Stocks End Off Lows; S&P 500 and Nasdaq Log Worst Week in 2013
Highlights
India's IT outsourcers are promoting "mini CEOs" capable of running businesses on their own, while trimming down on the entry-level computer coders they normally hire. |
A smaller Asian country is ahead of China in terms of the size of its direct foreign investment into Africa and the gap is widening, according to United Nations data published Monday. |
Chinese executives are going back to school partly because, unlike their Western counterparts, many did not have the chance to study properly earlier in life. The New York Times reports. |
Meet Alejandro Cao de Benós, the only non-Korean employee of North Korea’s foreign ministry. The Spaniard is taking the PR message of North Korea's greatness across Europe. The Christian Science Monitor reports. |
In India, women’s rights have received a lot of attention recently. Too much attention, according to one small but passionate organization, India’s Men's Rights Association, that target the issues men are facing in everyday life, and how they are being discriminated against by society and the law. The New York Times reports. |
Don't let fears of a housing bubble stop you from investing in Chinese real estate, one expert tells CNBC, adding that China remains one of the world's most attractive property markets. |
As Apple's sales outlook slows down, what happens to the tech giant's suppliers? CNBC's Eunice Yoon has more. |
DJs, volleyball, a sand-sculpting contest and concerts - not your usual welcome for the annual BRICS summit. The GlobalPost reports. |
Get a front row seat to the historic changes shaping the world's second-largest economy with the new CNBC show Inside China. |
The weak yen could do more harm than good to Japan's economy, one economist warns. |
The Indian stock market has been one of the biggest laggards this year, but some strategists are betting on a change in fortunes for the country's stocks. |
The BlackBerry Z10 hits store shelves Friday and there's a lot at stake for the company. But with the Android and iPhone -- is there even room for the new BlackBerry? |
From what the world has seen so far of China's new leaders, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang have learnt a thing or two from Western spin-doctors. During his first annual press conference as premier last Sunday, Mr Li's words and demeanor were carefully crafted to present him as a peasant boy done good. The Financial Times reports. |
Extreme bearish forecasts for iron ore prices to drop to as low as $70 a metric ton are an overreaction to the oversupply situation in the sector, said the CEO of the world's fourth largest iron ore producer. |
Google's YouTube said the number of unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month has reached 1 billion. |
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's $4 dumpling lunch in Beijing has won him praise among twitterati. |
Chinese stocks are headed for a correction of up to 15 percent in the next two months, one technical analyst says. |
David Beckham arrived in China on Tuesday as an ambassador to help develop young players as the country tries to clean up its football image after a spate of corruption scandals. |
A watch phone? Sounds like something TV private eye Maxwell Smart would have. But as smartphone sales slow, both Samsung and Apple are said to be working on them. |
North Koreans appear to be having little trouble taking home the latest cameras, flat-screen TVs and other items from China despite U.N. sanctions. |
Asian equities could deliver gains of 20 percent by the end of the year, according to HSBC. |
More Chinese companies are investing in Australia's manufacturing and retail industries than its once sought-after mining sector, a new study by HSBC shows. |
Guaranteed for 25 years, a British bedmaker's Mongolian cashmere mattress "pays off every morning of your life," said a company representative. |
If you follow Chinese politics at all, you'll have heard of a word that's become synonymous with corruption and privilege — "princeling," the offspring of Chinese party officials. However, there are signs that these princelings could soon be replaced — by a new, female generation of "princesslings." The GlobalPost reports. |
Women who drink, long portrayed as less than respectable by Bollywood movies and still wary of entering most watering holes, are becoming big business in socially conservative India. |
Despite Xi Jinping's signal to reform, many experts are skeptical if the son of a revolutionary hero will be able to push for radical change. |
China has bypassed Britain as the world's fifth largest arms exporter, a Swedish think-tank said Monday. |
Economist Joseph Stiglitz says global economies can learn from Singapore's model of social equity. The New York Times reports. |
Bumbling and gaffe-prone, Major General Mao Xinyu has become the laughingstock for a country with increasingly mixed attitudes towards its most celebrated leader. The Global Post reports. |
Fears in China are rife that pollution is out of control after 6,000 dead pigs were cleared from a Shanghai river. |