In this article .DJI .IXIC .AXJO .HSI .N225 .SPX Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT 19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on the skyline is the Shanghai Tower (rear). Bernd von Jutrczenka | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Wednesday, continuing their rally despite AI fear...
In this article .DJI .IXIC .AXJO .HSI .N225 .SPX Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT 19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on the skyline is the Shanghai Tower (rear). Bernd von Jutrczenka | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Wednesday, continuing their rally despite AI fears and weak economic data spooking U.S. investors. The U.S. December retail sales report showed that consumer spending was flat , missing the 0.4% monthly gain that economists polled by Dow Jones were expecting. In Asia, investors are assessing the latest data coming out from China. The country's consumer price index rose 0.2% in January from a year earlier, China's National Bureau of Statistics data showed Wednesday. That's below economists' forecast of 0.4% increase in a Reuters poll, a sign of continued deflationary pressure in the absence of stronger stimulus. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was up 1.43%. South Korea's Kospi rose 0.6%, on pace for a third day of gains, while the small-cap Kosdaq was 0.55% higher. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index added 0.13%, while the mainland CSI 300 lost 0.26%. Japan's markets are closed for a public holiday. Overnight in the U.S., the S&P 500 lost 0.33%, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.59% as AI fears took hold on Wall Street. However, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1% to post a closing record of 50,188.14. The index had scored its third consecutive intraday record earlier in the day, a move that comes after it surpassed the 50,000 level for the first time ever last week. — CNBC's Sean Conlon and Sarah Min contributed to this report.
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Q4 sales and earnings beats weren't enough to stop ZoomInfo stock from seeing big sell-offs. ZoomInfo Technologies (GTM 9.77%) stock got hit with strong selling pressures Tuesday. The stock sank 9.4% in the daily session and had been down as much as 20.2% earlier in the day's trading. ZoomInfo published its Q4 results after the market closed yesterday and reported sales and earnings that beat Wall...
Q4 sales and earnings beats weren't enough to stop ZoomInfo stock from seeing big sell-offs. ZoomInfo Technologies (GTM 9.77%) stock got hit with strong selling pressures Tuesday. The stock sank 9.4% in the daily session and had been down as much as 20.2% earlier in the day's trading. ZoomInfo published its Q4 results after the market closed yesterday and reported sales and earnings that beat Wall Street's forecasts. Despite substantial Q4 beats, the stock sold off on underwhelming forward guidance. ZoomInfo breezed by Wall Street's Q4 targets ZoomInfo posted non-GAAP (adjusted) earnings per share of $0.32 on sales of $319.1 million in the fourth quarter. For comparison, the average analyst estimate had called for adjusted earnings per share of $0.28 on sales of roughly $309.3 million. ZoomInfo's revenue increased 3.2% year over year in Q4, and adjusted operating income rose roughly 6% year over year to hit $122.6 million. Despite performance beats in Q4, investors weren't happy with management's forward guidance. Expand NASDAQ : GTM ZoomInfo Technologies Today's Change ( -9.77 %) $ -0.71 Current Price $ 6.61 Key Data Points Market Cap $2.3B Day's Range $ 5.85 - $ 6.96 52wk Range $ 5.84 - $ 12.63 Volume 2M Avg Vol 5.5M Gross Margin 82.12 % ZoomInfo expects little growth this year ZoomInfo is guiding for sales between $306 million and $309 million in the current quarter, representing a significant decline on a sequential quarterly basis. Adjusted operating income is also projected to decline to between $105 million and $108 million. For the full year, management is targeting sales between $1.247 billion and $1.267 billion. -- suggesting a modest improvement over the roughly $1.25 billion in sales recorded last year. Meanwhile, guidance for an adjusted operating profit between $456 million and $466 million calls for annual growth of approximately 3.6% at the midpoint. With disappointing growth forecasts for this year, investors are rerating the business-services speci...
Norovirus has fallen under the spotlight in Hong Kong following a series of food poisoning cases linked to raw oysters in eateries since January, with the latest incident added to the list taking place at the five-star Mandarin Oriental hotel. Between January 18 and Monday, the Centre for Health Protection recorded 37 food poisoning cases affecting 115 people. Of these, 33 cases – involving 101 in...
