The companies, which offer credit to consumers for small purchases, soared in popularity during coronavirus lockdown as people splurged online on new clothes, shoes and home furnishings

Shares in food delivery giant plunged after the state planner called for a cut in fees for restaurants to reduce their costs, while tech stocks were also hit by a warning on metaverse fundraising

The rises came after banks in Heze, a city in eastern Shandong province, eased mortgage requirements for some home purchases

Attorneys for Musk said the Securities and Exchange Commission was propagating "endless unfounded investigations" into Tesla and its boss

The searches were carried out after the Securities and Exchange Board of India levied penalties on the NSE, Ramkrishna and others

The national team's most famous stock market intervention came in 2015, when state funds invested $158 billion to stabilize the market after a rout triggered by a shock yuan devaluation.

The company earned less for the gold it produced and was also hit with higher labour and freight costs due to a tight sea freight market

The bank expects revenue to grow an extra 3% per year as it benefits from rising interest rates as policymakers look to turn off years of cheap funding

The group flagged that a wave of Omicron infections in the country reduced physical traffic at its Kmart Group and Officeworks divisions

The news came as CATL, based in Fujian province, has been trying to ease investor concerns about the recent sell-off of its stock

Kirin said the sale is part of its business portfolio review and that its business tie-up in China with China Resources Enterprise, its JV partner, would continue

Lygend Resources trades laterite nickel ore sourced from miners in the Philippines and Turkey, as well as nickel pig iron from Indonesia