The Taiwan-based tech firm HTC said it will suspend stock trade Thursday pending a "major announcement." HTC did not comment on the report Thursday other than calling them speculations and rumors. Talks of a possible Google acquisition of HTC - either the whole firm or its smartphone team - have been around for months. In an example of HTC's dramatic rise and decline, its current share price (NT$69.3) is only 5 percent of its historic high of NT$1,300 reached in 2011, when HTC was the highest priced stock in the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The current top-priced stock title goes to Largan, a major supplier of iPhone camera lens.

Source: The China Post September 20, 2017 10:52 UTC