Economic news

Benchmark Brent crude oil futures rose ‌past $100 a barrel on Wednesday, hitting a more than six-week high and breaching the symbolic...

Brent crude rallied towards $100 per barrel on ​Wednesday, keeping the mood in Asian stock markets subdued, as attacks intensified in...

Brent crude prices were trading close to $100 a barrel on Wednesday for the first ​time since July, as escalating attacks across the Middle East...

Indian shares fell on Wednesday as a fresh escalation in the Middle East conflict had Brent ​crude hurtling toward $100 per barrel, a pain point...

The S&P 500 ended lower on Tuesday, with Salesforce and other software makers losing ground, while hostilities in the Middle ​East lifted oil...

Business confidence among big Japanese manufacturers climbed in September to its ‌highest level since December 2021, buoyed by robust...

China's factory-gate inflation gathered pace in August and consumer price growth quickened, ​driven largely by elevated energy costs tied to...

Australia said on Wednesday it sees no risk to its relationship with the United States after reports that the Trump administration criticised...

GE Aerospace ​said on Tuesday it would buy castings supplier Consolidated Precision Products for $11.75 billion, bringing a key part of its...

Bombardier shares pared earlier losses on Tuesday after President Donald Trump threatened the Canadian ​private jet maker’s access to...

Qualcomm on ‌Tuesday said Amazon could buy up to $60 billion of its AI data-center chips and related products under a long-term...

Most Gulf markets ended slightly higher on Tuesday, though gains remained modest as escalating hostilities between Washington ​and Tehran kept...

Britain sold £4.25 billion ($5.75 billion) of 30-year ​bonds on Tuesday with the highest yield since comparable records began in 1998,...

Sept 8 (Reuters) - Prediction market startup Kalshi said on Tuesday monthly commodities trading volume on its platform was four times that of...

Amazon hired banks on Tuesday for its first ever sterling bond ​sale, according to a memo seen by Reuters, ‌as hyperscalers rush to raise...

Novartis said on Tuesday its experimental drug for a muscle-wasting disorder ​failed a late-stage study, the second major trial setback in...

The pound dipped against the dollar on Tuesday, as investors waited to hear from several Bank of England policymakers, including Governor Andrew...

Holtec is targeting a valuation of up to $10.2 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, ​the nuclear technology company said on Tuesday, as...

London's benchmark FTSE 100 was little changed ​on Tuesday as oil prices hit multi-week highs and dampened risk appetite ‌in a week packed...

Sept 8 (Reuters) - Boston Scientific said on Tuesday it no longer expects to meet ​its previously issued third-quarter and full-year 2026...

Shares of Shenzhen Longsys Electronics ended 1% lower in their Hong Kong debut on ​Tuesday, after the Chinese data storage products maker raised...

The Japanese yen ​climbed to a near seven-month high on Tuesday, as growing expectations of a Bank of Japan rate hike next ‌week sent bearish...

Oil prices hit multi-week highs on Tuesday after Iran-backed Houthis ‌attacked Saudi energy facilities and Tehran threatened the United States...

China's export growth quickened last month, buoyed by strong overseas ​appetite for high-tech and AI-related products, providing vital support...

A surge in the yen and mixed economic data sent Asian stocks ​lower on Tuesday, while fresh Iranian threats in the Gulf drove commodity prices and...

Canada's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods took effect ​just after midnight on Tuesday as Prime Minister Mark Carney increased economic...

Japan's real wages rose 2.4% in July from a year earlier, marking the biggest increase since May 2021 ​and the seventh consecutive month of...

British retailers said on Tuesday that they would seek to create 100,000 jobs for young people not ​in employment or education by the time of next...

Sept 8 (Reuters) - Australia's Firmus said on Tuesday it had signed a multi-year deal with OpenAI to supply computing capacity ​from two...

Huawei and Xiaomi launched new flagship foldable smartphones on Monday, ‌stepping up competition in China's premium handset market...

Argentina's rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed by the...

TotalEnergies is cutting its stake in ‌Papua LNG and handing operatorship to ExxonMobil, the companies said on Monday, as pressure mounts...

Britain's Jaguar Land Rover said on ‌Monday it would cut nearly 10% of its workforce through voluntary redundancies over the next two...

Rising oil prices, conflict in the Middle ​East and political uncertainty in Europe kept investors on edge on Monday, leaving stocks to drift lower...

French state-owned electric utility EDF is ​in talks to acquire electricity supplier So ‌Energy, which is majority owned by Irish company ESB,...

Gold eased on Monday ‌after Friday's robust U.S. jobs report bolstered expectations for a Federal Reserve interest rate hike this month,...

France is likely to produce one ‌of the lowest amounts of wine in the last three decades, with champagne output set to halve this year, after...

The pound strengthened versus the dollar, held steady on the euro and dropped sharply against the Japanese yen on Monday, with British finance...

Premium German car brand Audi on Monday introduced a ‌new compact electric vehicle to boost its presence at the smaller end of the European...

Novo Nordisk said ​on Monday that in a late-stage trial, 40.4% ‌of children aged 6 to under 12 treated with semaglutide, the active...

German industrial production ​fell unexpectedly in July, dragged down by a sharp drop in car manufacturing, and economists do not expect the...

Nvidia supplier Wistron Corp ​has launched an offering of 25 million global depositary ‌shares, worth up to $1.48 billion, to fund...