One of China's top officials overseeing Hong Kong affairs, Xia Baolong, said on Tuesday that the United States' tariff war was "extremely shameless" and aims to "take away Hong
April 15, 2025
Australia's embattled casino operator Star Entertainment reported a bigger-than-expected first-half loss on Tuesday, as remediation costs continue to bite even though it
April 15, 2025
UBS has downgraded its China GDP growth forecast to 3.4% for 2025, on the assumption that tariff hikes between it and the United States will remain in
April 15, 2025
When a Chinese pork producer filed for bankruptcy in 2019, the news came as a jolt to Alan Hill.
April 15, 2025
Japan will seek full removal of additional tariffs imposed by U.S.
April 15, 2025
Taiwan will simulate the impact of any U.S. tariffs on the semiconductor industry and seek talks with Washington on the issue, the island's economy minister said on Tuesday.
April 15, 2025
U.S.
April 14, 2025
China urges Vietnam to resist ‘unilateral bullying’ as Xi tries to rally region in face of Trump tariffs
April 14, 2025
Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic said on Monday the uncertainty surrounding the Trump administration's tariff and other policies has put the economy into a "big pause,
April 14, 2025
The Bank of Korea will keep its key interest rate unchanged at 2.75% on Thursday, according to a Reuters poll of economists who expect the central
April 14, 2025
Brazilian fintech Meliuz said on Monday it will propose expanding its bitcoin reserves strategy, aiming to make the cryptocurrency the main strategic asset in the firm's treasury
April 14, 2025
South Korea announced on Tuesday an increase in its support package for the country's vital semiconductor industry to 33 trillion won ($23.25 billion), up about a quarter from a 26
April 14, 2025
President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month
April 14, 2025
British shoppers spent more last month even as worries about the global economy grew in the run-up to U.S.
April 14, 2025
South Korea will draw up an extra budget of 12 trillion won ($8.45 billion), the finance minister said on Tuesday, up from the previous proposal of 10 trillion won.
April 14, 2025
The Trump administration is proceeding with probes into imports of pharmaceuticals and semiconductors as part of a bid to impose tariffs on both sectors on
April 14, 2025
Haiti's transitional presidential council has approved on Monday an exceptional "war time budget" to address what it called a security and social emergency as armed gangs
April 14, 2025
A federal judge ordered Bank of America to pay $540.3 million in a long-running Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation lawsuit accusing the second-largest U.S. bank of
April 14, 2025
Declining vegetable oil prices are clearing the way for Brazil to increase its mandatory biodiesel blend into diesel to 15%, up from 14%, Daniel Amaral, the
April 14, 2025
The CEO of the largest U.S. power grid, PJM Interconnection, has decided to leave his post at the end of the year, the organization said on Monday, amid rising electricity
April 14, 2025
IRS employees expect to learn their layoff fate around Tax Day, their busiest time of the year
April 14, 2025
Brazilian central bank executive director Rogerio Lucca said on Monday that unclogging the transmission channels of monetary policy is a potential challenge, highlighting that
April 14, 2025
Global grain merchant Archer-Daniels-Midland has begun shutting down domestic trading operations in China and laying off staff within
April 14, 2025
U.S.
April 14, 2025
A legal advocacy group on Monday asked the U.S.
April 14, 2025
JBS SA, the world's largest meat-packer, appears to have moved a step closer to obtaining the necessary approvals for a primary listing of
April 14, 2025
The U.S.
April 14, 2025
TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist Global rally fizzles as it reaches Wall Street
April 14, 2025
Confusion over President Donald Trump's tariffs remains following a weekend of questions around trade in consumer electronics
April 14, 2025
President Donald Trump says he might temporarily exempt the auto industry from tariffs he previously imposed on the sector, to give carmakers time to adjust their supply chains
April 14, 2025
The U.S.
April 14, 2025
The U.N. Trade and Development agency urged U.S.
April 14, 2025
U.S.
