Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr gather in the capital Baghdad for a “million-strong” march to demand an end to the presence of US forces in their country, on January 24, 2020. Thousands of Iraqis rallied at two central Baghdad intersections on Friday after a prominent cleric called for a “million strong” protest against the American military presence, following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and an Iraqi militia chief. Throngs of marchers started gathering early on Friday at al-H

China is on a seven-day Lunar New Year holiday, a period when the Shanghai Disney park would be usually packed with tourists. Last year Shanghai Disney had to stop selling tickets to visitors as the park got overcrowded. Walt Disney’s Shanghai Disney Resort will be closed until further notice to help China stop the spread of a flu-like virus, costing the theme park operator revenue during the country’s biggest holiday season. A visitor wearing a mask walks outside the Shanghai Disney Resort, tha

A digital yuan could allow some countries to avoid U.S. sanctions and increase the Chinese government’s influence, experts told CNBC. It was funded by the digital yuan which allowed North Korea to bypass the global banking system and U.S. sanctions. “It made it really clear that this (development of digital yuan) is a national security concern,” Narula said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. A digital yuan could hurt the U.S.’s ability to use sanctions, Rogoff noted in an argument similar to

SAP isn’t running scared from Oracle. “We are winning market share,” SAP co-CEO Christian Klein said in a fireside chat with CNBC’s Karen Tso at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The German tech giant was the subject of criticism from some customers over a decision to end support for software running on third-party databases like Oracle. Late last year, Oracle’s technology chief Larry Ellison fired criticism of his own at the firm, claiming SAP’s customer base was “up for grabs.” I

Takeaway.com’s £6.2 billion ($8.1 billion) takeover of rival food delivery firm Just Eat has been delayed after the U.K.’s antitrust regulator launched an initial probe into the deal. The CMA investigation is a blow to the planned combination of Netherlands-based Takeaway.com and U.K.-headquartered Just Eat, two major players in Europe’s fast-growing food delivery industry. It arrives just months after the U.K. competition watchdog said it would launch a formal investigation into Amazon’s minori

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 7, 2020, Tuesday. Some analysts believe that worries are not realistic while some concern that the current situation is just a start for a long-lasting conflict. The latest news we got showsUS oil company Chevron has called back petroleum workers from Iraq, so business in the Middle East has been influenced obviously, financing becomes hard under uncertainties. Under this circumstance, the U.S. is not immune from that, it is

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 8, 2020, Wednesday. One of the supporting factors of this bullish sentiment if Tesla’s China strategy. What the Wall Street most focuses on now is Tesla’s market locating and pricing strategy in China. So, Tesla’s going to have to aim to compete against them rather than take a pre-existing slice out of the EV market. I think Tesla operates in a vacuum.

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 9, 2020, Thursday. So analysts believe that it offered some chances to de-escalate the conflict after Iran released its emotions. For this round of US-Iran conflict, the market focus on two key words, one is revenge, one is escalation. It remains an open question whether the new sanctions will be truly repressive and whether they will provoke more retaliation from Iran. And in that context, there are more questions about whet

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 10, 2020, Friday. At this year’s CES, ai applications and robots of all kinds, which permeate all walks of life, were still the most eye-catching ones. The black technology of mind control is also getting closer to our lives. This artificial avatar, called NEON, was one of the stars of this year’s CES. In this way, even if they are products of the virtual world, they can also play multiple roles in the real world.

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 13, 2020, Monday. As we mentioned earlier, wildfires are common in Australia, but this one was made more destructive by drought and high temperatures. As a result, the prime minister and key emergency officials have continued to take holidays and travel abroad, adding to public anger. It wasn’t until the fires had been burning for months that Australia’s prime minister admitted mistakes had been made. This mistake has led to

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 14, 2020, Tuesday. In modern times, the voices in Britain about the abolition of the royal family have never completely disappeared. As world celebrities, prince harry and his wife, prince harry, want to achieve financial independence is not difficult to operate. The couple’s brief statement last week raised questions about how the royal family would resolve the family rift. Regardless of the end result, there are comments be

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 15, 2020, Wednesday. After a 10-month grounding on the 737 MAX, expectations for Boeing’s performance this year were low, but the new released numbers were still jaw-dropping. Because cancellations outstripped new orders, Boeing’s commercial aircraft net order book for 2019 was negative, the first time this has happened to the company in recent decades. Boeing’s total orders for 2019 fell 77 per cent to 246, or just 54 after

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 16, 2020, Thursday. Every decade since the 1980s has been warmer than the previous, and the trend is expected to continue. Scientific institutions typically use the average temperature between 1850 and 1900, also known as preindustrial levels, as a baseline. According to the world meteorological organization, the average global temperature in 2019 is 1.1 degrees Celsius above that level. The world meteorological organization’

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 17, 2020, Friday. The EU commission’s proposal is understood by many consumers, one of the motivations is to improve the versatility and convenience of mobile phone. In 2009, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Nokia and other mainstream mobile phone manufacturers signed a memorandum and agreed to standardize the mobile phone charging interface. Mobile phone interface is not uniform, also brought a lot of waste of resources. More importa

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 20, 2020, Monday. Sunday’s test was another innovation for SpaceX, the test was originally scheduled for the 18th, but was delayed by a day due to weather conditions. A few seconds later, when the dragon capsule was confirmed to have disengaged, an even more excited cheer broke out. So far, SpaceX has successfully completed its “in-flight launch abort test,” also known as the IFA test. In general, abnormalities in the flight

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 21, 2020, Tuesday. Like all new technologies, face recognition is a double-edged sword, so the proposed potential ban has sparked some controversy within tech companies. He believes face recognition has many advantages, such as the fact that some NGOs are using it to help find missing children. The German government, for example, is considering introducing automatic face recognition at 134 train stations and 14 airports. Fran

— This is the script of CNBC’s news report for China’s CCTV on January 22, 2020, Wednesday. Major airlines and cruise lines fell broadly, and we saw all four major U.S. airlines fall to varying degrees on Tuesday. Hotel stays, which are directly related to travel, have also been affected, Marriott global resorts fell more than 4 percent and Marriott international fell nearly 4 percent. Similar surveillance and screening began this week at major international airports in Atlanta and Chicago. The

A man leaves the Wuhan Medical Treatment Centre, where a man who died from a respiratory illness was confined, in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, on January 12, 2020. The Chinese city of Wuhan is rapidly building a new 1,000-bed hospital to treat victims of a new coronavirus, mobilizing machinery to get it ready by early next week, state media said. The hospital aims to copy the experience of Beijing in 2003, when the city battled Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). At the time, Beijing

An Ericsson AB employee works on 2G, 3G and 4G data networking devices during production at the company’s factory in Tallinn, Estonia, on Wednesday, April 22, 2015Swedish telecoms equipment group Ericsson reported a smaller than expected rise in fourth-quarter core earnings on Friday and said the quarter, seasonally its best, had nevertheless been hit by a slowdown in its previously surging U.S. business and higher costs. After a number of lean years, Ericsson has been boosted by the roll out of

The projected purchases include at least $32 billion more in agricultural products, with an unspecified amount of soybeans. Narrow window for US soybeans”Right now, the U.S. soybeans sales window is very small,” Xiaoping Zhang, regional director of greater China for the U.S. As a result, Zhang does not expect Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans will significantly increase until at least the second half of the year. He noted that as of Jan. 9, China has made new purchases of U.S. soybeans, but the