Norovirus has fallen under the spotlight in Hong Kong following a series of food poisoning cases linked to raw oysters in eateries since January, with the latest incident added to the list taking place at the five-star Mandarin Oriental hotel. Between January 18 and Monday, the Centre for Health Protection recorded 37 food poisoning cases affecting 115 people. Of these, 33 cases – involving 101 individuals – were linked to norovirus. Epidemiological findings showed that all those affected by norovirus had eaten raw oysters during the incubation period. The centre has advised the public to avoid eating raw seafood. Advertisement Authorities also ordered that the supply of raw oysters from two local companies and a South Korean one be suspended after the seafood was linked to 22 cases of suspected food poisoning. The South China Morning Post looks into the virus, debunks myths related to consuming oysters and asks experts how best to protect oneself against it. 1. What is norovirus, and should I be worried about it? Norovirus is contagious and can be spread via contaminated water, food and hand-to-mouth transmission, said Lam Wing-wo, a family doctor based in Hong Kong. Sewage leakage or drainage problems could be factors that contaminate water sources.
China has achieved a breakthrough in its decarbonisation efforts by successfully repurposing a long-haul oil pipeline to transport carbon dioxide, in a trial run that offers a potentially scalable solution to accelerate the nation’s ambitious climate goals. The 27km (16.8-mile) route delivered carbon dioxide to an oilfield in central China’s Henan province earlier this month, according to China Oi...
China has achieved a breakthrough in its decarbonisation efforts by successfully repurposing a long-haul oil pipeline to transport carbon dioxide, in a trial run that offers a potentially scalable solution to accelerate the nation’s ambitious climate goals. The 27km (16.8-mile) route delivered carbon dioxide to an oilfield in central China’s Henan province earlier this month, according to China Oil and Gas Pipeline Network Corporation, also known as PipeChina. In an online statement, the state-owned infrastructure giant said that the trial provided a “replicable and scalable” model for carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). And its success was deemed a significant step in China’s green transition, with an aim to propel CCUS from isolated pilots towards large-scale deployment. Advertisement CCUS comprises a suite of technologies that capture carbon dioxide emissions, such as from power plants or industrial facilities, to prevent the detrimental by-product from entering the atmosphere. The captured gas is compressed, transported and typically reused in industrial applications or stored. The effective deployment of such technologies is seen as crucial in executing Beijing’s “dual-carbon” strategy – aiming to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 . The policy serves as the backbone of the nation’s green transition, driving continuous resources into renewables and carbon-reduction technologies. Advertisement CCUS is a vital decarbonisation tool. By injecting captured carbon dioxide into oilfields, the process not only securely stores the greenhouse gas deep underground within the same impermeable geological formations that have naturally trapped oil and gas for millions of years, but it also facilitates the recovery of additional crude oil – a technique known as enhanced oil recovery, or EOR – thereby boosting production.
As the clock hit midnight, the women held their flame torches aloft and marched into the Dhaka night. “The people have given their blood, now we want equality,” they shouted above the roar of the traffic. For many in Bangladesh, the past few weeks have been a cause for jubilation. The first free and fair elections in 17 years have been promised for Thursday, after the toppling of the regime of She...
As the clock hit midnight, the women held their flame torches aloft and marched into the Dhaka night. “The people have given their blood, now we want equality,” they shouted above the roar of the traffic. For many in Bangladesh, the past few weeks have been a cause for jubilation. The first free and fair elections in 17 years have been promised for Thursday, after the toppling of the regime of Sheikh Hasina in a bloody student-led uprising in August 2024 in which more than 1,000 people died. Opposition figures long persecuted and jailed are now running as candidates, freely holding rallies for the first time in years. The former prime minister is languishing in exile in India and facing a death sentence for crimes against humanity in Bangladesh, and her Awami League party is banned from contesting the election. Women marched in Dhaka at midnight Yet for swathes of women in the country, including those who were at the forefront of the revolution, the hope of the election has become tinged with disappointment and fear amid a resurgence of regressive Islamist politics that it is feared will impinge upon women’s rights in society and the workplace, and a dearth of female candidates in the running. “This was meant to be an election representing change and reform. Instead, we are seeing women being systematically erased and their rights threatened,” said Sabiha Sharmin, 25, as she took part in the midnight march. “We worry this election will throw the country back 100 years.” Among the most oppressed political movements of the Hasina era, when elections were rigged and opponents persecuted, was Jamaat e-Islami, an Islamist party that believes in bringing sharia law to Bangladesh. It was banned and its leaders jailed, disappeared or sentenced to death. Since Hasina’s fall, Jamaat e-Islami has mobilised with unprecedented gusto, positioning itself as a rival to the veteran Bangladesh National party (BNP) that was previously expected to make a clean sweep of the elections – ...