April 14, 2025
U.S. home improvement retailer Lowe's Cos said on Monday it has agreed to buy Artisan Design Group for $1.33 billion from private equity firm Sterling Group.
April 14, 2025
Nick Gioia was terminated from the U.S.
April 14, 2025
Small businesses sue Trump administration over authority to impose tariffs
April 14, 2025
Taxpayers calling the IRS for help processing their taxes this filing season may find it harder than normal to get someone on the phone
April 14, 2025
US stocks get boost from tariff exemptions but trade war confusion persists
April 14, 2025
Stocks rallied worldwide after President Donald Trump relaxed some of his tariffs and as stress from within the U.S. bond market seemed to ease
April 14, 2025
U.S.
April 14, 2025
A tariff-induced selloff in the U.S. stock market faces another worry, the "death cross" pattern, but history shows the ominous sounding
April 14, 2025
U.S.-based buyout firm Atlas Holdings is in advanced talks to take over Banknote printer De La Rue for about 130 pence per share, Sky News reported on Monday.
April 14, 2025
The BlackRock Investment Institute said on Monday that it is taking a modestly more bullish stance on U.S. stocks following the announcement of a 90-day pause in
April 14, 2025
U.S. stocks ended higher on Monday, with Apple giving the S&P 500 its biggest boost as the White House exempted smartphones and computers from new tariffs.
April 14, 2025
JP Morgan on Monday lowered its oil price forecasts for 2025 and next year, citing higher production from OPEC+ and weaker demand.
April 14, 2025
The European Union is seeking a fair deal on tariffs with the United States, European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said on Monday, adding that this would require a "
April 14, 2025
Oil prices settled slightly higher on Monday on exemptions for some electronics from U.S. tariffs and data showing a sharp rebound in China's crude imports in
April 13, 2025
A listed version of Systematica Investments' flagship hedge fund is down roughly 19% this year, as some trend-following strategies have struggled to navigate the market turmoil
April 14, 2025
Gold prices dipped on Monday, retreating from a record high hit earlier in the day, as risk appetite improved after the White House exempted smartphones and computers from
April 14, 2025
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation to provide $2.8 billion to close the budget hole in the state's Medicaid program
April 14, 2025
The Trump administration's tariff policies are a major shock to the U.S. economy that could lead the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates to head off
April 14, 2025
Support for Ecuadorean leftist Luisa Gonzalez's call for a recount in the country's presidential election was dwindling on Monday, as a growing number of
April 14, 2025
China's President Xi Jinping called on Monday for stronger ties with Vietnam on trade and supply chains amid disruptions caused by
April 13, 2025
Argentina's peso slid 10% on Monday to near 1,200 per dollar after the country undid large parts of its currency and capital
April 14, 2025
Argentina's grain industry welcomed an exchange-rate overhaul on Monday, though the new measures will likely not translate into immediate sales as the harvest remains behind
April 14, 2025
Behind the gradual and relatively small rise in the U.S. unemployment rate in recent years are a couple of less-closely followed labor market indicators that are flashing yellow for
April 14, 2025
China’s leader Xi Jinping says no one wins in a trade war as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia with a trip to Vietnam
April 14, 2025
U.S. shares gained on Monday, while the dollar dipped, after the White House exempted smartphones and computers from U.S. tariffs but
April 13, 2025
Nvidia announced Monday that it will produce its artificial intelligence super computers in the United States for the first time
April 14, 2025
The European Commission will announce a more detailed strategy to phase out Russian oil and gas imports next month, it said on Monday, after twice delaying the plan
April 14, 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that she had instructed Finance Minister Edgar Amador to speak with banks so they can lower interest rates for both
April 14, 2025
Intel has agreed to sell a 51% stake in its Altera programmable chip business to buyout firm Silver Lake for $4.46 billion, in the first major move by new CEO Lip-Bu Tan
April 14, 2025
Former U.S.
