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Stan Chart Revenues

Apple is getting support from a perhaps unlikely source -- Chinese state media -- over the safety of its mobile payments.

As foreign investigations into 1MDB gather pace, efforts at home to probe alleged corruption at the troubled state investment fund are facing roadblocks.

Stan Chart 2015 Profits

While some companies consider aerial delivery drones, Starship Technologies has developed an automated driverless suburban delivery system. The company is testing the robot this summer and aims to make the first commercial delivery by 2017.

Commodities have been an unloved asset class for a while, but some have had a pretty good year so far.

A recent rally in global stocks halted as commodity prices retreated.

The broad collapse in commodity prices has global mining companies abandoning the “diversified miner” model—based on the idea that owning enough types of commodity would keep profits healthy even if prices for one dipped.

Shares in Standard Chartered fell more than 5% after the Asia-focused bank said earnings would “remain subdued” this year as it reported a $2.36 billion net loss for 2015 on soaring bad loans.

There is fresh trouble brewing for Nestlé as its challenge to a dogged rival in the multibillion-dollar coffee-pod market is tossed out by Europe’s main patent authority.

India’s Tata Motors Ltd. has renamed its Zica car, weeks after the unveiling of the auto coincided with an outbreak of a similar-sounding virus linked to babies being born with undeveloped brains.

Big European telecom companies are renewing their push for new rules that would help them better compete with Silicon Valley, despite efforts for conciliation from tech giants including Facebook.

Noble Group has capitulated on the price of coal. And in the process, it has also capitulated on a long-standing criticism of the company.

The world's largest mining company has announced a $5.7 billion first-half loss and slashed its dividend. Where do miners like BHP Billiton go from here? Photo: Getty

In the past year and a half, few smartphone markets have shifted as quickly as China’s—and few smartphone makers were caught as flat-footed by those changes as Lenovo Group Ltd., a technology pioneer in the world’s most populous nation.

Satellite images suggest Beijing has been building radar installations on the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands, in a move that would improve its military power in the region.

The latest international sanctions on North Korea, a response to recent nuclear and rocket tests, are meant to add to the pressure on the country to drop its weapons programs.

An augmented reality vehicle built by Accenture Digital using Google’s Project Tango developer kit shows how technology can help consumers interact with a full-scale virtual version of the car. The car was unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Heading into Tuesday's caucus, Donald Trump has told Nevadans he is carrying momentum from his recent wins in South Carolina and New Hampshire, but that voters should consider the race a tie so they will go out and vote.

Tribune Publishing’s chief executive Jack Griffin has been ousted less than three weeks after he helped secure a substantial cash infusion from a private investor who became the company’s new board chairman.

In the past year and a half, few smartphone markets have shifted as quickly as China’s—and few smartphone makers were caught as flat-footed by those changes as Lenovo Group Ltd., a technology pioneer in the world’s most populous nation.

Here's today's WSJ City newsletter, bringing you the latest updates on business, finance and the economy from London.

Millions of people in Pakistan and elsewhere are expected to tune in to the final of Pakistan’s first Twenty20 cricket league Tuesday night, officials said, when Islamabad United take on the Quetta Gladiators, the unexpected stars of the month-long championship.

At least for some Americans, India is already the world's heaviest economic hitter.

Police on Monday arrested three people they described as local militants over the beheading of a Hindu priest in northern Bangladesh, the latest in a series of deadly attacks on foreigners and minority faith groups in the Muslim-majority country.