A now record-setting run of U.S. economic growth enters its 121st month on Monday, sustained by a decade of low interest rates and massive Federal Reserve intervention that helped put 22 million people back to work.
Australia's government faces its first legislative test after being returned in May's election when parliament meets on Tuesday, as it seeks support from independent senators to pass tax cuts needed to stimulate a stumbling economy.
SYDNEY: Shares of Australia's Afterpay Touch Group Ltd, an early adopter of buy-now-pay-later consumer lending, were being sold down for a second trading day on Monday after credit card giant Visa Inc unveiled plans to enter the market. The stock was down as much as 10per cent in early...
Factory activity shrank in most Asian countries in June as the simmering U.S.-China trade conflict put further strains on the region's manufacturing sector, keeping policymakers under pressure to deploy stronger steps to avert a global recession.
The son of a Thai fisherman, Anurak Saruethai never really took to life at sea. But seafood has been good to him.
PARIS: The record-breaking temperatures recorded in France last week may have fizzled but the cars that were banned from Paris during the heatwave will remain off the road under new measures to banish smog. Starting on Monday, the list of older, more polluting vehicles banned from the French ...
Japan announced Monday it would tighten regulations on the export to South Korea of several chemicals used in chip and smartphone production amid a row with Seoul on wartime forced labour.
Stocks rallied while bonds retreated in Asia on Monday as a thaw in the Sino-U.S. trade dispute tempered risks to the global economy, leading investors to pare back wagers on aggressive policy easing by the major central banks.
SINGAPORE: Private home prices in Singapore rose 1.3 per cent in the second quarter, reversing two straight quarters of decline, according to flash estimates released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Monday (Jul 1). The private residential property index increased 1.9 points from 148 ...
HONG KONG: Some foreign wealth managers are scrapping plans to open offices in Hong Kong in favour of Singapore, as the rich begin to move funds from the Chinese territory where a new extradition Bill has stoked public unrest, people familiar with the matter said. A mid-sized European private ......