April 14, 2025
Brazil's government raised the individual income tax exemption threshold to the equivalent of two minimum wages, updating a benefit that was in place last year to reflect this
April 14, 2025
LVMH's first-quarter revenue undershot expectations, as shoppers in the United States pulled back on beauty products and drinks while sales in China
April 14, 2025
Dan Ives, Global Head of Technology Research at Wedbush Securities, explains how President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods imported into the US will affect Apple.
April 13, 2025
Nvidia said it is planning to build AI servers worth as much as $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years with help from partners such as TSMC,
April 14, 2025
Investment flows into Chinese physically backed gold exchange-traded funds so far this month have exceeded those for the whole of the first quarter and overtaken inflows registered
April 14, 2025
Cocoa farmers in the world's top-producing country Ivory Coast warn insufficient rainfall could hurt both the quality and size of the April-to-September mid-crop.
April 14, 2025
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April 14, 2025
Carrefour Brasil's gross sales in the first quarter including fuel totaled 28.8 billion reais ($4.93 billion), a 3.6% increase from a year earlier, the retailer said in a
April 14, 2025
Fear of unemployment jumps to highest level since the pandemic
April 14, 2025
Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria's debts to the World Bank, three people familiar with the matter said, paving the way
April 14, 2025
Brazil's economic growth is expected to slow down in the second half of 2025, encumbered by high interest rates and worries about the U.S.-led global trade shake-up, a
April 14, 2025
Goldman Sachs beat first-quarter profit estimates as its traders capitalized on volatile markets to bring in record equities revenue, but the
April 14, 2025
The dollar was flat against the euro on Monday after a bruising week last week sent it to a three-year low against the single currency and left it oversold by
April 13, 2025
Canada's main stock index rose on Monday to an 11-day high, with financial and real estate shares leading broad-based gains as investors grew doubtful that hefty U.S.
April 14, 2025
Goldman Sachs on Monday reduced its forecast for aluminium prices this year after its economists downgraded global growth forecasts including for the U.S. and China following the Trump
April 14, 2025
Intel announced Monday that it was selling the majority of its Altera chip business to technology investor Silver Lake in a deal valued at $8.75 billion
April 14, 2025
French opposition parties on Monday threatened to topple Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's government with a no-confidence motion after his finance
April 14, 2025
Wells Fargo said on Monday its technology banking unit increased its headcount by 20% over the past year on the back of growth in the U.S tech sector, with additional hires in the pipeline
April 14, 2025
Apple took the top spot for global smartphone sales in the first quarter on the back of the iPhone 16e's launch and strong demand in countries such as Japan and India,
April 14, 2025
India and the United States have finalised the terms of reference for the first phase of a bilateral trade agreement to be concluded late this year, with a view to reaching bilateral trade
April 14, 2025
Chinese giant automaking company BYD bought Ford Motor Co.'s former facilities in Brazil and has promised to run the company’s largest plant outside China in the hardscrabble city of Camacari in northeastern Bahia state
April 14, 2025
Market swings may be rattling retirement accounts, but panic isn’t the answer. Here’s what to know about how 401(k) accounts work – and when to worry.
April 14, 2025
Steps taken to reform Social Security during the Biden and Trump administrations have only made the prospects for a funding crisis more serious.
April 14, 2025
To really compare different electricity sources, you also have to look at the roles they play in keeping the lights on and their drawbacks.
April 14, 2025
Billionaire Ray Dalio is worried Trump’s tariff war could spark ‘something worse’ than a recession
April 14, 2025
With global trade deeply uncertain and a tariff war causing havoc on financial markets, Germany's next government is hoping to unleash domestic consumption to
April 14, 2025
U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer NextDecade said on Monday it has signed a 20-year deal to supply France's TotalEnergies with 1.5 million tonnes per annum (
April 14, 2025
OPEC cut its 2025 global oil demand growth forecast on Monday for the first time since December, citing the impact of data
April 14, 2025
No country should bypass international laws to authorise resource exploration in the seabed, China's foreign ministry said on Monday, following a report of U.S. plans to stockpile
April 14, 2025
The sweeping tariffs imposed by U.S.
