Gaming companies including Tabcorp Holdings Ltd., Entain Plc and Bet365 suffered a setback as an Australian parliamentary inquiry recommended banning all advertising for online gambling in order to decouple betting from sport and reduce financial harm.
Profits at industrial firms in China kept dropping in May, reflecting the impact of soft demand and ongoing factory-gate deflation.
Australia’s first budget surplus in 15 years will be larger than the A$4.2 billion ($2.8 billion) forecast just last month, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said, as elevated commodity prices and a tight labor market bolster revenue.
Two state land plots in Singapore offered for private housing and commercial use each fetched billion-dollar bids from developers, signaling continued robust demand in the property market amid cooling measures and recession fears.
New Zealand Finance Minister Grant Robertson ignored Treasury and Reserve Bank recommendations that the central bank’s employment objective be explicitly designated as secondary to price stability.
A healthy eating habit of adding fish to their diets is getting increasingly more expensive for older adults in Japan.
Bitcoin is hovering around its one-year high as asset manager Fidelity reportedly readies its filing for a spot exchange-traded fund for the digital asset.
Chile’s government will send its latest tax reform proposal to the Senate within three weeks and retains the option of insisting in congress next March as a backup plan, the nation’s finance minister said in an interview.
Samsung Electronics Co.’s chip foundry business is adding production capacity and more advanced manufacturing techniques, aiming to make gains on market leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
Newspaper chain Postmedia Network Canada Corp. is in talks to merge with the owner of the Toronto Star, a deal that would reshape a domestic news industry that’s been crushed by falling revenue.
