Anne Tse, Asia Pacific CEO at PepsiCo, discusses how the company is mitigating the geopolitical and cost pressures by sourcing most ingredients locally. She also says PepsiCo is deploying artificial intelligence across its operations in China and beyond to improve efficiency. She speaks with Stephen Engle at the China Development Forum in Beijing. (Source: Bloomberg)
Anne Tse, Asia Pacific CEO at PepsiCo, discusses how the company is mitigating the geopolitical and cost pressures by sourcing most ingredients locally. She also says PepsiCo is deploying artificial intelligence across its operations in China and beyond to improve efficiency. She speaks with Stephen Engle at the China Development Forum in Beijing. (Source: Bloomberg)
(RTTNews) - The Japanese stock market is trading sharply lower on Monday, reversing the losses in the previous session, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street on Friday, with the Nikkei 225 plunging 4.7 percent to below the 51,000 mark, with strong losses across most sectors led by exporters, technology and financial stocks amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East. The benchma...
(RTTNews) - The Japanese stock market is trading sharply lower on Monday, reversing the losses in the previous session, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street on Friday, with the Nikkei 225 plunging 4.7 percent to below the 51,000 mark, with strong losses across most sectors led by exporters, technology and financial stocks amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is down 2,413.29 points or 4.52 percent at 50,959.24, after hitting a low of 50,902.10 earlier. Japanese shares ended sharply lower on Thursday ahead of the holiday on Friday. Market heavyweight SoftBank Group is tumbling almost 5 percent and Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing is slipping almost 4 percent. Among automakers, Honda is losing more than 3 percent and Toyota is declining more than 3 percent. In the tech space, Advantest is plunging almost 7 percent, Screen Holdings is tumbling more than 6 percent and Tokyo Electron are sliding more than 4 percent. In the banking sector, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial is declining almost 4 percent, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial is plunging almost 6 percent and Mizuho Financial is sliding almost 5 percent. The major exporters are lower. Mitsubishi Electric is tumbling more than 7 percent, Canon is down almost 2 percent, Sony is losing more than 2 percent and Panasonic is sliding almost 6 percent. Among the other major losers, Mitsui Kinzoku and Renesas Electronics are plunging more than 9 percent each, while Mitsubishi Materials and Sumitomo Electric Industries are tumbling almost 9 percent each. Ebara, Dowa Holdings, Lasertec, Resonac Holdings and Sumitomo Metal Mining are sliding almost 8 percent each, while Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ibiden, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Shin-Etsu Chemical and Mitsui Chemicals are slipping more than 7 percent each. Murata Manufacturing is declining almost 7 percent. Conversely, there are no other major gainers. In the currency market, the U.S. dollar is trading in the lower 159 yen-range on Monday...
加航客機降落美國紐約機場與消防車相撞 正副機長罹難多人傷 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】加拿大航空快運一架客機降落美國紐約拉瓜迪亞機場時與消防車相撞,正副機長死亡,多人受傷。 網上流傳照片,客機機...
加航客機降落美國紐約機場與消防車相撞 正副機長罹難多人傷 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】加拿大航空快運一架客機降落美國紐約拉瓜迪亞機場時與消防車相撞,正副機長死亡,多人受傷。 網上流傳照片,客機機頭包括駕駛室嚴重損毀,殘骸垂吊至地面,機尾著地。出事的加航快運客機編號AC8646,屬龐巴迪CRJ-900型號,載有76名乘客和機組人員。客機由加拿大蒙特利爾起飛,周日接近午夜降落紐約拉瓜迪亞機場後撞向一輛駛過跑道的消防車,機場暫時關閉。
Iran on Monday faces a deadline by US President Donald Trump to open up the crucial Strait of Hormuz or face a major US assault on power plants, as Israel warned of weeks more of war. Israel also gave the clearest signs yet it intends a ground campaign into Lebanon, destroying a key bridge as it vows to crush Hezbollah, the Shia Muslim movement backed by Iran. Trump, after enthusiastically backing...