April 14, 2025
Qatar and Egypt agreed to work towards a package of $7.5 billion in direct Qatari investments, according to a joint statement released by the Egyptian president's office on Monday.
April 14, 2025
Chinese electric vehicle battery giant CATL's first-quarter net profit grew at its fastest pace in nearly two years, while a rise in revenue ended five straight quarters of decline.
April 14, 2025
China has warned the U.K. government to treat the Chinese owners of British Steel fairly or risk undermining investor confidence in the country after British authorities took control of the company
April 14, 2025
Argentina has sealed a $20 billion extended fund facility (EFF) with the International Monetary Fund and dismantled large parts of its currency controls as
April 14, 2025
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April 14, 2025
Jose Daniel Ferrer stepped onto his front porch in Santiago de Cuba on a recent morning, shaking hands and asking after people's health as he
April 14, 2025
CEOs of the 10 largest U.S. utilities earned more than $115 million combined in a recent three-year period as demand for electricity from their power plants jumped
April 14, 2025
Even before U.S.
April 14, 2025
Trump administration cuts across federal health agencies have sent shivers through a biotech industry already struggling through a prolonged downturn
April 14, 2025
The Bank of Canada is likely to pause its rate-cutting cycle this week as rising inflation, weakened employment and U.S.
April 14, 2025
When a group of Harvard Business School students visited Italy's Monte dei Paschi di Siena in January, they gathered notes to build a case study on how to turn around
April 14, 2025
By Sheila Dang -BP has made an oil discovery at the Far South field in the U.S.
April 14, 2025
Japanese government bonds (JGBs) are now a natural investment target over the medium and long term for Norinchukin Bank as the return of
April 14, 2025
China and Vietnam signed dozens of cooperation deals on Monday, including on production and supply chains as well as railway cooperation, as Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the
April 14, 2025
Major geopolitical risk events, including trade tensions, can trigger large corrections in stock prices, the International Monetary Fund said in a report on
April 14, 2025
Sony says it will raise prices starting Monday for some PlayStation 5 video game consoles in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, citing global economic turmoil
April 14, 2025
If your life has been upended by a wildfire, hurricane, flood, tornado, or another disaster this past year, the IRS recognizes you may need more time to file your taxes and grants you an automatic extension
April 14, 2025
Growing recession risks to Canada from the U.S.-led trade war will push the Bank of Canada to cut interest rates at least twice more this year, although a
April 14, 2025
South Korea and Vietnam agreed on Monday to expand economic cooperation after a ministerial meeting on Monday, at a time when the two countries are racing to mitigate
April 14, 2025
Sony said it will hike the price of its PlayStation 5 (PS5) console in markets in Europe, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, citing high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates.
April 14, 2025
The South African rand firmed on Monday, boosted by a news report that the country's biggest political party may back down on a plan to raise value-added tax (VAT) and dollar
April 14, 2025
Trump says free trade killed American auto jobs. That’s not the whole story
April 14, 2025
Thailand's lower-than-expected March inflation rate was mainly due to lower energy prices and government policies to alleviate cost of living pressures, the commerce ministry said
April 14, 2025
The question on every trader's lips in Argentina: How much will the peso be worth on Monday morning?
April 14, 2025
For South African beverage company owner, Ndumiso Madlala, the impending value-added tax hike could spell trouble for his small-scale
April 14, 2025
German exports and industrial production are both in line for considerable headwinds as a result of U.S.
April 14, 2025
A Philippine delegation will travel to the United States next month to discuss threatened tariffs on Filipino exports, while a minister said the country's smaller trade sector makes
April 14, 2025
Goldman Sachs cut its 12-month forecast for Europe's STOXX 600 index for the second time this month and said it "anticipated more downgrades," cautioning that U.S. tariffs and a stronger
April 14, 2025
European shares closed higher in broad-based gains on Monday, as risk sentiment swelled after U.S.
