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China's economic growth slows amid sputtering domestic demand
20 October 2025, 06:37 AM
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Gold gains on US rate-cut optimism
20 October 2025, 06:05 AM
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Gross forex reserves cross $32b after 32 months
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Gold price makes another record
19 October 2025, 15:15 PM
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Modi’s big tax cut unlikely to spur job bonanza in India
With one eye on flagging demand, businesses in India are likely to bank the government’s $20.4 billion corporate tax windfall rather than unleash the investments that Prime Minister Narendra Modi hopes will create millions of jobs and revive the economy.
25 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Gold gains on global growth woes
Gold rose to a more than one-week high on Monday as weaker-than-expected economic data from Europe heightened fears of a slowdown in global growth, while palladium continued its record run driven by short supply of the auto-catalyst metal.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Online banks to take bigger share of US deposit market
Online banks, such as Ally Financial Inc and Capital One Financial Corp, are expected to take a bigger chunk of the overall US deposit market, after racking up $95 billion in customer deposits this year with enticing yields on most savings accounts.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Govt aims to sell Air India, other firms by March 2020
India aims to sell two or three state-owned firms to local or foreign firms to raise up to 600 billion rupees ($8.5 billion) by March 2020, a senior Finance Ministry official said on Monday.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Fed should delve into causes of cash shortage
The Federal Reserve will have to delve into the causes of the cash shortage that hit financial markets last week and prompted the central bank to step in, New York Fed President John Williams said Monday.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Eurozone ‘close to stalling as Brexit, trade fears bite
Brexit and trade war fears drove eurozone business growth to its lowest level in six years in September, a closely watched survey said Monday, warning that the single currency area’s economy was “close to stalling”.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
At shuttered Ohio plant, workers still hope for new GM vehicle
When asked about reports General Motors Co may turn its shuttered Lordstown, Ohio, plant into a battery factory, “Buffalo” Joe Nero snorts and points at the vast complex that until six months ago made the Chevrolet Cruze.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
China to assign state officials to 100 private firms including Alibaba
China’s top technology hub Hangzhou plans to assign government officials to work with 100 private companies including e-commerce giant Alibaba, according to state media reports, in a move likely to raise concerns over the growing role of the state.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
New York Stock Exchange parent company introduces bitcoin
The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will from Sunday offer investors the option to trade Bitcoin, giving the pioneer cryptocurrency further mainstream recognition.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Auto industry warns of ‘seismic’ no-deal Brexit shock
The European auto industry on Monday warned of catastrophic effects of a no-deal Brexit saying it would have a “seismic” impact on car-making.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Bearish signal for crude as China closes in on filling oil storage
One of the fascinating tidbits to come to light in the wake of the attacks on Saudi Arabia’s crude facilities was China’s disclosure that it has enough oil inventories to last 80 days.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
LNG prices may hit 10-year seasonal lows:traders
ASIAN LNG prices will likely be at their lowest, seasonally, in a decade by the end of the year as rapidly rising production outstrips feeble demand, weighed down by a global economic slowdown and the US-China trade war, traders said.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
178-year-old Thomas Cook collapses: Why and what happens now?
THOMAS Cook, the world’s oldest travel firm, collapsed on Monday, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Huawei CFO’s arrest at airport to be focus of Vancouver hearing
Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou will be in a Canadian courtroom on Monday to press for details surrounding her arrest at Vancouver’s airport nearly 10 months ago.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Aviation watchdog may ask Boeing to set up 737 MAX simulators in India
India’s aviation safety regulator may ask Boeing to set up simulators in India to train pilots on the 737 MAX planes once it clears the aircraft as safe for flying, a senior official with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Huawei promises smartest 5G phone, but who will be brave enough to buy?
Huawei launches what could be the world’s most powerful and feature-packed 5G smartphone on Thursday, but the fate of the device in Europe will hang on whether it can overcome a US ban to give customers the Google software they expect.
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Tesla’s Model 3 earns insurance industry’s top safety rating
Tesla Inc’s Model 3 electric sedan has earned the top safety rating from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS), becoming the first Tesla to do so.
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
OECD slashes global growth forecasts for 2019 and 2020
Escalating trade tensions are eroding global growth prospects with the world economy set for its slowest expansion since the global financial crisis, the OECD warned on Thursday.
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
China’s growth could slip below 6pc, analysts warn, as trade war takes toll
China’s economic growth risks slipping below the lower-end of Beijing 2019 target of 6 percent in the third quarter or over the next year, analysts warn, but government economists are slightly more optimistic as they expect stimulus to help stave off a sharper slowdown.
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Bank of Japan leaves policy unchanged after Fed rate cut
The Bank of Japan on Thursday warned of increasing downside risks for the global economy but held off on further easing, even as European and US peers loosen their credit grip.
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM