Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk thinks that the company’s market capitalization could equal the one of Apple Inc.’s in 10 years, says MarketWatch. Musk made the comments on a conference call with analysts following Tesla’s unexpected quarterly loss...

China's 1.3 billion citizenry is about to embark on the biggest movement of people in the world to celebrate the Lunar New Year with family and friends. Factories, schools, government offices - everything reminding of work - will be closed...

"We cannot go back to the era of bailouts," said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, as MPs debated and approved a government programme that sets this country on a potential collision course with the rest of the eurozone. "That would mean the end of popular sovereignty...

Egypt will join Russia-led Eurasian free trade zone, which includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi announced at a joint news conference with Vladimir Putin...

Chinese telecom device maker Huawei announced in Xi'an that the company has completed the construction of a network functions virtualization open lab with an initial investment of over USD5 million...

The tech giant has become the first company to reach a market value of $US700 billion, as news of its gains in the smartphone market and soon-to-arrive smartwatch boosted its shares...

How much is a good website domain name worth these days? An insider from Qihoo 360 confirmed that the company has invested USD17 million, which is about CNY110 million, to acquire the top-level domain 360.com. This top-level domain was previously owned by telecom carrier Vodafone...

US chipmaker Qualcomm has agreed to pay $975m to Chinese authorities to terminate a 14 month anti-trust investigation into its patent licensing practices...

Russia's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said the country will ratify an agreement on the New Bank for Development set up by BRICS before the end of this month or at the beginning of March. Other participants will ratify the agreement later, Siluanov said, quoted by TASS...

Britain’s factories kept their slow recovery in the run up to Christmas. But the rise in manufacturing output failed to offset falls in mining and energy, leaving industrial production down 0.2% in December, says The Guardian...

The shopping-street impact of the Swiss National Bank's decision to abandon its 1.20 per euro ceiling last month is expanding across Switzerland, cheapening the cost of imported goods from cars to groceries...

Speaking in Istanbul, George Osborne told Bloomberg TV that there is a growing danger that the deadlock over Greece’s bailout programme spirals out of control. British Chancellor warned that this could potentially be causing serious damage to the European economy, and the UK’s too...

Robin Li, founder of Baidu.com, announced via an internal email that the company will integrate its existing business groups and business units into three major business groups...

As prices for crude oil in spot and futures markets dropped more than 50 percent since June last year, Standard & Poor's had to revise down its oil price assumptions over 2015-2018...

Following the establishment of offices in Ottawa and Markham, the Chinese telecom device maker Huawei recently expressed intention to set up a new research and development office in Waterloo, Canada...

Geschäftsführerin Marias das Graca gab zu dass das Unternehmen <strong>Petrobras </strong>bis zu 33 Milliarden Dollar in 2014 verloren hat. Dieses Geschehen zwang den brasilianischen Präsidenten Dilma Rousseff die Geschäftsführerin Graca Foster zu entlassen...

This is the month when the future of the eurozone will be decided. This week, Greek leaders will meet with European officials to discuss what comes next for Greece. The new prime minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, has already stated that he will not accept an extension of the current bailout...

In light of the next Riksbankmeeting due on Thursday, analysts at Danske Bank see the likeliness of the Nordic central bank to stay put and announce further easing measures in the April’s meeting...

Apple Inc. is planning to add to its recent run of bond deals with a debut sale in Swiss francs, The WSJ reports. The sale could come as soon as Tuesday...

Below are listed the events which can influence markets this week: Tuesday, February 10...