Randgold shares surged in London Monday after the Africa-focused miner agreed to an all-share merger witch Canada's Barrick Gold that will create one of the world's biggest commodity groups.

Global stocks weakened Monday, while oil prices surged to a four-month high, as investors reacted sharply-worded attacks on President Donald Trump's trade and energy policies from leaders of the world's second-largest economy and its biggest oil producing cartel.

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Beijing will release a white paper laying out its trade war stance for the first time, after it cancelled talks with the US on Saturday

Big property developer to pay US$2.1 billion for 40.96 per cent of Guanghui Group, making it the second-largest shareholder.

The Southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, which overtook Hong Kong in economic size last year, now ranks as the prime location for future development, according to Swire Properties chief executive Guy Bradley

AntPool, the bitcoin mining company owned by Bitmain, has pledged to invest US$500 million in the Texas economy as part of its US expansion

Themed as "AI for Everyone", the Shanghai forum touched on Google's artificial intelligence research and applications in areas such as health care, astronomy and arts

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Relocating production elsewhere could be a solution as tariff row escalates between two superpowers, but for those who have not done so, the process would take years