BUSINESS

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index closed higher by 2.40%, witnessing its biggest daily jump in over a month.

Supply key issue as the drop in new builds is now 'really hitting home'.

Engineering conglomerate said it would buy back €3bn of shares over the next three years.

College principal said this was not the first time his students had faced racial profiling.

AB InBev and SABMiller will produce over a third of the world's beers.

IAC's all-cash proposal to acquire Angie's List translates to $8.75 per share.

Greenpeace calls the investments an economic waste and lost chance to spur renewables.

This move is part of its new cost-cutting programme that will include both impairment and restructuring costs.

Various sources claim the hackers have asked for between 10 to 30 bitcoins.

F-Secure's Sense protects everything from WiFi-enabled baby monitors to smart locks.

Clooney is representing his charity Not On Our Watch that was set up with Brad Pitt.

British entrepreneur Willingham spoke at this year's Small Business Awards.

Liberal Democrat disclosed Open Reason was given grants by organisations founded by the businessmen.

UK leads the way with online shopping sales now over 12% of total retail sales.

Rwanda refuted allegations it altered poverty statistics and claimed economy keeps growing.

Armada Collective attacked many Swiss web providers and is now targeting webmail services.

With 31.21m people in work, up 419k from the same quarter in 2014, numbers are good news for Osborne.

The union has donated more than £550,000 to Labour since the general election.

Moody's outlook for China points to continuing slowdown.

Some claim there's only one true sharable cryptographic ledger, and that it is Bitcoin.

Committee backed waiting for full roll-out of living wage before cutting tax credits.

Microsoft is offering Blockchain as a service on the Azure cloud in conjunction with Ethereum developers ConsenSys.

TalkTalk has refused to waive termination fees for customers wanting to leave the provider.

In October, Dell had confirmed the acquisition of EMC including VMware for $67bn.

Sainsbury's reported that like-for-like sales were down by 1.6%, while underlying profits fell by almost 18% to £308m.

Westminster-based think-tank ResPublica warns of impact on NHS.

Nine finance companies including JPMorgan Chase and Fidelity targeted.

The sales that Alibaba generated today in 8 hours is about $2bn more than Netflix's annual sales last year.

Labour grandee and former business secretary backed David Cameron's 'timely and achievable' plan.