The US Food and Drug Administration has contacted dozens of medical device manufacturers whose facilities in China may be at risk of creating shortages in the supply chain -- and indeed, some facilities have already been disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak.

Nearly half of the planet's 5G smartphones were shipped to China last year, a new report finds.

Commercial banks extended 3.34 trillion yuan (US$477 billion) of credit in January, an all-time high for bank lending in a single month, the People's Bank of China said

Gold rose and global equity markets slid on Tuesday after Apple said it was unlikely to meet its sales guidance because of the coronavirus outbreak in China, a warning highlighting the epidemic's threat to global growth and corporate profits.

Almost 60% of the firms expect demand to be lower than normal over the next few months, nearly half said their global supply chain had already been affected by the business shutdown, and about a third of them will consider moving operations out of the country if this continues.

Singapore has reported one of the highest numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases outside China.

The Trump administration will not change its intelligence sharing policy with the United Kingdom despite contentious disagreements over the UK's recent decision to rely on China's Huawei to help build its next generation of super-fast wireless networks, senior administration officials said Friday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far, threatening the country's economy, sources told Reuters, days before Beijing rolled out measures to soften the blow.

China's Hubei province on Wednesday reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since January, lending credence to a prediction from the country's senior medical adviser that the outbreak could be over by April.

Nissan is the latest car maker to temporarily shut one of its factories as it can't get parts from China. The firm will halt production for two days at a plant in Japan which makes the Serena and X-Trail models.

How far will Elon Musk go to keep his Tesla stock soaring? He's already gone further than you'd think.

Apple's main iPhone maker Foxconn got the green light on Monday to reopen two major plants in China closed because of the coronavirus and aims to resume production even though only 10% of the workforce has returned so far, a source told Reuters.

Local Chinese authorities have not blocked Apple supplier Foxconn from resuming production amid a coronavirus outbreak, they said in a statement on Sunday, denying an earlier report in the Nikkei Business Daily.

Qualcomm (QCOM) said on Wednesday that it has lowered its earnings guidance for next quarter in part due to the virus outbreak in China.

Apple's decision to temporarily shutter its stores in China as a result of the new coronavirus could delay up to 1 million iPhone sales, but is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the company's revenue, analysts at Wedbush Securities said Saturday.

Investors are bracing for a potential plunge in Chinese markets on Monday when onshore trade in stocks, bonds, yuan and commodities resumes following the Lunar New Year break and a steep global selldown on fears about the spread of a new virus.

Google said on Wednesday it is temporarily shutting down all its offices in China due to the outbreak of a new coronavirus in the country.

Apple is rerouting supply chains. Ikea is closing its stores and paying staff members to stay home. Starbucks is warning of a financial blow. Ford and Toyota will idle some of their vast Chinese assembly plants for an extra week.

Apple has suppliers in the Wuhan area of China and has taken precautions like closing one store in China and reducing hours at other retail locations.

The company says future travel to the country will require special approval

From an investment standpoint, the coronavirus and the subsequent quarantining of Wuhan, China, poses a possible benefit to US memory chip companies like Micron Technology and Western Digital.

Hong Kong announced Tuesday that it was closing many of its border crossings with mainland China in a bid to contain the Wuhan coronavirus, as the death toll from the outbreak topped 100, with more than 4,500 cases in the mainland.

China is struggling with a new virus that has already killed more than 20 people.

As Chinese cities go into quarantine, investors get nervous over the lockdown of the world's workshop.

China has revised up its economic growth by 0.1 percentage points each year between 2014 and 2018, the National Bureau of Statistics said, making it easier for Beijing to fulfill its goal of doubling the size of the economy by 2020 from 2010.

Apple saw a huge boost in iPhone sales in China last month, but embattled tech giant Huawei won't giving up the top spot anytime soon.

Tesla has delivered its first cars made in China, marking a major milestone for the electric vehicle maker.

China's official Purchasing Managers' Index for manufacturing came in at 50.2 for the month of December, the country's statistics bureau said on Tuesday.

The country's central bank will in effect inject $115 billion into the financial system despite signs the economy has been improving.

The Indian government has allowed Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co to participate in trials for 5G networks, a company spokesman said on Monday.

Many Chinese phones are already prepared to use it.

Thirty years ago, Shenzhen was a fishing village, surrounded by paddy fields.

Taiwan's stock market is racing toward its first record high in almost three decades. Investors are taking an upbeat view on the global semiconductor industry, but President Trump's standoff with China over technology has also helped.

It wants automated systems to echo state policies.

China has been reluctant to commit to the amount of agriculture products it's willing to buy, while big numbers are floating from Washington.

The Trump administration is finalizing a set of narrow rules to limit exports of sophisticated technology to adversaries like China, a document seen by Reuters shows, in a boon to U.S. industry that feared a much tougher crackdown on sales abroad.

The country is wasting billions of dollars and causing debt strains by pursuing too many semiconductor projects.

China on Sunday called off additional tariffs set to kick in on some US goods as the two countries pull back from a trade war that has roiled financial markets and damaged global economies.

Samsung Electronics will increase investment at its chip factory in China by $8 billion to boost production of NAND flash memory chips, Chinese media reported on Tuesday.

Forty-eight per cent of UK companies surveyed by the British Chamber of Commerce in China say business has become more difficult in 2019