Economy

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s Pakistan mission chief Nathan Porter held an initial meeting with the country’s finance minister in Islamabad on Tuesday, the finance ministry said in…

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee With President-elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party looking likely to claim a majority in both chambers of…

By Uditha Jayasinghe HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who wants…

By Makiko Yamazaki and John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) – Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over how…

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government is not planning any tax hike to finance its 10 trillion yen ($65 billion) plan to support domestic semiconductor and artificial intelligence projects, industry minister…

(This Nov. 8 story has been refiled to drop the repetition of Xi’s title and to correct the spelling of his given name, in paragraph 6) By Marco Aquino LIMA…

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s Communist Party head To Lam has congratulated Donald Trump on his U.S. presidential election victory in a phone call and the two discussed ways their countries…

(Reuters) – China is preparing to reduce taxes on home purchases, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Regulators are developing a proposal that would enable…

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar traded close to a four-month peak versus major peers on Tuesday, while bitcoin extended its record rally as investors continued to…