Iran on Monday faces a deadline by US President Donald Trump to open up the crucial Strait of Hormuz or face a major US assault on power plants, as Israel warned of weeks more of war. Israel also gave the clearest signs yet it intends a ground campaign into Lebanon, destroying a key bridge as it vows to crush Hezbollah, the Shia Muslim movement backed by Iran. Trump, after enthusiastically backing Israel in the war the two countries launched on February 28, is under political pressure as fuel prices rise, the result of Iran’s attempts to retaliate in the oil-rich Gulf. Advertisement Trump on Saturday threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it did not within 48 hours end its partial blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway into the Gulf through which one-fifth of the world’s oil flows. A satellite image showing the Strait of Hormuz. Photo: Nasa via dpa The deadline , based on the time of his social media posting, would be 23.44 GMT, early morning Tuesday in Iran and 7.44am Hong Kong time, and Monday evening in Washington. Advertisement Iran’s military command responded defiantly, saying that if Trump goes ahead, it would strike Israel’s “power plants, energy and information and communications technology infrastructure” - along with power plants in regional countries hosting US bases and companies with American shareholders.
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. fell 7.3%, the largest intraday decline since August 2025, after the company said it had ended the development of an experimental drug for certain diseases that cause muscle weakness. The decision doesn’t affect Chugai’s obesity drug development and isn’t expected to impact its earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending December, the Japanese drugmaker said in a stateme...
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. fell 7.3%, the largest intraday decline since August 2025, after the company said it had ended the development of an experimental drug for certain diseases that cause muscle weakness. The decision doesn’t affect Chugai’s obesity drug development and isn’t expected to impact its earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending December, the Japanese drugmaker said in a statement Monday. Chugai’s announcement comes days after parent Roche Holding AG notified patients with spinal muscular atrophy and people with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy that it was halting work with the experimental compound emugrobart in both those diseases. The Swiss drugmaker said it still plans to keep studying emugrobart for its muscle-growth potential during weight loss. Roche has pointed to emugrobart as a key piece of its effort to help people preserve muscle as they lose weight — one way the company could differentiate itself as it tries to become a top-three player in obesity. Read More: Roche Pursues Muscle Study for Obesity After Halting Other Work Roche is testing the experimental muscle drug together with Eli Lilly & Co. ’s blockbuster Zepbound in a 48-week study that’s expected to deliver initial results this year.
倫敦猶太志願團體4救護車遭縱火 警追緝3名黑衣蒙面人 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】英國倫敦有猶太志願救護團體的4輛救護車遭縱火,無人受傷,正追緝3名疑犯。 救護車焚燒引起爆炸,消防凌晨1時許接報...
倫敦猶太志願團體4救護車遭縱火 警追緝3名黑衣蒙面人 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】英國倫敦有猶太志願救護團體的4輛救護車遭縱火,無人受傷,正追緝3名疑犯。 救護車焚燒引起爆炸,消防凌晨1時許接報,在倫敦北部社區4部隸屬猶太志願救護團體的救護車起火,車上部分氧氣樽發生爆炸,鄰近建築物有窗戶受損,約30人要疏散。警方翻查監控片段,3名身穿黑衣的蒙面人走到救護車旁邊後便起火,之後逃跑,警方循反猶太主義仇恨犯罪方向調查。首相施紀賢稱深感震驚,強調絕不容許反猶太主義。
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing Hong Kong is set for a hot and damp week ahead, with the city’s forecaster predicting relative humidity to reach as high as 95 per cent from Wednesday as seasonal coastal mist moves in. The Observatory said on Monday that daytime temperatures would rise to 28 de...
