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  Bloomberg Nintendo Co. shares rose to their highest in a month after a smooth debut of Switch, a hybrid console that aims to bring together the worlds of mobile and home gaming. Retailers in Tokyo and Sydney began selling a limited number of units early, while fans in New York and Toronto waited in the cold to buy the ...

  Bloomberg Hutchison China MediTech Ltd., the biotechnology company backed by billionaire Li Ka-shing, reported positive late-stage results for its drug to treat colorectal cancer, taking the company one step closer to having a home-grown therapy on the market. The Hong Kong-based company, known as Chi-Med, said in a statement that it is currently preparing to submit a new drug ...

  Bloomberg China has the economic power to move markets, and it isn’t afraid to use it. South Korean stock trading offered a case in point, with a selloff in hotels, cosmetic makers and other tourism-related companies that made the country’s benchmark the worst performer among Asian equity markets. The slide followed a Yonhap news agency report on China ordering ...

  Bloomberg Didi Chuxing, the ride-hailing service that acquired Uber Technologies Inc.’s China business last year, has held informal talks with investors about raising billions of dollars to buy more time to build a profitable business model, according to people familiar with the matter. Didi’s investors, numbering more than 100, are divided over whether more capital is needed now, said ...

  Bloomberg India is exploring new locations, in addition to those already identified, to build nuclear power plants and meet its generation goal, a government official with direct knowledge of the matter said. The nation has had to back out from a couple of sites in the past because of opposition from the local population and is now looking at ...

  Bloomberg Toshihiro Hirao, whose Japan hedge fund posted its biggest decline ever last year, sees relief ahead as he expects President Donald Trump’s policies to boost Japanese equities by the most in three years. Hirao, 52, who runs the Asuka Japanese Equity Long Short Strategy in Tokyo, is predicting that Trump’s pro-business agenda will help strengthen the dollar, stoking ...

  Bloomberg Tesla Inc.’s revenue from China last year tripled to more than $1 billion, indicating better traction in the market Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has predicted could eventually become the company’s biggest. hina accounted for more than 15 percent of Tesla’s more than $7 billion of total revenue last year, according to a US regulatory filing. Sales from ...

  Bloomberg It’s not the economy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at critics of his cash ban after government data showed surprisingly strong growth that helped India retain its position as the world’s fastest-growing big economy. “Well known intellectuals from Harvard and Oxford, who have been at key positions in the Indian economic system, had said the GDP ...

  Bloomberg Lenovo Group Ltd. will pick up about HK$1.7 billion ($219 million) from selling out of a developer of property and parking lots in central China, striking the latest real estate deal to shore up earnings battered by shrinking smartphone sales. The world’s largest PC maker struck an agreement to sell a 49 percent stake in the joint venture ...

  Bloomberg Four planned listings on Hong Kong’s small-company exchange, known for its wild price swings, were shelved this week in the wake of a warning that participants would be more thoroughly scrutinized. Logistics provider XiangXing International Holding Ltd. said it will postpone its initial public offering on the Growth Ente- rprise Market after receiving inquiries from regulators. Local lingerie ...