By Vuyani Ndaba JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The South African Reserve Bank will trim its repo rate next week by a quarter of a percentage point to 7.50%...
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) -China announced plans on Thursday to channel hundreds of billions of yuan annually into shares from state-owned insurers, in the government’s latest effort to...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s key consumer price gauge rose 1.8% in December from a year earlier, higher than economist forecasts and the lowest in more than three...
(Reuters) – Japanese investors raised their holdings in foreign stocks, driven by a benign U.S. core inflation report that fuelled expectations of Federal Reserve cuts and boosted...
By Leika Kihara (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan concludes its first policy meeting of the year on Friday with the outcome to be announced days after the...
By Casey Hall SHANGHAI (Reuters) – More than half of the American businesses in China, the highest level in five years, say they are concerned about a...
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The dollar steadied against major peers on Thursday, continuing its near paralysis of the past two days before more concrete announcements...
Investing.com– Economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region is likely to face headwinds in 2025 due to potential U.S. tariff increases, a strong dollar, and weaker export demand,...
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -People leaving New Zealand hit record levels in the year to November 2024, in another sign of the weakness in the country’s...
By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s exports rose for a third straight month in December, data showed on Thursday, suggesting that companies front-loaded shipments ahead of...