Economic news

Renault aims to pick a partner to develop its new Twingo electric vehicle by early next year, two sources close to the matter said, with Volkswagen...

Occidental Petroleum said on Monday it would buy energy producer CrownRock in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $12 billion, to boost its...

Fast fashion firm Shein has held talks with the London Stock Exchange about the possibility of a public listing in the United Kingdom, Sky News...

China's Huawei will start building its mobile phone network equipment factory in France next year, a source familiar with the matter said,...

Sterling rose against the dollar on Monday as traders geared up for a busy week of data releases and central bank meetings including at the Bank of...

Futures tied to Canada's resources-heavy main stock index fell on Monday, tracking a decline in commodity prices, while investors await a raft...

Spain's Santander, the euro zone's second-biggest bank by market value, on Monday said the European Central Bank (ECB) had set a minimum...

Analysts are divided over whether Norway's central bank will continue to raise interest rates this week, with a narrow majority predicting an...

Coastal GasLink, a Canadian natural gas pipeline partnership operated by TC Energy, is seeking C$1.2 billion ($737 million) from one of its main...

After ending 2023 on a high, crypto investors will be watching central bank interest rates and a U.S. regulatory decision on new bitcoin products...

Way more jobs than expected in the U.S. were recorded for November according to the NFP report on Friday, while the unemployment rate fell...

Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft said on Monday its key production asset, Yuganskneftegaz, had boosted oil well drilling in the...

European shares were lacklustre at the start of an event-heavy week as investors buckled up for key U.S. inflation print and interest rate...

The UK's FTSE 100 slipped on Monday, with mining stocks among the top decliners, tracking a fall metal prices, while investors await a slew of...

Oil prices held steady on Monday as U.S. efforts to replenish strategic reserves provided support, though concerns persist about oversupply and...

Shares limped lower on Monday in a week packed with a quintet of rich world central bank meetings and data on U.S. inflation that could make or...

The U.S. dollar rallied against Japan's yen on Monday after a report said the Bank of Japan saw little need to end negative interest rates in...

The Russian rouble strengthened on Monday, heading towards 91 against the dollar, supported by currency controls and high interest rates as the...

The dollar started Monday on the front foot, with a reading on U.S. inflation and the Federal Reserve's last policy meeting for the year likely...

The Indian rupee was little changed on Monday, aided by likely intervention from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), even as its Asian peers slipped...

An investor group consisting of Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital has made a $5.8 billion offer to take department store chain...

Asian shares drifted lower on Monday in a week packed with a quintet of rich world central bank meetings and data on U.S. inflation that could make...

Average asking prices for newly listed houses and apartments in the UK fell by 1.9% in December, more than the historic average decline for the...

Britain's struggling factories are seeing some signs of recovery, helped by a long-awaited burst of restocking and a pickup in export orders...

India's Nifty 50 and Sensex indexes hit record highs on Monday before paring the gains, dragged by pharma stocks following the U.S. drug...

The PGA Tour said on Sunday that it has unanimously decided to advance discussions with Strategic Sports Group (SSG), a consortium of U.S.-based...

The dollar rose on Friday after new data showed U.S. job growth accelerated in November and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.7%, pointing to...

South Africa's rand weakened against the dollar on Friday after a surge in U.S. payrolls gains dampened hopes of an early interest rate cut by...

New claims for unemployment benefits increased moderately last week, suggesting that the labour market is actually cooling and coinciding with the...

Cash funds saw a mammoth $93.2 billion of inflows in the week to Wednesday, Bank of America Global Research strategists said in a report, the...

Commodities trader Trafigura posted a record net profit of about $7.4 billion for the 12 months to the end of September, up 5% from a year earlier,...

India's foreign exchange reserves rose for a third straight week and stood at a more than four-month high of $604.04 billion as of Dec. 1,...

India's Max Healthcare Institute said on Friday it would buy Sahara Hospital in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh for an enterprise value of 9.40...

Britain has proposed simplifying rules on financial advice to allow banks, insurers and investment firms to give information to less wealthy...

China's passenger vehicle sales rose 25.5% in November from a year earlier, faster than the prior month and extending growth to a fourth month,...

The United Nations food agency's world price index held steady in November, with lower international cereal prices offset by higher prices of...

The UK's FTSE 100 advanced on Friday, as higher crude oil prices lifted energy stocks, while shares of Anglo American dropped after the global...

European shares advanced on Friday boosted by luxury and energy stocks, while investors assessed Germany's inflation data and waited for a key...

The pound closed in on its largest weekly fall against the yen in a year on Friday, driven by a strong cash flow into the Japanese...

Global miner Anglo American aims to cut capital expenditure by $1.8 billion by 2026, it said on Friday, as it grapples with a fall in demand...

Santos Ltd shares jumped on Friday on the prospect of a possible $52 billion merger with bigger Australian rival Woodside, but investors said...

China's new loans are expected to have jumped in November from the previous month and exceeded the year-earlier amount, a Reuters poll showed,...