Combined profits for listed Chinese brokerages dropped 34% in 2022 and the lacklustre recovery this year has already spurred some companies to cut jobs
The UAE has become a key trade hub for Russian gold since sanctions disrupted Russia's more traditional export routes.
Asia stocks sink to two-month low, with Hong Kong down 2%, Sydney, Shanghai and the BSE Sensex all lower on Thursday. The Nikkei was the key outlier once again, rising nearly 0.4%.
Musk's comment represents a shift in stance for Tesla, which saw talks with the Narendra Modi-led government hit a deadlock last year
South Korea's Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's top two makers of memory chips, have invested billions of dollars in chip factories in China
Ties between Russia and China have reached an "unprecedented high", Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said during his trip to Beijing on Wednesday
Japan’s benchmark saw a second successive drop after reaching 33-year highs last week while Hong Kong’s main index tracked the global sell-off too
India’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
US tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
Despite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
The Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.