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-- 2018-10-08 16:31:28
Most major Middle Eastern stock markets opened little changed on Monday, while Dubai’s Drake and Scull erased earlier gains to fall in heavy trade, despite approval from a majority of its shareh...
-- 2018-10-08 16:28:34
Two American economists, William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for integrating climate change and technological innovation into macroeconomic analysis. The Ro...
-- 2018-10-08 16:27:32
European shares fell on Monday as fears a trade war could have a bigger impact than expected on China added to concerns that rising US interest rates are gradually making stock markets less attracti...
-- 2018-10-08 16:17:06
The steep decline in emerging market stocks since early this year are attracting some US fund managers who think they may find long-term bargains amid the sell-off. Portfolio managers from Harding Lo...
-- 2018-10-08 16:01:38
At least four people were killed and over 10,000 affected as strong winds and heavy rains lashed out across Sri Lanka over the weekend, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said in its latest update o...
-- 2018-10-08 14:07:46
The Taliban on Monday directed Afghans to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections and demanded a complete withdrawal of foreign forces as the only solution to end the 17-year-old war as they ramped u...
-- 2018-10-08 13:29:33
South Africa’s Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to sack him after he admitted to visiting the home of the Gupta brothers, friends of scandal-plagued former lead...
Reuters 2018-10-08 13:20:48
German industrial output unexpectedly dipped in August for the third consecutive month, data showed on Monday, and the Economy Ministry said production had suffered a weak summer overall. Data from t...
-- 2018-10-08 12:39:17
Southeast Asian stocks were mixed on Monday, Singapore shares extended falls ahead of a central bank policy review this week, while Philippine stocks rose after two straight sessions of declines. Sin...
-- 2018-10-08 12:38:10
China will cut the amount of cash banks must hold in reserve as part of efforts to support its economy, amid an escalating trade war with the US. The move will see 750bn yuan ($109bn; £83bn) in...
-- 2018-10-08 12:11:20
Torrential rain in Central America that caused floods and landslides have killed 12 people in just a few days, rescue and emergency authorities across the region said on Sunday. Heavy rains that bega...
-- 2018-10-08 10:49:07
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was ready to allow international inspectors into the North’s nuclear and missile testing sites, one of the main s...
-- 2018-10-08 10:45:02
Asian stocks declined Monday after China injected extra money into its cooling economy. The Shanghai Composite Index lost 3.0 per cent to 2,738.04 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was off 0.9 per cent at 26...
-- 2018-10-07 14:52:14
A Palestinian gunman shot dead two Israelis and wounded a third on Sunday in an industrial park next to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said. The assailant, the mi...
-- 2018-10-07 13:13:17
At least 10 policemen were killed in clashes with Taliban fighters in the central Afghan province of Wardak, officials said on Sunday, amid fighting to wrest control of arterial highways a day after T...
-- 2018-10-07 12:53:17
Former Nigerian minister Obiageli Ezekwesili, co-founder of a group to raise awareness about more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014, on Sunday announced that she will run for president ne...
-- 2018-10-06 15:26:25
Egypt used air force helicopters on Saturday to fight a fire which swept through palm plantations in the southwest of the country, threatening residential areas, state news agency MENA reported. The...
-- 2018-10-06 15:03:00
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) has forecast that Myanmar's economy is expected to grow 7.4 per cent in this new fiscal year 2018-19 which started on October 1. The AMRO has recent...
-- 2018-10-06 13:41:15
A total of 1,106 small and medium-sized enterprises in China have debuted on the National Equities Exchange And Quotations Co, Ltd (NEEQ), also known as the "new third board," in 2018. These compan...
-- 2018-10-06 13:35:42
The chance of the UK and the EU agreeing a Brexit deal has grown in the last few days, the head of the European Commission has said. Speaking to the Austrian press, Jean-Claude Juncker said that whil...
-- 2018-10-06 12:53:35
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has insisted the stalled plan to sell shares in oil giant Aramco will go ahead, promising an initial public offering by 2021. “I believe late 2020, early 202...
-- 2018-10-06 10:17:12
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dismissed remarks by Donald Trump in which the US president said he had warned the king he would not last in power “for two weeks” wit...
-- 2018-10-05 14:44:57
The jobless rate in United States is expected to fall to an 18-year low of 3.8 per cent as the economy likely created jobs at a brisk clip in September, signaling a further tightening in labour mark...
-- 2018-10-05 14:18:39
Japan’s household spending jumped in August as bigger bonuses boosted consumption, suggesting that robust domestic demand could help offset the ill effects of escalating trade frictions. The sp...
-- 2018-10-05 14:04:57
London aluminium held steady on Friday as worries over an alumina shortage stoked expectations of cost inflation, sending prices towards the biggest weekly gain in nearly six months. London Metal Exc...
-- 2018-10-05 12:34:10
Shares in India’s state-owned oil marketing companies slumped more than 20 per cent to multi-year lows on Friday, a day after the government announced a cut in fuel prices. The price cut spar...
-- 2018-10-05 11:48:43
Asian share markets were mostly lower on Friday after US Vice President Mike Pence claimed China had meddled with its midterm elections to unsettle the Trump administration, which Beijing has denied...
-- 2018-10-04 15:48:24
A drunk police officer shot dead two colleagues in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday, state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation reported. The policeman who fired on his colleagues wa...
-- 2018-10-04 15:10:20
India's top court is allowing the first deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar since it ordered their identification last year. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea by attorney Prashant...
-- 2018-10-04 13:26:27
The annual inflation rate of Turkey jumped to almost 25 per cent in September amid a currency turmoil that has fueled an increase in prices, official data has showed. The consumer prices index (CPI)...
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