April 14, 2025
They tried to sell their homes without a real estate agent. Here’s how it went
April 14, 2025
U.S. private equity firm KKR on Monday said it had appointed David Petraeus as the chairman of its Middle East business, and has set up an investment team in the region
April 14, 2025
Taiwan's first phase of tariff talks with the United States went "smoothly" and the government hopes to take this challenge as an opportunity to promote a new Taiwan-plus-the-United
April 14, 2025
Citigroup downgraded its stance on U.S. equities and slashed its S&P 500 index target for this year as it expects tariff uncertainty to hurt corporate America's earnings.
April 14, 2025
South Korea's acting President Han Duck-soo said on Monday U.S.
April 14, 2025
Thailand's finance and commerce ministers will lead a delegation to the United States to meet Trump administration officials and push for relief from planned heavy tariffs, a
April 14, 2025
ANZ raised its year-end gold price forecast to $3,600 per ounce and its six-month forecast to $3,500 from $3,200 earlier, the bank said in a note on Wednesday.
April 03, 2025
Swiss generic drug manufacturer Sandoz said on Monday it had filed an antitrust lawsuit in the United States against Amgen over the alleged entrenchment of the market
April 14, 2025
Senior Indonesian ministers will travel to Washington to present their U.S. counterparts with offers of significantly increased U.S. imports and investment proposals as part of
April 14, 2025
Japan's Nikkei share average ended higher on Monday, as iPhone-related shares jumped after the United States excluded smartphones and other electronics from steep tariffs.
April 13, 2025
China's exports jumped 12.4% in March from a year earlier in a last minute flurry of activity as companies rushed to beat President Donald Trump's hefty increases in U.S. tariffs
April 14, 2025
Italian billionaire Gianluigi Aponte's family-run business is emerging as the lead investor of a group seeking to buy 43 ports from conglomerate CK Hutchison, Bloomberg News reported on
April 14, 2025
More than three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Europe's energy security is fragile.
April 14, 2025
Air ‘traffic is back’: These are the world’s 10 busiest airports
April 14, 2025
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday his country does not plan to make big concessions and won't rush to reach a deal in upcoming
April 14, 2025
China's imports of crude oil rose in March from a year earlier, while those of soybeans, coal, iron ore and unwrought copper dropped, customs data showed on Monday.
April 14, 2025
Goldman Sachs raised its end-2025 gold price forecast to $3,700 per ounce from $3,300, with a projected range of $3,650-$3,950, citing stronger-than-expected demand from central banks and
April 14, 2025
The planned spin-off of Holcim's North American business should take place in June, subject to the approval of shareholders at its May 14 annual general meeting, the Swiss building
April 14, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole So the "reciprocal" tariffs are off smartphones and some electronics, but maybe only for a while as they could get
April 14, 2025
China's exports rose sharply in March after factories rushed out shipments before the latest U.S. tariffs took effect, but an escalating Sino-U.S. trade
April 14, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said he doesn't think a foreign company should control U.S.
April 14, 2025
TSMC, the main global producer of advanced chips used in artificial intelligence applications, is set to report a 54% leap in first-quarter profit
April 14, 2025
Shares in Asian tech companies that are major suppliers to companies like Apple rose on Monday after the U.S. government granted temporary exclusions from steep tariffs on
April 14, 2025
China has put civilian government officials in Beijing on “wartime footing” and ordered a diplomatic charm offensive aimed at encouraging other countries to push back
April 13, 2025
Tariff uncertainty engulfs annual trade show in Hong Kong
April 14, 2025
Bally's Corp considered waiting for Star Entertainment to enter voluntary administration before investing but feared the Australian casino group would have been too
April 14, 2025
U.S.
April 14, 2025
Ecuador's national electoral council on Sunday declared President Daniel Noboa the winner of the country's presidential race, after he held a steady
April 13, 2025
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Monday global and domestic economic uncertainty has increased sharply due to U.S. tariff policy.
