The deal is another shot in the arm for the currently loss-making startup, coming on the heels of a stake sale to, and partnership with, Germany's Volkswagen

Impacts felt by currencies such as the Aussie dollar, and across many sectors such as New Zealand dairy products, shares of luxury goods, to miner BHP and the Las Vegas Sands casino firm

China’s blue-chip CSI300 Index has dropped to nine-month lows, and is down 11% from an April peak

The US commerce secretary said she would tell Chinese officials, "when it comes to national security we don't negotiate. We don't give concessions. We don't compromise"

On Friday, Evergrande said it had "adequately" fulfilled exchange guidance for the resumption of trade of its Hong Kong-listed stock

The country's central bank also said it would stick to the principle that houses are for living in and not vehicles for speculation

Xi was the only state leader personally received by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the airport; in contrast Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was met by Ramaphosa’s deputy

New Delhi will move slowly in considering the tax cut as any lowering of taxes on imported EVs could disrupt the market and upset local players, sources said

Japan’s Nikkei 225 slumped by over 2%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and South Korea’s KOSPI were down 2% and 0.7%, amid fears of more hawkish signals from the Fed later today

TSMC has previously blamed a "lack" of skilled workers for the slow pace of the fab's construction and also lobbied to bring more Taiwanese workers to help finish work the site

The Indian mission was accomplished with a budget of about 6.15 billion rupees ($75 million), less than the cost to produce the 2013 Hollywood space thriller "Gravity”

The landmark deal, signed when Beijing and Washington established diplomatic ties in 1979, needs to be renewed about every five years and is currently set to expire later this week