Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. to enter the front of the New York Stock Exchange on November 11, 2015. Brendan McDermide | Reuters GUANGZHOU, China – China’s market regulator has fined Alibaba and Tencent-backed companies for failing to properly declare past acquisitions to officials, in another sign Beijing is taking a …
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Negotiations for a Brexit trade deal are underway
LONDON – European stocks are expected to open in the mixed region on Monday, as market attention has been focused on negotiations between the UK and the EU on post-Brexit trade deals. According to IG, London’s FTSE is down 7 points at 6,546, Germany’s DX is up 41 points at …
Read More »A meeting of voters to formally elect Biden as the next president
WASHINGTON (AP) – Presidential voters are meeting in the United States on Monday to make a formal choice. Biden as the next president of the country. Monday is set by law for the Electoral College meeting. In fact, voters meet in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to …
Read More »Bird flu has spread to the 10th Japanese province
By Aaron Sheldrick, Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak has spread to new farms and now affects more than 20% of the country’s pre-47 prefectures, officials have ordered clearing after more poultry deaths. File photo: Officers in protective uniforms work on a chicken farm, where an …
Read More »The new method could turn Mars’ water into oxygen
American researchers say they have discovered a method that could use salt water on Mars to make oxygen and fuel. Oxygen and fuel will be important elements to support future human research activities on the Red Planet. Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri developed a new method. The …
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