April 14, 2025
(This April 11 story has been corrected to say that Golub was founded in 1994, not 1991 in paragraph 3, to remove an unrelated stock symbol in paragraph 1 and to drop paragraph 4 to remove
April 11, 2025
Goldman Sachs expects oil prices to decline through the end of this year and next year because of the rising risk of a recession and higher supply from the OPEC+ group.
April 14, 2025
Turbulence unleashed by President Donald Trump's tariffs could rock global shipments
April 14, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for stronger industrial and supply chain cooperation with Vietnam and wider collaboration in emerging fields, the Chinese foreign
April 13, 2025
Britain's biggest companies adopted their most defensive stance since early 2020 in the run-up U.S.
April 13, 2025
Asking prices for housing on sale in Britain this month are 1.3% higher than a year earlier, despite the end of a tax break, pushing the average price above a
April 13, 2025
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April 11, 2025
U.S.
April 13, 2025
US stock futures rise amid temporary tariff exemptions for tech products
April 13, 2025
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says tariff exemptions announced Friday on electronics like smartphones and laptops are only a temporary reprieve until the Trump administration develops a new tariff approach specific to the semiconductor industry, The Trump administration had said late Friday it will exclude electronics like smartphones and laptops from reciprocal tariffs, a move that could help keep the prices down for popular consumer electronics that aren’t usually made in the U.S....
April 12, 2025
Trump official says tariff exemptions on tech are temporary. Elizabeth Warren calls trade war ‘red light, green light’ game
April 13, 2025
White House advisers and Cabinet members are trying to project confidence and calm as they defend President Donald Trump’s economic policies after another week of reeling markets that saw the Republican administration reverse course on some of its steepest tariffs
April 13, 2025
The Expo 2025 has opened in Osaka with more than 10,000 people singing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to celebrate the start of the six-month event
April 13, 2025
Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of one of the world's largest hedge funds, said on Sunday that President Donald Trump's trade war has brought the United States near
April 13, 2025
Many of Silicon Valley's most prominent tech leaders have embraced President Donald Trump in his second term
April 13, 2025
Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won Saturday's presidential election with 90.35% of votes cast,
April 13, 2025
Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar vowed on Sunday to unlock billions of euros of suspended European Union funding to revive the
April 13, 2025
It’s Tax Day. Still haven’t filed? Tips on how to get an extension and more
April 13, 2025
A marshmallow brand is selling $2 Easter dye kits in response to egg-spensive prices
April 13, 2025
U.S.
April 13, 2025
Britain will not relax its food safety standards as part of any deal to secure lower tariffs on its exports to the United States, business minister Jonathan
April 13, 2025
South Korean steelmaker POSCO is considering joining a project by Hyundai Steel to build a $5.8 billion plant in Louisiana as the country's steel industry tries to respond to U.S.
April 13, 2025
President Donald Trump likes keeping people on edge waiting for his next move, and that's been clear when it comes to his tariffs
April 13, 2025
Battle lines over Trump agenda intensify and put GOP leaders in a jam
April 13, 2025
Taxes may not be the first thing on your mind when you celebrate a joyous occasion like a marriage or a new baby
April 13, 2025
How Trump’s trade war with China will hurt the American farmers who voted him in
April 13, 2025
The 145% tariff from the U.S. and the retaliatory 125% tariff from China are putting businesses doing trade between the U.S. and China on edge
April 13, 2025
‘Saturday Night Live’ roasts Trump’s tariff chaos of biblical proportions
April 13, 2025
After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California crabbers are experimenting with a new fishing method that allows them to stay on the water longer while keeping the marine mammals safe
April 13, 2025
The centre-left party of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledged on Sunday to help more would-be home buyers as it launched a campaign for the May 3 election shaping as a
April 12, 2025
Japan must strengthen the yen, such as by helping boost the country's industrial competitiveness, as the currency's weakness has pushed up households' living costs,
April 13, 2025
U.S.
