-- 2018-12-15 10:54:31
US President Donald Trump moved to end speculation that he was having a hard time finding a new chief of staff, naming his budget chief Mick Mulvaney to the top post on a temporary basis. Mulvaney, a...
-- 2018-12-15 10:27:00
Australia formally recognises West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing decades of Middle East policy, but will not move its embassy there immediately, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on...
Reuters 2018-12-14 14:00:17
Growth in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, will slow in the coming years, the Bundesbank said on Friday, cutting its forecasts in a biannual review after a string of disappointing data in rece...
-- 2018-12-14 12:17:09
US import and export prices both dropped in November, US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has said. The bureau said the import price saw the largest monthly drop since August 2015, while export price...
-- 2018-12-14 12:07:00
China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, expanded 5.4 per cent year on year in November, official data showed Friday. The growth rate was 0.5 percentage points lower...
-- 2018-12-14 11:16:44
Japan’s Nikkei fell on Friday morning, led by SoftBank , Fast Retailing and other large-cap stocks, hit by a dull estimate for a futures and options expiry and worrisome Chinese and Japanese eco...
-- 2018-12-14 11:06:26
Asian shares tumbled on Friday after China reported weaker-than-expected economic data, stirring up worries about the state of the world’s second largest economy. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index...
-- 2018-12-13 15:04:39
Egypt's fiscal deficit will shrink to 6.4 per cent of GDP in 2019-20 fiscal year (FY) from 9.4 per cent in FY 2017-18, said a report by the official news agency MENA. The fiscal deficit is expected t...
-- 2018-12-13 12:47:37
Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, who worked with North Korea, is being investigated on suspicion of harming China’s state security, officials said, days after a former Canadian diplomat was...
-- 2018-12-13 12:02:34
A crash involving a high-speed train at a station in the Turkish capital Ankara has killed at least four people and injured more than 40, local media say. Images from the scene showed emergency servi...
-- 2018-12-13 11:14:28
US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday for crimes including orchestrating hush payments to women in violation of cam...
-- 2018-12-13 11:03:24
Japanese shares rose on Thursday as investors cheered Wall Street’s overnight gains, thanks to signs of easing Sino-US trade tensions, with technology firms getting a boost from a rally in the...
Reuters 2018-12-13 10:33:13
Asian shares and the pound moved higher on Thursday as investors breathed a sigh of relief after British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a no-confidence vote, and as China appeared to be taking mo...
-- 2018-12-12 14:07:51
UK Prime Minister Theresa May will face a vote of no confidence in her leadership later on Wednesday. Conservative MPs will vote between 18:00 GMT and 20:00 GMT. The challenge to May's position come...
-- 2018-12-12 12:30:30
The ADB expects developing Asia to meet its growth forecasts for this year and next on strong domestic demand and easing inflation pressures. The Manila-based institution, the Asian Development Ban...
-- 2018-12-12 12:01:31
Japan’s Nikkei rallied on Wednesday morning, recouping some of the losses over the past two days, as investor risk appetite revived on positive developments in Sino-US trade relations. US Presi...
-- 2018-12-12 11:46:40
Asian shares rose Wednesday amid hopes for US-China trade talks. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 added 1.7 per cent in early trading to 21,501.95. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged up 0.8 pe...
-- 2018-12-12 11:23:29
A Canadian, reported to be a former diplomat, has been detained in China and his current employer says it is working for his prompt release. The International Crisis Group said it was "aware of repor...
-- 2018-12-11 14:46:22
Carlos Ghosn, the ousted chairman of Nissan Motor, has filed a complaint against a court decision to extend his detention following his re-arrest on fresh allegations of financial misconduct, the Toky...
-- 2018-12-11 13:18:36
Mexico will invest more than $30 billion (23.57 billion pounds) in its poor southern states over the next five years to boost the region economically, the country’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebra...
-- 2018-12-11 13:14:05
A magnitude 7.1 quake struck on Monday in the southern Atlantic Ocean, close to the South Sandwich Islands north of Antarctica, the US Geological Survey said. The quake, initially reported as a magni...
-- 2018-12-11 12:03:52
Thailand will hold a much-delayed general election on Feb 24, pending the lifting of a ban on political activity by the junta in Bangkok by January, the Election Commission said on Tuesday. The junta...
-- 2018-12-11 11:29:46
The United States said it had sanctioned three North Korean officials, including a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, for serious human rights abuses and censorship. The US Treasury on Mond...
-- 2018-12-11 11:29:38
China shares rebounded cautiously on Tuesday in thin trade as investors look to government policies to support markets and counter signs of slowing domestic growth amid a weakening of global risk ap...
-- 2018-12-11 11:14:30
Asian markets were mixed Tuesday in narrow trading on doubts that US and China can manage to resolve their festering trade dispute. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.4 per cent to 21,127.0...
-- 2018-12-10 17:16:42
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has accelerated its investments in technology and is keeping the door open to strategic partnerships for technology investments. QIA's CEO Mansour Ibrahim al-Mahm...
-- 2018-12-10 15:49:35
Simmering tensions between the US and China dented European shares on Monday as investors fled risk at the start of a highly uncertain week with Britain’s parliamentary vote on Brexit looming....
-- 2018-12-10 14:39:56
The growth domestic product (GDP) of France will grow 1.5 per cent this year, a slower-than-expected, the country’s deputy finance minister said on Monday. The GDP will grow at the weaker tha...
-- 2018-12-10 14:33:45
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members. The judges ruled that this could be done without altering the terms of B...
-- 2018-12-10 14:25:47
Global stocks extended slump on Monday, with US equity futures and Asian shares sliding on worries over slowing growth and fears that a rise in tensions between Washington and Beijing could torpedo...
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