Bloomberg For Paul Boudre, US president Donald Trump’s push against Chinese telecommunications companies is less about espionage than the race for technological supremacy. Boudre, the chief executive officer of Soitec, a French maker of semiconductor materials that go into 5G equipment, automobiles, cloud computing and IT infrastructure, says Trump’s actions are aimed primarily at allowing American firms to catch up. ...

Bloomberg India’s transport and banking services were disrupted on Wednesday as millions of employees joined a strike called by the country’s major trade unions to protest against prime minister Narendra Modi’s economic policies. About 250 million people across at least 12 states including Kerala, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Assam participated in the nationwide strike, said Tapan Sen, general secretary ...

Bloomberg Citic Securities Co is tightening control over its CLSA Ltd unit, following an exodus of staff and top executives from the Hong Kong brokerage last year amid a clash over corporate culture and bonus levels. China’s biggest broker is creating a “coordination committee” at CLSA, which will include its president Yang Minghui and Chairman Zhang Youjun, according to people ...

Bloomberg India’s Supreme Court revived the nation’s revenue department’s bid to investigate billionaire Gautam Adani’s companies, which the agency claims got undue tax benefits by overvaluing coal imports. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde on Wednesday put on hold a lower court’s ruling, effectively allowing the revenue office to seek information on the case from overseas. The ...

Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co’s quarterly earnings beat estimates after memory chip prices began to climb out of a persistent downturn. The world’s largest memory chip maker reported a 34% fall in operating income to 7.1 trillion won ($6.1 billion) in the three months ending December, according to preliminary results released on Wednesday by the Suwon, South Korea-based company. That compares ...

Bloomberg China’s wealthy families are twice as likely as global peers to have made their millions in real estate, according to a report co-authored by UBS Group AG, which found an increasing focus on wealth preservation and succession. Almost 30% of participants surveyed said their family wealth came from property, followed by consumer discretionary and industrials. The swelling ranks of ...

Bloomberg Iran fired more than a dozen missiles at US-Iraqi airbases in retaliation for an American airstrike that killed a top Iranian general, yet the potential for a dramatic escalation was mitigated by the fact that there were no US casualties. A US official said guided missiles were used in the attacks, and Iran appeared to be shooting to miss. ...

Bloomberg With the world on edge over rising tensions in the Middle East, one leader seems unfazed: Russia’s Vladimir Putin. The Russian president arrived in Damascus in just his second visit to Syria since the start of the country’s civil war nearly nine years ago. The timing is significant. The US and its allies are assessing the damage after Iran ...

Bloomberg If Kim Jong-un needed another reminder about the risks of bargaining away North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme to the US, President Donald Trump’s decision to kill one of Iran’s top commanders provides one. The killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani reinforces the North Korean view that the US only takes such actions against states that lack a credible nuclear ...

Bloomberg Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido reclaimed the National Assembly that he heads, pushing past armed guards two days after President Nicolas Maduro’s loyalists blocked him from attending his own re-election. Guaido and his allies burst through the legislative palace’s doors minutes after a pro-government group led by lawmaker Luis Parra, who had claimed the presidency of the body, scurried ...