People walk inside the Korea Exchange (KRX) building, as stock markets in Asia as a whole have been affected by the intensifying political turmoil over president Yoon Suk Yeol’s role in martial law, in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 9, 2024.

Netflix shot up 14.6% after it reported adding nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter and it topped sales and profit targets. The video streaming service’s expansion into live programming appears to be paying off as it wrapped up its best year ever with more than $40 billion in revenue.

Four of Macau’s six casino names saw a year-on-year retreat in stock value in 2024. They are the Hong Kong-listed: Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd; Sands China Ltd; Wynn Macau Ltd; and Melco International Development Ltd, parent of Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd.

South Korea will tighten regulations on stock market listings to improve the quality and competitiveness, the financial regulator said on Tuesday, in the latest move by authorities aimed at making the domestic stock market more attractive to investors.

Asia-Pacific markets mostly rose Tuesday, as investors awaited greater clarity on policies of U.S. President Donald Trump following his inauguration. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.66% to end the day at 8,402.40.

SINGAPORE shares ended higher on Friday (Jan 17), after the Republic released buoyant key exports data for December. Read more at The Business Times.

The South Korea stock market has moved higher in two of three trading days since the end of the two-day slide in which it had fallen

European markets open higher while Asian stocks are mixed after U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest comments on tariffs raised uncertainty in Chinese markets. Trump said Tuesday he was considering a

SLB helped lead the market after the provider oilfield services delivered bigger profit and revenues for the end of 2024 than analysts expected. It jumped 6.1% after it also raised its dividend by 3.6% and said it’s returning $2.3 billion to its investors by buying back its own stock.

Daily foreign exchange (FX) trading by banks in Korea reached an all-time high in 2024 on increased demand for cross-border trading and transactions of currency-related derivatives amid heightened market volatility,

PARIS - Beauty M&A may be slow Stateside, but global IPO season is about to kick off - again. Initial public offerings were rife in the European beauty space in 2024. Galderma Group, Puig and Douglas Group all floated,