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Mercedes-Benz (MBGn.DE) raised its full-year profit forecast on Wednesday as strong demand for luxury cars and cost savings offset the supply chain bottlenecks that have hampered industry output this year. The German automaker said it now expected group earnings to rise at least 15% this year, compared with a previous …

Japanese shares closed higher for a third day in a row on Wednesday. Still, gains were limited amid a decline in US futures contracts and with local investors wary of unexpectedly weak business results from technology giants such as Alphabet and Microsoft. The Nikkei rose 0.67 percent and hit more …

Turkey’s Competition Board, the competition protection and antitrust body, said on Wednesday (October 26) it had fined Facebook’s owner Meta platforms 346.72 million lira ($18.63 million) for violating competition law. The council added in a statement that it decided that the company obstructed its competitors operating in the field of …

On Tuesday, US stocks closed another US session higher as investors monitored the performance of the US dollar and the declining Treasury yields in addition to fresh US macroeconomic data for extracting clues concerning the status of the United States economy.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 337.12 points higher, or …

General Motors posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings Tuesday while repeating its full-year profit outlook, as higher car prices helped fuel record sales for the biggest U.S. automaker. General Motors said adjusted earnings for the three months ending in September came in at $2.25 per share, up 48.5% from the same period …

Japanese stocks rose on Tuesday, October 25 as electric car maker Nidec Corp. started its earnings season with solid results and boosted hopes that other companies might benefit from the weak yen. The index rose at the beginning of trading today only 0.51%, but ended trading up 1.02%, while the …

US shares rallied for a second straight session while investors focus on some of the world’s biggest companies to report earnings this week. Traders also spiced their expectations and bets on whether the US central bank could slow its pace of interest-rate hiking after digesting negative economic data released on …

Japan’s Nikkei gave up most of the morning’s gains during the overnight session, to close below the 27,000-point level on Monday, as investors worried about the outlook for the Chinese economy. The index ended trading up 0.31 percent at 26,974.90 points. Out of 225 stocks on the index, 133 rose …

US shares surged on Friday after a news report, by WSJ, said the US Fed will likely debate on a smaller interest rate hike in December, raising hopes the central bank may be ready to adopt a less hawkish policy stance.The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 646.73 points, or …

The Chinese yuan fell during Friday’s trading, near its lowest level in 14 years against the dollar, bringing its losses this year to 12.3%. And according to Bloomberg, market watchers expect further yuan weakness after the Communist Party congress ends this weekend, with the central bank loosening its grip on …