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Nintendo said Switch console sales totaled 23.06 million last financial year, down from 28.83 million the previous year due to the chip shortage.

As recently as 2015, climate scientists had said there was zero chance of surpassing 1.5 degrees Celsius in the following five years.

Returning to trade after a holiday on Monday, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell nearly 2% on Tuesday.

Yoon Suk-yeol is not going to “have much of a honeymoon period,” said Kathleen Stephens, president and CEO of the Korea Economic Institute of America.

South Korean entrepreneur Do Kwon is betting billions on the idea of bitcoin becoming the "reserve currency" of the crypto economy.

Russia has averted a historic debt default since sanctions were imposed on its foreign currency reserves, but analysts believe it is delaying the inevitable.

Hong Kong's incoming chief executive John Lee is largely "untested and unknown" outside of security issues, said David Dodwell of consultancy Strategic Access.

Between late March and late April, the share of respondents reporting an impact from Covid controls rose to 58% from 54%, an AmCham China survey found.

In line with its regional peers, the Philippine peso has weakened so far this year as the dollar continues to trend higher.

"It's usually the big shock jump that causes a lot of unhappiness on the street," an economist at Bank of America Securities told CNBC.

Biden said funding for shipments to Ukraine was set to run out in 10 days, and therefore he was "prepared to accept that these two measures move separately."

El Salvador just added another $15.5 million worth of bitcoin to its balance sheet, as the world's most popular cryptocurrency continues its sell-off.

The biggest names of the technology industry are becoming more affordable as investors take account of the latest U.S. central bank decision.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen believes the U.S. financial system is in working order, but wouldn't be surprised to see market volatility linger.

The stock market may not literally be the economy, but the distinction between the two is getting increasingly harder to draw.

President Joe Biden signed a bill that aims to streamline U.S. military assistance to Ukraine as it fights off a Russian invasion.

An ETF that tracks the most recent IPOs has lost almost 60% of its value since reaching a high in September.

President Vladimir Putin on Monday tried to defend Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in his annual "Victory Day" speech.

The stock market sell-off continued following a wild week of trading.

Goldman is scaling back its business in SPACs as blank check deals got caught in a double whammy of a regulatory crackdown and a tough market environment.