April 12, 2025
Britain said on Sunday it will expand financing support for exporters by 20 billion pounds ($26 billion), including those affected by U.S. tariffs, in an effort to give them
April 12, 2025
U.S.-based private equity firm KKR is nearing a deal to buy OSTTRA for about $3 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
April 12, 2025
British finance minister Rachel Reeves wrote in a column for the Observer due to be published on Sunday that she wants to achieve "an ambitious new relationship" with the European
April 12, 2025
Federal regulators have ordered the operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused 147,000 gallons of oil to spill onto farmland in North Dakota
April 12, 2025
President Donald Trump’s administration has been predicting its barrage of tariffs targeting China will push Apple into manufacturing the iPhone in the U
April 10, 2025
Syria's finance minister, foreign minister and central bank chief are planning to attend the annual spring meetings held by the International
April 12, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration could lay off workers at the U.S.
April 12, 2025
Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next week over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 12, 2025
Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs
April 12, 2025
U.K. lawmakers returned to Parliament from their Easter break to approve an emergency rescue of the country’s last remaining factory that makes steel directly from scratch
April 12, 2025
City spent $540K in police overtime during Taylor Swift weekend, records show
April 12, 2025
Kevin O'Leary, Canadian businessman and co-host of the investment show "Shark Tank", comments on the ongoing trade escalation with China and concerns over intellectual property theft.
April 11, 2025
A New York judge has relaxed a ban she'd put on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency preventing it from accessing sensitive U.S. Treasury Department information
April 12, 2025
Gabon's coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema looked to cement his grip on power as the oil-producing Central African nation held a presidential election
April 11, 2025
A toy store manager hit with daily price increase notifications. A lip balm manufacturer forecasts a $5 million jump in cost of goods.
April 12, 2025
Britain moved to take control of British Steel and keep its blast furnaces open on Saturday, as a minister told an emergency parliamentary session
April 12, 2025
Trump’s using tariffs to get you to buy American. For US maple syrup, that’s a sticky situation
April 12, 2025
The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of deep-sea metals to counter China's dominance in battery minerals and rare earth supply chains, the
April 12, 2025
Italy has no intention for now of using budget leeway allowed by the European Union to boost its defence spending, its economy minister said on Saturday, despite U.S. pressure to
April 12, 2025
Democrats are quick to say that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are horrible, awful, terrible
April 12, 2025
U.S. importers are bracing for the impact of President Donald Trump's staggering 145% levy on Chinese imports
April 12, 2025
Credit ratings agency S&P Global upgraded Italy on Friday in a surprise move just days after Rome halved its economic growth forecast amid global market turmoil and said
April 11, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration wants to strike 90 trade deals in 90 days, but the challenges to quickly resolving the president's
April 12, 2025
145% tariffs on China are clobbering the toy industry
April 12, 2025
Taiwan's top financial regulator said on Saturday it would extend temporary curbs on short-selling for another week to ensure market stability after U.S. tariffs unleashed turmoil,
April 12, 2025
European Union finance ministers expressed interest on Saturday in the idea of a joint defence fund that would buy and own defence equipment,
April 12, 2025
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April 12, 2025
Bank of England interest rate-setter Megan Greene said on Saturday it was unclear what U.S.
April 12, 2025
Wild swings in global markets are poised to keep U.S. stock investors on edge in the coming week, as a weakening dollar and a selloff in Treasuries compound
April 11, 2025
TRADING DAY Scorn in the USA If there is one takeaway for investors above all others from yet another tumultuous week in world markets, it may be this:
April 11, 2025
UnitedHealth Group is demanding that healthcare providers repay the loans they received from the company after a cyberattack at its tech unit Change
April 11, 2025
The U.S.
