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Stocks make bright start to 2026
Jan 02, 2026 (AFP)
Stocks had a bumper 2025, with the S&P adding 16.4 percent, the tech-rich Nasdaq 20.4 percent and London's FTSE enjoying its merriest Christmas in 16 years. In ...
Silver slips lower in mixed end to Asia trading year
Dec 31, 2025 (AFP)
Silver dipped nearly nine percent by mid-afternoon and gold also edged lower, extending declines from recent record highs. Trading remained thin in the holiday-...
China's factory activity edges up, snapping 8-month slide
Dec 31, 2025 (AFP)
A key measure of industrial health, the manufacturing purchasing managers' index came in at 50.1 this month, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS...
Stocks mostly rise, precious metals slip in quiet Asian trade
Dec 29, 2025 (AFP)
Markets looked set to end the last few days of the year on a positive note, helped by hopes for more US interest rate cuts and optimism that the tech-led rally ...
Asian markets rise as US inflation eases, Micron soothes tech fears
Dec 19, 2025 (AFP)
The yen fell against the dollar after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) hiked its own borrowing costs to a three-decade high, hours after data showed prices continued to ...
US halts imports of Chinese-made tires from Serbia over alleged forced labour
Dec 19, 2025 (AFP)
CBP ordered the immediate detention at all US ports of shipments of Linglong-produced tires from its Zrenjanin factory in northern Serbia, following an "investi...
EU targets imported washing machines in carbon tax expansion
Dec 17, 2025 (AFP)
Known as Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism's (CBAM), the tax currently targets carbon-intensive goods such as aluminium, cement, electricity and steel from cou...
China says retail sales growth hit three-year low in November
Dec 15, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing has in recent years sought to revive sentiment in the domestic economy, which has been battered by a prolonged debt crisis in the country's vast propert...
Asian markets drop with Wall St as tech fears revive
Dec 15, 2025 (AFP)
The selling came as traders turned their attention away from the Federal Reserve's monetary policy after it cut interest rates for a third successive meeting on...
Spain fines Airbnb 64 mn euros for posting banned properties
Dec 15, 2025 (AFP)
The fine is final, the consumer affairs ministry said in a statement, adding the US holiday-rental giant must "correct the violations by deleting illegal conten...
Windswept Kazakh rail hub at the heart of China-Europe trade
Dec 12, 2025 (AFP)
Central Asia is in the midst of a logistics boom, as Beijing invests heavily in the New Silk Road -- a vast overland transport network linking China to Europe t...
EU agrees three-euro small parcel tax to tackle China flood
Dec 12, 2025 (AFP)
Last year, 4.6 billion small retail packages entered the European Union -- more than 145 per second -- with 91 percent originating in China and their numbers ex...
Turkish ship damaged in Russian strike on Ukraine's Odesa region
Dec 12, 2025 (AFP)
The attack triggered fresh calls from Ankara to halt strikes on port infrastructure, hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had raised the issue per...
China's consumer prices picked up pace in November
Dec 10, 2025 (AFP)
The consumer price index, a key measure of inflation, rose 0.7 percent year-on-year in November, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The readi...
Stocks in retreat as traders eye Fed decision, tech earnings
Dec 10, 2025 (AFP)
Earnings from tech giants Oracle and Broadcom this week are also in view amid lingering worries about an artificial intelligence-fuelled bubble that caused some...
Bleak year for German engineering firms amid US, China turmoil
Dec 09, 2025 (AFP)
The VDMA, which represents some 3,600 companies in the export-oriented machinery and equipment manufacturing sector, expects production to fall five percent for...
EU says to boost import controls as Mercosur deadline looms
Dec 09, 2025 (AFP)
The European Commission said it will increase audits carried out on non-EU countries by 50 percent over the next two years, to ensure products entering the 27-n...
Most markets track Wall St losses as jitters set in ahead of Fed
Dec 09, 2025 (AFP)
With traders fully confident of a reduction Wednesday, observers said they would be keeping a close eye on the central bank's so-called "dot plot" of projection...
Markets mostly up as traders prepare for expected US rate cut
Dec 08, 2025 (AFP)
The reduction has been well baked into traders' plans following a string of comments from key decision-makers since last month and data indicating the labour ma...
China's trade surplus tops $1 trillion despite plunge in US-bound exports
Dec 08, 2025 (AFP)
Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump reached a tentative truce to their fierce trade war when they met in late October, agreeing a pause to painful measures t...
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