 2025.

flynas to set up new hub

Five destinations in first phase of operations.

AD Ports Group acquires CLI

CLI is Brazilian agri-bulk terminal operator.

$1.59bn Makkah project awarded

A consortium will develop two districts in the Holy City.

2PointZero posts profit surge

Growth driven by merger consolidation.
  • Washington, United States -- US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened Apple with a 25 percent tariff if the iPhones...

    Trump's sweeping tariffs on major US trading partners have roiled global markets and upended international commerce.

    Trump's comments Friday echo statements he made last week while on a trip to Qatar, urging Apple to bring iPhone production to US shores.

  • Morocco on Monday signed deals with an Emirati-Moroccan consortium for energy and water infrastructure projects, which according to one of...

    The projects aim to "strengthen both water security and energy independence" in Morocco, the signatories said in a joint statement

    The total investment amounts to nearly 130 billion dirhams by 2030, Taqa Morocco said in a separate statement

  • Chinese tech giant Xiaomi will invest 50 billion yuan ($6.9 billion) in developing high-end smartphone chips, the firm's founder said...

    Xiaomi, which sells goods from smartphones to vacuum cleaners and EVs, is one of China's most prominent consumer electronics firms.

    Xiaomi took initial steps into semiconductors for smartphones with the launch of the firm's first in-house chip - the Surge S1 - in 2017.

  • Beijing, China - Factory output in China grew at a faster rate than expected last month, official data showed Monday,...

    Industrial production in the export powerhouse grew 6.1 percent on-year in April, according to figures published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)

    The reading was higher than the 5.7 percent forecast in a Bloomberg survey, but still lower than the 7.7 percent jump recorded for March

  • Muscat, Oman -- The general inflation rate in the GCC countries rose by 1.7 percent at the end of December...

    The increase is primarily driven by a 5.9 percent increase in housing prices and a 2.8 percent rise in the prices of goods and services.

    The culture and entertainment group recorded a 1.8 percent increase, while both the food and beverages group and the education group rose by 1.2 percent each.

  • The S&P 500 has risen the last four sessions, extending the positive momentum after last weekend's trade talks resulted in...

    The broad-based S&P 500 added 0.1 percent at 5,923.30, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index gained 0.2 percent to 19,146.48.

    Broadband and cable company Charter Communications gained 2.5 percent after announcing a deal to acquire Cox Communications for $34.5 billion.

  • Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that Tehran has no objection to US companies operating in the country, including...

    "We have no ban on the economic presence of American companies in Iran," Araghchi said, attributing the lack of US business activity to primary sanctions imposed by Washington

    His remarks come after President Donald Trump said Washington was "getting close" to a new nuclear deal with Tehran to replace the one he abandoned during his first term in 2018

  • After the first meetings between Washington and Beijing since Trump ratcheted up his trade war, the world's two biggest economies...

    The world's two biggest economies agreed in a joint statement to bring their triple-digit tariffs down to two figures and continue negotiations

    China hailed the "substantial progress" made at the talks, held at the discreet villa residence of Switzerland's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva

  • The US and China will Monday give details of "substantial progress" touted by Washington on trade talks aimed at ending...

    It was the first time senior officials from the world's two largest economies have met face-to-face to talk trade since Trump imposed steep new levies on China totalling 145%

    The trade spat between Washington and Beijing has rocked financial markets and raised fears of a global economic slowdown and an inflationary spike in the United States

  • Asian stocks rallied Monday after top Chinese and US officials held "substantial" trade talks at the weekend, fuelling hopes the...

    Investors have been on a rollercoaster ride since Donald Trump unveiled eye-watering tolls on trading partners on April 2

    The US president eventually hiked the measures against China to 145 percent, which were met with retaliatory rates of 125 percent