ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Silicon Valley once dismissed Asia’s tech scene as a land of copycats. Today, those same hubs are driving real innovation—and global investors are taking notice. One of them is B Capital, a venture capital firm managing over $9 billion across nine offices…
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he takes questions from the press after signing an executive order on a deal that would divest TikTok’s U.S. operations from ByteDance from its Chinese owner ByteDance, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 25, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters A foreign-made heavy truck crosses the U.S….
Cityscape and Tokyo Tower at sunset, Tokyo, Japan. © Marco Bottigelli | Moment | Getty Images Shares of Asian pharmaceutical companies fell Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced fresh tariffs on furniture, heavy trucks and pharmaceutical products. Starting from Oct. 1, “any branded or patented Pharmaceutical Product” faces 100% duties, except for companies that…
British oil and gasoline company BP (British Petroleum) signage is being pictured in Warsaw, Poland, on July 29, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Five months ago, British energy major BP was firmly in the spotlight as a prime takeover candidate. Now, not so much. Shares of the London-listed oil giant have climbed more…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stock futures were hovering near the flatline night ahead of crucial inflation data. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 38 points, or less than 0.1%. S&P futures and Nasdaq 100 futures each rose by less than 0.1%. Investors are awaiting…
(These are the market notes on today’s action by Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator. See today’s video update from Mike above.) There aren’t many reasons to believe this market pullback is the Big One, but might it become a bigger one? The setup entering the week opened the way to some retrenchment: The S…
Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposed deal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S. Vice President JD Vance said the valuation is $14 billion. The deal satisfies the requirements of a national security law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok’s…
CEO of Citadel Ken Griffin is interviewed Chairman of the Milken Institute Michael Milken (not pictured) during the Milken Institute Global Conference 2025 in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 7, 2025. Mike Blake | Reuters Citadel CEO Ken Griffin on Thursday knocked the Trump administration for making deals with large corporations to avoid the full…
A growing number of voices have warned about the impact that a “run” on stablecoins could have on traditional financial markets. Just_super | Istock | Getty Images Plans by a consortium of European banks to launch a new stablecoin could draw the region’s crypto-averse investors into the digital assets fold — and potentially speed up…
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy arrives for the verdict in his trial for illegal campaign financing from Libya for his successful 2007 presidential bid, at the Tribunal de Paris courthouse in Paris, on September 25, 2025. Julien De Rosa | Afp | Getty Images Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will soon be imprisoned after he…
