Stock forecasters in search of an early-warning system for the next Chinese bear market are zeroing in on the country’s record $358 billion pile of margin debt.
When that three-year build-…
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Saudi Arabia's stock market, valued at $585 billion, opened up to direct foreign investment for the first time Monday, as the country seeks an economic boost amid low global oil prices.
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The Russian central bank cut its main lending rate by one percentage point on Monday, extending an easing cycle as inflation slows and the economy struggles.
The bank lowered its one-week…
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Economists are expecting New Zealand’s economic data due later this week will reflect weaker growth driven primarily by a decline in dairy production. A Thomson Reuters news agency poll has…
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Demand for staff in Scotland has grown again but the availability of candidates to fill vacancies has fallen sharply, according to the latest Bank of Scotland report, NewsNow reported. The bank’s…
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A team from the International Monetary Fund has arrived in Beijing to assess whether the yuan should be included in the Special Drawing Rights basket, according to a statement from the Washington-…
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The labor market in Singapore remained tight in the first quarter of 2015, as overall unemployment rate dipped to 1.8 percent from the previous quarter’s 1.9 percent, Channel NewsAsia reported.
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Colombia’s gross domestic product grew 2.8% in the first quarter from a year earlier, the government said, in line with analysts’ expectations but the slowest quarterly growth in two and a half…
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Egypt’s New Suez Canal will open on August 6, the canal authority chairman said, a project that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hopes will stimulate an economy suffering double-digit unemployment,…
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US and Japanese central bank meetings will be among the key trading cues for Tokyo investors next week, as they looks for hints of future policy moves on both sides of the Pacific, NewsNow…
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With German 10-year bond yields climbing above 1 percent this week for the first time since September, investors will be looking to next week’s auction and inflation data for signs the selloff has…
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Slowing economic growth in China is laying bare the gaps between winners and losers in the coastal regions, previously the most important regional drivers of growth.
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Several of the biggest fund managers based in London are drawing up plans to move trillions of pounds of assets and thousands of jobs outside of Britain should the country vote to leave the EU in…
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The European Union has more work to do, experts say, if it hopes to seal a transatlantic trade deal that has been criticized for leaving governments open to international legal action from…
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In what analysts consider another blow to the local economy, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas announced that foreign direct investments in the Philippines dropped by more than 50% in the first…
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The value of Chinese stocks rose above $10 trillion for the first time, the latest milestone for the nation’s world-beating rally.
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Europe is being led across a “bridge to nowhere” by Greece, the governor of Finland’s central bank warned over the weekend.
Erkki Liikanen said the ongoing delay in negotiations between the…
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said she was “quite anguished” over the country’s rising inflation rate and said her government would do “the possible and the impossible” to rein in prices.
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Leaders from embargo-hit Cuba have invited New Zealand businesses to invest in the island’s economy. The country, which struggles under a tough US trade, economic and financial blockade, says it…
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Overhauling the Turkish economy that has been faring badly under Justice and Development Party (AK Party) rule will be high on the agenda of the new government, with experts highlighting…
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It’s been a little over a year since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in India and the results have been mostly positive for this South Asian country and the surrounding region…
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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has expressed hope that economic and tourism cooperation between France and China can be deepened in the context of the “Silk Road” initiatives, Xinhua…
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US President Barack Obama on Saturday urged lawmakers to give his trade agenda a second chance and support a bill that would provide training to American workers who see their jobs shipped…
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Chinese companies are interested in the development of commercial shipping along the Northern Sea Route, as well as in the local Kirkenes Port and infrastructure, Rune Rafaelsen, former leader of…
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Despite the grievous state of the Ukrainian economy, the IMF said it will continue to lend money to Ukraine, so Kiev can complete economic restructuring.
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