Alibaba dives after raised buyback fails to calm antitrust fears

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. raised a proposed stock repurchase program by $4 billion to $10 billion, offering more support to shares battered by a widening antitrust investigation into the country’s most powerful internet corporations. Once hailed as the standard-bearers of China’s economic and technological ascendancy, Alibaba and rivals like Tencent Holdings Ltd. […]

India and UK to finalise early harvest trade deals by 2021, ahead of comprehensive FTA

Post-Brexit, India and UK may finalise trade agreements in about half a dozen areas like pharmaceuticals, fintech, chemicals, defence manufacturing, petroleum and food products by 2021 as the two countries are keen on early harvest deals while continuing negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA), two officials said. India […]