Economic news

London's ‌FTSE 100 touched an intraday record high on Wednesday, driven by a surge in oil stocks following renewed conflict in the...

Oil prices climbed 7% on Wednesday as airstrikes ‌resumed in the Middle East, adding to worries about dwindling supply as U.S. government...

South Korea will introduce additional curbs on single-stock leveraged ​exchange-traded funds (ETFs), including a cap that could limit ‌an...

Major U.S. technology companies are borrowing heavily as they ramp up spending on their artificial intelligence buildout, and at steadily higher...

South Korean stocks plunged for a second straight session on Wednesday as Asia's ​once-blazing AI rally morphed into a brutal market reckoning,...

Sustained high crude oil prices could pressure India's fiscal ​deficit and current account balance again, ‌a finance ministry report said...

Gold ​prices edged up on Wednesday, supported by some technical buying, as investors ‌hunkered down ahead of the Federal Reserve's...

Global shares struggled to push higher on Wednesday as modest gains ​in the U.S. did little to soothe investors spooked by a punishing selloff in...

The Indian rupee strengthened to a near three-week peak on Wednesday, supported by a rally in local ​stocks and traders trimming bearish positions...

Standard Chartered's push for fee income powered a forecast-beating first-half profit, with the bank lifting its full-year ‌income...

Colgate-Palmolive India reported a rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday, helped by healthy ​demand in its core oral care product...

Chinese sales agent Winnie Zeng has taken an unusual step to protect herself from an uncertain future: she now shares her rented bed with a...

Private home prices in Hong Kong rose for the ​13th consecutive month in June but ‌the rate slowed to 0.3%, data from the Rating and Valuation...

China's central bank conducted an overnight reverse repo operation on Wednesday by setting the borrowing ​cost at 1.25%, unchanged from the...

The U.S. trade deficit in goods narrowed in June amid a broad decline in imports, but the improvement was probably insufficient to prevent trade...

Gold fell on Tuesday, weighed down by a firm dollar that hovered near ‌a one-month high, while investors awaited this week's U.S. Federal...

U.S. consumer confidence ebbed in ​July and households' perceptions ‌of the labor market remained generally weak, a ​survey showed on...

Sterling fell to a more than three-week low against ‌a stronger dollar on Tuesday as lower oil prices eased inflation concerns, while...

French industrial gases group ​Air Liquide reaffirmed its margin targets on Tuesday after reporting first-half operating earnings broadly...

French broadcaster Canal+ said on Monday it has signed a five-year agreement to invest €980 million ($1.11 billion) ​in French and...

The Indian rupee strengthened on Tuesday to close at its strongest level in two weeks as a sharp ​retreat in oil prices and likely central bank...

The German economy likely grew modestly in the second quarter, despite headwinds from the war in the Middle East, as its vast industrial ​sector...

Shares in LVMH slipped 1.5% on Tuesday after the French ‌luxury giant's second-quarter results failed to reassure investors...

London's main FTSE indexes edged higher on Tuesday, supported by earnings-driven gains in consumer-focused stocks, including ​Unilever and Man...

Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Tuesday outlined plans ‌to align technical education and training for young people...

The U.S. dollar steadied near a four-week ​high on Tuesday as traders assessed the possibility of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike this week,...

British retailer Frasers said on Tuesday that its takeover offer ​for German fashion house Hugo ‌Boss had become unconditional after...

Spain's unemployment rate fell back below 10% in the second quarter of 2026, reaching its lowest ​level since 2008 even as the ​labour force...

Oil prices extended losses on Tuesday, hitting their lowest levels in ‌more than a week as hopes for a resolution to the U.S.-Iran conflict...

Hindustan Unilever reported ​a 4% fall in quarterly profit on Tuesday as ‌higher raw material costs and expenses, partly linked to the...

Johnson & Johnson ​said on Monday it would pay an estimated $5.5 billion to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder...

A decades-long crackdown on Google's business practices in Europe is entering a costly new phase, as the loss of the first case brought...

Chip stocks tanked across Asia on Tuesday, rattled by the threat of Chinese competition and worries about who's paying for the AI boom, ​while...

India's economic growth is ​expected to slow sharply this fiscal year from last year's robust expansion and recover only modestly the...

Wall Street ended mixed on Monday, as investors awaited guidance from major technology companies in a busy week for ​quarterly earnings, while also...

Irish consumer sentiment fell slightly in July ​on concerns about the ‌cost of living, a survey showed on Tuesday. The Credit Union...

Average prices at British retailers rose by an annual 0.9% this month, the ​smallest increase since December 2025, as the ‌men's soccer...

South ​Korea's top financial regulator said on Tuesday ‌that authorities would consider a cap on single-stock leveraged exchange-traded...

Apollo Global Management will invest $1.5 billion in Singapore-based Keppel's new private fund that ​will hold six operational oil...

German luxury carmaker Porsche will cut around one in five jobs by 2035, ​with 9,000 positions to be axed in total, as parent Volkswagen and...

Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, the Wall...

The European Union must bolster trade defence measures against aggressive competition from Chinese ‌machine tool manufacturers or risk a...