-- 2019-08-18 11:50:00
Hong Kong braced for a major anti-government rally planned for Sunday after an unusually calm Saturday night in what has been a summer of violent protests in the Asian financial hub. Demonstrations h...
Xinhua 2019-08-17 17:42:13
China will take market-oriented reform measures to meaningfully reduce real interest rates and ease financing difficulties, the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided...
-- 2019-08-17 14:26:39
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday began restoring landline phone services after a nearly two-week unprecedented security crackdown and news blackout following a decision to downgr...
-- 2019-08-17 13:00:52
Eight people died and 10 more were injured in a fire early on Saturday in a private hotel in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, Ukraine’s emergencies service said. The fire occurred shortly...
-- 2019-08-17 12:59:41
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday endorsed a benchmark interest rate cut in a bid to stimulate the economy. In his daily press conference, the president said cutting the interes...
-- 2019-08-17 11:46:20
The US Justice Department has issued a warrant to seize a detained Iranian oil tanker, a day after a judge in Gibraltar ordered it to be released. The Grace 1 supertanker, which is carrying 2.1m barr...
-- 2019-08-16 12:44:54
The European Central Bank (ECB) shut down one of its websites on Thursday after it was hacked and infected with malicious software. The lender said no market-sensitive data had been compromised durin...
-- 2019-08-16 12:30:32
Asian shares were mixed Friday as turbulence continued on global markets amid ongoing worries about US-China trade conflict. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 recouped early losses to be up 0.3 per cent...
-- 2019-08-16 11:17:36
Japan overtook China to become the largest foreign holder of US Treasuries in June, with its holdings at the highest level in nearly three years, US Treasury Department said on Thursday. Japan's hold...
-- 2019-08-15 15:32:59
Tokyo stocks ended sharply lower Thursday, with the benchmark Nikkei stock index hitting a six-month low. The market was observed in dull trading as the US bond market overnight indicated a rec...
Xinhua 2019-08-15 15:29:11
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, on Thursday continued to pump cash into the financial system through open market operations to maintain liquidity in the market. The PBOC conduc...
-- 2019-08-14 17:28:07
The US assertion that the recent depreciation of the Chinese yuan against the US dollar amounts to currency manipulation is not true, a US scholar has said, reports Xinhua. It would be more correct t...
-- 2019-08-14 10:41:57
The European Commission on Tuesday imposed countervailing duties of 8.0 per cent to 18 percent on imports of subsidised biodiesel from Indonesia. The move aimed to restore a level playing field for E...
-- 2019-08-13 15:58:44
Oil prices fell on Tuesday on lingering concerns over global demand and rising US production, though expectations for major producers to further curtail output offered support, reports Reuters. Brent...
-- 2019-08-13 11:42:52
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares slumped on Tuesday as fears about a drawn out Sino-U.S. trade war, protests in Hong Kong and a crash in Argentina’s peso currency drove investors to safe harbors l...
-- 2019-08-13 11:20:55
TOKYO (Reuters) - The yen traded close to a seven-month high against the dollar on Tuesday, as unrest in Hong Kong and gyrations in Argentina’s markets heightened investor risk aversion and fann...
-- 2019-08-13 10:14:02
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore slashed its full-year economic growth forecast on Tuesday as global conditions were seen worsening and data confirmed the slowest growth rate in a decade amid mounting...
-- 2019-08-13 00:00:00
"There is a lot of fear in the marketplace, people are worried," Jimmy Gindi, a New York-based footware seller said Sunday at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. There was...
-- 2019-08-12 20:39:22
Global stocks retreated Monday amid investor concerns that the U.S.-China trade war might be worsening, reports AP. Investors have been encouraged by hopes global central banks will keep interest rat...
-- 2019-08-12 19:12:25
Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Sunday that fears of the U.S.-China trade war leading to a recession are increasing and that Goldman no longer expects a trade deal between the world’s tw...
-- 2019-08-12 17:37:22
COLOMBO, Aug 12: Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, badly hurt by Easter day bombings, is showing signs of gradual recovery, industry executives say, although a national election later this year is l...
-- 2019-08-12 16:55:26
Mukesh Ambani on Monday announced that Saudi oil giant Aramco has agreed to take a 20 per cent stake in his flagship Reliance Industries' oil refinery and chemical business at an enterprise value of U...
-- 2019-08-12 14:14:17
Asian stocks gained Monday amid investor jitters the US-China trade war might be worsening, reports AP. Benchmarks in Shanghai and South Korea rose while Hong Kong and Australia were unchanged. Japan...
-- 2019-08-11 18:46:45
A Tesla electric car caught fire after crashing into a tow truck on a Moscow motorway late on Saturday, reports Reuters. Footage of the incident on state TV channel Rossiya 24 showed the car by the s...
Xinhua 2019-08-11 11:40:23
A wealthier China is a boon to the United States, an economist has said, amid an escalating trade tensions between the two nations that has set the world's nerves on edge. Donald Boudreaux, a senior...
Xinhua 2019-08-10 17:17:12
China's real effective exchange rate (REER) in 2018 is estimated to be at the same level as warranted by fundamentals and desirable policies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reiterated on Friday...
-- 2019-08-10 14:40:06
The death toll from floods in India’s states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra rose to 95, official figures showed on Saturday, as heavy rain and landslides forced hundreds of thousands to ev...
-- 2019-08-10 13:25:28
Thirteen people were killed and 16 were missing in eastern China on Saturday in a landslide triggered by a major typhoon, which also caused hundreds of flight cancellations and the evacuation of more...
-- 2019-08-10 13:06:25
The suspect accused of killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, has confessed that he was targeting "Mexicans", say US media. An arrest report obtained by some news outlets sheds light on hi...
Xinhua 2019-08-10 13:02:37
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday affirmed its view that China's exchange rate is broadly in line with economic fundamentals. Experts said IMF's new report provides further evidence tha...
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