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Gulf markets inches up in quiet trading

Gulf markets inches up in quiet trading

-- 2018-11-29 16:14:52

Major Gulf markets inched up in quiet trade early on Thursday, getting only a minor boost from Wall Street’s sharp rally because oil prices remain low. The Abu Dhabi stock market recovered s...

Indian shares rise; metals shine

Indian shares rise; metals shine

-- 2018-11-29 13:50:46

Indian shares rose 1.0 per cent on Thursday, tracking broader Asian markets that rallied after the US Federal Reserve chairman’s comments. Asian stocks tracked a surge on Wall Street, after F...

Russia blocks two Ukrainian Azov Sea ports, minister says

Russia blocks two Ukrainian Azov Sea ports, minister says

-- 2018-11-29 13:47:31

Two Ukrainian Azov Sea ports, Berdyansk and Mariupol, are effectively under blockade by Russia as vessels are being barred from leaving and entering, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Volodymyr...

Japan retail sales rise 3.5pc in October

Japan retail sales rise 3.5pc in October

-- 2018-11-29 13:15:39

Japan’s retail sales grew 3.5 per cent in October, fastest in 10 months, from a year earlier as consumers shelled out more on fuel, cars, medicines and cosmetics. Japanese policymakers are coun...

Philippines jails three cops for drugs war murder

Philippines jails three cops for drugs war murder

-- 2018-11-29 11:53:10

A Philippine court on Thursday sentenced three police officers to up to 49 years in jail for the murder of a 17-year-old high school student, the first to be convicted in President Rodrigo Duterte&rsq...

Asian shares rise after Fed chief comments

Asian shares rise after Fed chief comments

-- 2018-11-29 11:48:21

Asian shares followed Wall Street higher on Thursday after US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested the pace of interest rate increases might slow. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.6 pe...

No-deal Brexit could trigger UK recession, warns BoE

No-deal Brexit could trigger UK recession, warns BoE

BBC 2018-11-29 11:44:58

A no-deal Brexit could send the pound plunging and trigger a worse recession than the financial crisis, the Bank of England has warned. It said the UK economy could shrink by 8 per cent in the immedi...

Georgia elects Salome Zurabishvili as first female president

Georgia elects Salome Zurabishvili as first female president

-- 2018-11-29 11:33:03

Salome Zurabishvili has won Georgia's presidential election, becoming the first woman to hold the office. With nearly all votes counted, the French-born ex-diplomat had 59 per cent of the vote with r...

Mideast stocks mostly quiet at opening

Mideast stocks mostly quiet at opening

-- 2018-11-28 15:04:48

Most of the Gulf markets were little changed early on Wednesday, while the Dubai stock market inched up after sinking to a 34-month low in the last session. The Dubai index, which had lost 1.0 per...

European shares rebound at open

European shares rebound at open

-- 2018-11-28 14:59:23

European shares rebounded at the open on Wednesday as the trade war fears eased on the prospect of a meeting between the US and Chinese presidents at a G20 meeting in Argentina. The pan-European STOX...

S Korea's bank loan rate to households rises

S Korea's bank loan rate to households rises

-- 2018-11-28 14:50:22

South Korea's bank loan rate to households rose last month on the expected policy rate hike, the Bank of Korea (BOK) data showed Wednesday. According to the central bank, the annualised rate for fr...

Georgians vote in presidential runoff

Georgians vote in presidential runoff

-- 2018-11-28 13:12:44

Georgians started to vote for president on Wednesday in an election runoff that pits a candidate backed by the ruling party who favours a policy balancing ties with Moscow and the West against a rival...

Nikkei rises to more than two-week high

Nikkei rises to more than two-week high

-- 2018-11-28 11:54:25

Japan’s Nikkei rose on Wednesday to more than a two-week high, with Line Corp extending gains on its partnership deal with Mizuho Bank and Tencent and shippers rallying on higher freight charges...

Asian shares mixed after Wall St gains

Asian shares mixed after Wall St gains

-- 2018-11-28 11:48:36

Asian shares were mixed Wednesday after a wobbly day of trading on Wall Street, and uncertainty loomed as investors looked toward the G-20 meeting of world leaders later in the week. Japan’s be...

5.9 magnitude quake jolts Japan

5.9 magnitude quake jolts Japan

-- 2018-11-28 11:45:14

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck off the east coast of Japan’s northern Aomori Prefecture, the weather agency said on Wednesday. According to the Japan Meteorological Ag...

