Economy News

London's FTSE 100 ended higher on Friday after heavyweight lenders offset another slide in data analytics firm RELX, giving the index a...

RWE signed a provisional agreement on Friday with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company that Germany's top utility said could see it purchase LNG...

European Central Bank policy is right for the current inflation outlook but risks remain that price growth might weaken excessively and the ECB...

World food prices fell for a fifth straight month in January, led by declines in dairy, sugar and meat products, the United Nations' Food and...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrat Union is considering limiting access to social media platforms for children under the age...

Vietnam's trade surplus with the United States grew in January by nearly 30% year on year as exports climbed, while imports from China hit a...

China's sole silver futures fund slumped by its 10% daily limit on Friday, its fifth straight session of decline, after a global selloff in...

Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said on Thursday that the concession of contracts to operate two ports held and operated for nearly three...

U.S. job openings dropped to the lowest level in more than five years in December and data for the prior month was revised lower amid a softening...

Your next coworker might be generated by AI. OpenAI on Thursday said it is launching a service, called Frontier, for companies to build and...

The Bank of England left interest rates on hold at 3.75% in a surprisingly close 5-4 split vote, with Governor Andrew Bailey and external...

Sterling and UK government borrowing costs fell on Thursday, as investors quickly priced in a much higher chance of a near-term rate cut, after...

Reliance Industries has partially offloaded a jet fuel cargo in Italy, India's first export to the region since a European Union ban on...

British borrowing costs rose on Thursday as concerns grew over whether Prime Minister Keir Starmer could survive the fallout from his decision to...

British new car sales rose 3.4% in January from a year earlier to their highest level in six years, data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers...

German companies gave the government's economic policy a poor report card, the Ifo Institute said on Thursday, with businesses demanding less...

India and the U.S. expect to sign a formal trade deal in March, after which New Delhi will lower tariffs on U.S. goods, Trade Minister Piyush Goyal...

German industrial orders rose unexpectedly in December, posting their biggest increase in two years driven by volatile large-scale orders, but more...

Indonesia reported its best economic expansion in three years in 2025 as growth accelerated more than expected in the fourth quarter on robust...

AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems said on Wednesday it raised $1 billion in a late-stage funding round that valued it at $23 billion, nearly tripling...

he U.S. services sector held steady in January, but businesses paid more for inputs, suggesting that services inflation could pick up after being...

Brazil's National Treasury Attorney General's Office (PGFN) has reached settlement deals with lenders Itau, Santander Brasil and Citi...

The U.S. services sector held steady in January, with businesses increasingly worried about supply constraints tied to a data center construction...

The downturn in Canada's services economy deepened in January as trade uncertainty contributed to declines in activity and new business,...

Euro zone inflation dipped last month, data showed on Wednesday, entering a soft patch that most economists expect will last for at least a year...

South Korea's 10 largest companies plan to invest 270 trillion won ($185.99 billion) in regional cities over the next five years, the head of a...

Bank of America expects the Indian rupee to strengthen further by the end of March, after a trade agreement with the U.S. led to its sharpest gain...

Activity in India's dominant services sector rebounded in January after hitting an 11-month low in December, driven by a rise in new business,...

U.S. President Donald Trump's move to slash tariffs on Indian imports sparked a relief rally across the Asian country's markets on Tuesday,...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced a trade agreement with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday that included a halt to Indian...

Dutch grid operator TenneT on Tuesday said it had agreed to sell 25.1% of its German business to the German state for 3.3 billion euros ($3.9...

Hong Kong's retail sales by value rose 6.6% in December from a year earlier, the eighth month of gains, as the region's economic recovery...

Spain's competition watchdog said on Tuesday it was imposing fines totalling 20.5 million euros ($24.2 million) on three companies in the...

Uzbekistan boosted annual production of uranium to 7,000 metric tons in 2025, far more than an initial estimate, and plans to develop four new...

Libya plans to boost its natural gas production in the next five years to have more supply available for export to Europe by early 2030, National...

Faced with a fraught geopolitical environment, global consultancies are turning to riskier ways to do business in China that some industry and...

U.S. factory activity grew for the first time in a year in January as businesses placed new orders after the holiday season, but the improvement...

Vanguard, the world's second-largest asset manager and a pioneer of low-cost funds, said ​on Monday it is cutting fees on 53 of its index-based...

Oracle shares gained 2% on Monday after Wall Street analysts said the software company's $50 billion fundraising plan allays worries over...

Germany's manufacturing sector began 2026 on a positive note, with output returning to growth in January after a brief contraction in December,...

A stock market collapse is only the latest sign of trouble for Indonesia's capital markets, which are being excluded from a rush to emerging...

Euro zone firms expect revenues to keep rising this quarter but profitability is taking a hit, the European Central Bank's quarterly Survey on...