April 11, 2025
GM is temporarily halting production of its electric commercial van at its assembly plant in Ontario due to slow sales, the company and the union
April 11, 2025
President Tayyip Erdogan told Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday that Turkey will continue its diplomatic efforts to lift international sanctions against Syria,
April 11, 2025
U.S. and Ukrainian officials met on Friday on a U.S. proposal to gain access to Ukraine's mineral wealth, a source with knowledge of the matter said, adding
April 11, 2025
The World Bank is poised to announce a $12 billion financing package for Argentina on Friday, supplementing the International Monetary Fund's expected approval of a $20 billion
April 11, 2025
The International Monetary Fund's board approved a 48-month, $20 billion extended fund facility arrangement for Argentina and the immediate disbursement of $12 billion, the fund said on
April 12, 2025
Wall Street posted solid gains on Friday as big banks kicked off first-quarter earnings season and investors closed the book on a turbulent week of wild swings
April 11, 2025
A dozen former OpenAI employees filed a legal brief on Friday backing co-founder Elon Musk's lawsuit aimed at keeping the non-profit status of OpenAI, marking
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Taiwan officials held their first tariff talks with U.S. officials on Friday, with both sides looking forward to further discussions soon, the island's government said on Saturday.
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Argentina sealed a $20 billion, 48-month Extended Fund Facility deal with the International Monetary Fund on Friday and, in a major
April 11, 2025
In December 1958, Argentina, battling inflation and weak reserves, agreed a $75-million loan with the International Monetary Fund, its first deal with the Washington-
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Argentina's central bank has announced a major overhaul to the country's exchange rate policy, unleashing the peso and dismantling its
April 11, 2025
When Samsung Electronics chairman Jay Y. Lee met Vietnam's prime minister in July, he had a simple message to convey.
April 12, 2025
Beijing increased its tariffs on U.S. imports to 125% on Friday, hitting back against
April 11, 2025
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Sales are brisk at the Villiers-Sur-Marne Harley-Davidson dealership outside Paris, where French bikers reckon they had better hurry if they want the American
April 11, 2025
The price premium for gold in top consumer China above global benchmark spot prices widened this week due to consumers and investors seeking refuge
April 11, 2025
Russian state statistical agency Rosstat raised its estimate of gross domestic product growth for 2024 on Friday to 4.3% from 4.1% earlier.
April 11, 2025
Gold prices vaulted over the $3,200-per-ounce mark for the first time on Friday, as intensifying U.S.-China trade tensions rattled global markets and drove
April 11, 2025
U.S. energy firms this week cut oil rigs by the most in a week since June 2023, lowering the total oil and natural gas rig count for a third consecutive week, energy
April 11, 2025
President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs and a related drop in oil prices have contributed to the uncertainty for Alaska lawmakers tasked each year with crafting a state budget based on volatile oil prices
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President Javier Milei says that he will lift most of the country’s strict capital and currency controls next week, a high-stakes gamble made possible by a new loan from the International Monetary Fund
April 11, 2025
Trump can shrink consumer protection agency but cannot dismantle it entirely, appeals court says
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The U.N. humanitarian agency says it's cutting its 2,600 staff who operate in more than 60 countries by 20% because of “brutal cuts” in funding that have left it with a nearly $60 million shortfall
April 11, 2025
The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds
April 11, 2025
The internet has offered up a host of alternatives as egg prices continue to be stubbornly high
April 11, 2025
A federal judge lambasted a government lawyer who couldn’t explain what, if anything, President Donald Trump’s administration has done to arrange for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador
April 11, 2025
Imports to the busiest U.S. seaport could drop as soon as May, as companies pause orders in response to President Donald Trump's escalating tariffs on China
April 11, 2025
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Lower oil prices could reduce Colombian state-run oil firm Ecopetrol's profits by up to 12 trillion pesos ($2.76 billion) this year, the company's president
April 11, 2025
Drenched Argentine fields due to heavy rains in the country's farm heartland are raising fears of soybean losses and delayed sales of the 2024/25 crop,
April 11, 2025
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Benchmark 10-year U.S.
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Newly implemented U.S. tariffs will have a moderate impact on Peru's economy, the chief economist of the Andean nation's central bank said on
April 11, 2025
The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it had reached a staff-level agreement with Honduras that would result in the disbursement of around $155 million should the board
April 11, 2025
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