Trump may cancel Putin talks over Ukraine

Trump may cancel Putin talks over Ukraine

-- 2018-11-28 11:36:10

US President Donald Trump says he may cancel a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin following a maritime clash between Russia and Ukraine. Trump told the Washington Post he was waiting for a...

French consumer confidence falls to record low

French consumer confidence falls to record low

-- 2018-11-27 19:12:48

French consumer confidence fell record low in November, lowest level since February 2015, according to data from the official statistics agency INSEE. The November reading for consumer confidence of...

Vietnam's energy sector needs $150b boost by 2030: WB

Vietnam's energy sector needs $150b boost by 2030: WB

-- 2018-11-27 17:21:48

Power-hungry Vietnam needs to raise up to $150 billion by 2030 to develop its energy sector, according to a World Bank official. Vietnam, one of the fastest-growing economic country of Asia, has be...

European shares slip on trade worries

European shares slip on trade worries

-- 2018-11-27 16:11:49

European shares slipped on Tuesday after a new threat by Washington to impose tariffs on more Chinese imports, while Thomas Cook tanked on a profit warning. The pan-European STOXX 600 benchmark index...

Mideast stocks near flat

Mideast stocks near flat

-- 2018-11-27 16:05:05

Mideast stocks were mixed on Tuesday while the Dubai stock market fell for a fourth straight session to a 34-month low, but Saudi Arabia inched up on support from recovering bank stocks. In Dubai,...

Coalition airstrike kills seven Taliban militants in Afghanistan

Coalition airstrike kills seven Taliban militants in Afghanistan

-- 2018-11-27 14:44:04

At least seven Taliban militants were killed and a Taliban bomb making factory was destroyed following a NATO-led coalition forces' airstrike in southern Afghan province of Kandahar overnight, local p...

Polish anti-corruption agency detains former regulator  head

Polish anti-corruption agency detains former regulator head

-- 2018-11-27 12:49:44

Poland’s anti-corruption agency CBA said on Tuesday it has detained the former head of the country’s financial regulator KNF Marek Chrzanowski, who will hear charges at the prosecutor&rsqu...

Scholars condemn China for mass detention of ethnic Uighurs

Scholars condemn China for mass detention of ethnic Uighurs

-- 2018-11-27 11:30:21

Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in its western Xinjiang region, hundreds of scholars said on Monday, warning that a failure to act would signal accept...

Mueller accuses ex-Trump campaign chair of lying to FBI

Mueller accuses ex-Trump campaign chair of lying to FBI

-- 2018-11-27 10:50:16

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort breached his plea deal by lying to federal investigators, according to a court filing on Monday, in a potential setback to the special couns...

Real wage growth in BD drops to 3.0pc in 2017: ILO

Real wage growth in BD drops to 3.0pc in 2017: ILO

FE Report 2018-11-27 10:15:58

The real wage growth in Bangladesh declined to 3.0 per cent in 2017 after showing an upward trend in the previous two consecutive years, according to a latest report of International Labour Organisati...

Kuwait issues guidelines for fintech

Kuwait issues guidelines for fintech

-- 2018-11-26 19:59:02

Kuwait’s central bank has issued regulatory guidelines for companies wishing to experiment with new financial technology products and services, it said on Monday. Kuwait’s regulatory test...

22 Afghan cops die in Taliban ambush, say officials

22 Afghan cops die in Taliban ambush, say officials

-- 2018-11-26 14:13:28

At least 22 police were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah late on Sunday, officials said, adding to the growing casualty toll on Afghan security forces fighti...

Japan’s factory activity slows to 51.8 in Nov

Japan’s factory activity slows to 51.8 in Nov

-- 2018-11-26 13:33:25

The Nikkei Flash Japan Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to a seasonally adjusted 51.8 in November from a final 52.9 in October, slowest pace in two years, a preliminary survey showed. The manu...

Indian shares meander ahead of key macro events

Indian shares meander ahead of key macro events

-- 2018-11-26 12:34:25

Indian shares were little changed on Monday, with gains in financial stocks outweighed by the losses in IT, as investors stayed away from big bets amid caution ahead of key macro events later in the w...

Protests erupt in Kiev as Russia seizes Ukraine ships off Crimea

Protests erupt in Kiev as Russia seizes Ukraine ships off Crimea

-- 2018-11-26 12:28:52

Ukraine's parliament is to decide whether to bring in martial law as anger over the capture of three of its naval vessels by Russia spilled into the streets overnight. Protesters gathered outside the...