Economic news

London's FTSE 100 ‌closed higher on Wednesday, recovering from losses earlier in the day as investors took heart from U.S. President...

Indian state-run refiner Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) reported a jump in third-quarter profit on Wednesday, supported by higher refining margins...

British supermarket group Morrisons on Wednesday reported flat core earnings for its 2024/25 year, blaming higher costs, but said trading improved...

British industrial orders fell again in January but by the smallest amount since September, while expectations for prices shot to an almost...

Fashion retailer Next said on Wednesday it has purchased British footwear brand Russell & Bromley through an insolvency process, paying...

There are early signs that pay deals awarded by British employers have fallen to around 3% at the start of this year, data provider Brightmine said...

Chinese importers of naphtha could boost stocks in the first quarter of 2026 ahead of an imminent consumption tax on the petrochemical feedstock...

The pound held steady on Wednesday, after data showed UK inflation picked up more than expected in December, which could lower the...

LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - British sportswear retailer JD Sports Fashion on Wednesday reported a fall in underlying sales over the key...

Gold prices surged to a record ‌above $4,800 per ounce on Wednesday, as investors sought the metal as a safe haven following a broad selloff...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may struggle to calm a bond market jolted by her vow to cut the consumption tax rate, a taboo even...

Indonesia's central bank held its key policy rates steady on Wednesday, as expected, saying the level was supportive of economic expansion...

India's fertiliser imports for the current fiscal year are expected to surge 76% from a year earlier to a record $18 billion, ​government and...

Global liquefied natural gas (LNG) output is set to jump this year, easing constraints seen since the 2022 Ukraine war and dampening prices, which...

Asian stocks extended their losing streak on Wednesday, undone by heightened tensions over U.S. threats to acquire Greenland ​ahead of President...

Netflix beat Wall Street's revenue and earnings estimates for its holiday quarter on Tuesday but its shares tumbled more than 4% in...

United Airlines on Tuesday issued an upbeat outlook for the current quarter and the full year, ‌buoyed by strong demand from...

Streaming services captured nearly half of all television viewership in the U.S. in December, powered by Netflix's Christmas Day NFL games and...

The U.S. Postal Service said on Tuesday it is launching an online bidding platform to take proposals for access to its last‑mile delivery network,...

Roche's Genentech said on Tuesday it will more than double its initial investment in a biomanufacturing facility in North Carolina to...

AI startup Humans&, founded by former OpenAI, Alphabet ​and xAI researchers, has raised $480 million in a seed financing ‌round, which...

Beehiiv expects to nearly double annual revenue to $50 million this year as the newsletter startup challenges larger rival Substack for a share of...

Amazon.com is starting to see an uptick in product prices on its e-commerce platform as sellers respond to cost pressures stemming from U.S....

Netflix has switched to an all-cash offer for Warner Bros Discovery's studio and streaming assets without increasing the $82.7 billion price in...

Danish pension fund AkademikerPension said ‌on Tuesday it would sell off its holding of U.S. Treasuries, worth some $100 million, by the end...

First Solar said on Tuesday the United States Patent and Trademark Office director denied three separate third-party applications challenging...

Oil prices were slightly ‌higher on Tuesday as investors monitored U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats against European...

German investor morale rose strongly in January to its highest value since August 2021, the ZEW economic research institute said on Tuesday, as...

Prague-based Czechoslovak Group (CSG) will float up to a 15.2% stake in its initial public offering, it said on Tuesday, valuing the company's...

Walmart-backed Indian payments firm PhonePe has received regulatory approval for its stock market listing after confidentially filing for...

Fresh tariffs by the U.S. ​would weaken economic growth ‌for all parties involved but their impact on European inflation should be...

UK stocks slipped on Tuesday, swept up in a global risk-off mode after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to slap tariffs on European nations until...

European stocks fell in early trading on Tuesday, the dollar entered a second day of declines and U.S. Treasury yields hit a four-month high after...

The Indian rupee extended losses to a fifth consecutive session on Tuesday as strong dollar demand continued to put pressure on the currency, while...

Gold surged past the $4,700 an ounce mark for the first time on Tuesday, and silver hovered just below a fresh record high, as global tensions...

Taiwan's export orders broke a record in 2025 on surging demand for artificial intelligence technology, the government said on Tuesday, with...

Global fund managers are the most bullish since July 2021, January's Bank of America survey showed on Tuesday, with growth optimism jumping and...

Britain's jobs market weakened in the run-up to November's budget announcement by finance minister Rachel Reeves, according to official...

The dollar retreated for a second day in Asian trading on Tuesday after threats from the White House towards the European Union over the future of...

China's trade with North Korea in 2025 rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, customs data showed on Tuesday, as ties between the two countries...

Australia's second-biggest ​pension fund says it is reducing its exposure to the U.S. dollar through currency ‌hedging as falling interest...

Russia ran a budget deficit of 5.6 trillion roubles ($72.12 billion), or 2.6% of GDP, in 2025, the Finance Ministry said on Monday, the highest...