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing Hong Kong is set for a hot and damp week ahead, with the city’s forecaster predicting relative humidity to reach as high as 95 per cent from Wednesday as seasonal coastal mist moves in. The Observatory said on Monday that daytime temperatures would rise to 28 degrees Celsius (82 Fahrenheit) later this week as a band of cloud affected the Guangdong coast and winds weakened. Advertisement “Winds are expected to be weak over Guangdong in the latter part of this week. It will be hot during the day. Under the influence of a trough of low pressure, there will be a few showers over southern China early next week,” the forecaster said. According to the nine-day forecast, the city will experience a spell of warm and increasingly humid weather as an anticyclone strengthens over the South China Sea. Advertisement The week will start with mainly fine and sunny conditions on Monday and Tuesday, with temperatures reaching highs of 27 degrees Celsius, the Observatory said.
Japan’s government bonds fell on Monday morning, pushing yields back toward multi-decade highs, as concerns mount that the widening conflict in the Middle East will stoke inflation. Futures dropped as much as 59 ticks to 130.62, while the 10-year bond yield rose six basis points to 2.32%, near its highest level since 1999 that it hit in January. The five-year yield jumped 5 basis points to 1.72%, ...
Japan’s government bonds fell on Monday morning, pushing yields back toward multi-decade highs, as concerns mount that the widening conflict in the Middle East will stoke inflation. Futures dropped as much as 59 ticks to 130.62, while the 10-year bond yield rose six basis points to 2.32%, near its highest level since 1999 that it hit in January. The five-year yield jumped 5 basis points to 1.72%, taking it to within a whisker of its highest since its debut. The moves in Japan follow US Treasury yields, which are perched at their highest in months after a third straight week of bond losses . Tensions in the Middle East show no signs of easing, with President Donald Trump issuing a 48-hour ultimatum to Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on its power plants, a deadline that expires Monday evening in New York. The rise in yields and oil prices is feeding into yen weakness even after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda kept the possibility of an April rate hike on the table at the central bank’s policy meeting last week. Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said recently that authorities are fully prepared to take action against currency moves if needed. “The simultaneous rise in interest rates and depreciation of the yen can be interpreted as the market pressuring the BOJ to raise rates,” said Rinto Maruyama , FX and rates strategist at SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. “We need to closely monitor whether the BOJ will actually decide to raise rates based on this.”
Uncertainty is what markets hate most, and artificial intelligence (AI) has brought it to software stocks in full force. Toast (TOST +0.02%) is down more than 40% from its summer high, swept up in a sell-off that's erased nearly $1 trillion from the industry this quarter. Some of the sharpest criticism is now coming from the same venture capitalists who helped fund the software-as-a-service (SaaS)...
Uncertainty is what markets hate most, and artificial intelligence (AI) has brought it to software stocks in full force. Toast (TOST +0.02%) is down more than 40% from its summer high, swept up in a sell-off that's erased nearly $1 trillion from the industry this quarter. Some of the sharpest criticism is now coming from the same venture capitalists who helped fund the software-as-a-service (SaaS) boom. Toast built the operating system that roughly one in five small- and mid-market restaurants in the U.S. use to run their businesses. It bundles terminals, payments, online ordering, and payroll into one system. Once it's installed and the staff is trained, switching costs become real for the whole operation. The company added a record 30,000 net locations last year, and for the independent restaurant owner, the system is hard to walk away from. The build-versus-buy decision isn't as clear for a national chain as it is for a smaller operation. The growth story has an enterprise problem The next leg of growth is expected to come from restaurant chains, international markets, and retail. Together, those segments currently account for about 5% of annual recurring revenue. The company's biggest customers so far are sit-down chains like Applebee's and TGI Friday's, not fast food. McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, and Domino's already built their own. Meanwhile, the company's helping its own customers get started with the recent launch of its AI assistant, Toast IQ. The tool quickly performs tasks and analyzes data to aid owners and staff in making quick decisions. Advancements in AI are lowering the cost and timeline for building software solutions, and the customers Toast needs most are the ones most capable of doing it themselves. A family diner wants one vendor and less hassle. A national chain with an engineering team wants flexibility, and committing to proprietary hardware when the software landscape could look different in three years is a tough sell. Toast's hardware bundle...