Novartis AG’s top executive said on Wednesday it expects to price its gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy far lower than the $4 million to $5 million figure the Swiss drugmaker has said it could be worth.

The dollar largely kept to familiar trading ranges on Wednesday, as it found support near a 3-1/2-week high on higher US yields after the United States eased trade restrictions on Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies.

The faded white walls and wooden door of Fong Lai Kheng’s hair salon in the heart of Malaysia’s George Town stand out on a street lined with souvenir shops, cafes and colourful murals.

The Netherlands said it was issuing its first “green bond” on Tuesday, becoming the first top-rated country to tap into a growing market for investments in environmental projects.

Further weakness in inflation could prompt the US Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, even if economic growth maintains its momentum, James Bullard, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said on Wednesday.

China’s three biggest airlines have filed claims seeking compensation from Boeing over the grounding and delayed delivery of 737 MAX 8 aircraft following two deadly crashes, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday.

Toyota Motor’s Japan Taxi, born in a government committee and designed to be an all-things-to-all-people cab, has become a high-priced icon of Tokyo’s budget-busting 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

German financial markets watchdog Bafin said Wednesday it had ordered online bank N26 to tackle gaps in its measures against financial crime, including in its systems for verifying clients’ identities.

The billionaire Hinduja brothers -- Britain’s wealthiest people -- are considering a bid for India’s grounded Jet Airways, a spokesperson said Wednesday, sending shares in the firm soaring almost seven percent.

Euro zone safe-haven bond yields dipped on Wednesday as trade tensions between China and the United States and renewed political uncertainty around Britain’s exit from the European Union kept investors on edge.

US President Donald Trump says China pays the tariffs he has imposed on $250 billion of Chinese exports to the United States. But

Japan’s trade surplus dropped by around 90 percent in April, official data showed Wednesday, with exports affected by a slowdown in China’s economy as it wages a trade war with Washington.

The US has hit China where it hurts by going after its telecom champion Huawei, but Beijing’s control of the global supply of rare earths used in smartphones and electric cars gives it a powerful weapon in their escalating tech war.

The Purbachal project, a new township in the capital, will get water supply through deep tube wells until the completion of the Meghna water supply line, according to a government decision yesterday. The cabinet committee on economic affairs gave its nod at a meeting at the secretariat in Dhaka.

Companies that improve gender diversity -- especially at the top -- perform better and rake in higher profits, while countries that increase women employment see better economic growth, the UN said Wednesday.

Ford Motor Co said on Monday it will eliminate about 10% percent of its global salaried workforce, cutting about 7,000 jobs by the end of August as part of its larger restructuring in a move that will save the No. 2 automaker $600 million annually.

European firms are “caught in the crossfire” of the US-China trade war and fewer are optimistic about their future in the world’s second-largest economy, a business survey showed Monday.

Oil hit multi-week highs on Monday after Opec indicated it was likely to maintain production cuts that have helped boost prices this year, while escalating Middle East tensions provided further support.

Cases of European firms forced to transfer technology in China are increasing despite Beijing saying the problem does not exist, a European business lobby said, adding that its outlook on the country’s regulatory environment is “bleak”.

Surprisingly retained by Australians in a national election over the weekend, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s centre-right government now needs to find a fast way out of a worrying slowdown in an economy that has been recession-free since 1991.