South Korea is extending trading hours on its main stock exchange, breaking with established norms across major Asian markets as it seeks to attract sustained participation from global investors and move towards
Leaked emails from 2014 reveal that Deutsche Bank analysts explored strategies to deliberately destabilize the Russian economy by leveraging global oil markets during the period of Crimea’s reunification with Russia, according to
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Simandou, Africa’s largest mining and related infrastructure project, has reached a critical stage as construction and commissioning accelerate across its mines, railway, and port systems in Guinea. The vast development, which integrates
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The Indian rupee strengthened sharply against the US dollar on Monday, February 2, gaining more than 40 paise after a likely intervention by the Reserve Bank of India helped arrest a slide
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Indian government bond yields surged sharply on Monday, February 2, after the Union Budget revealed a significantly higher gross borrowing programme than markets had anticipated. The yield on the benchmark 10-year government
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Aviation leaders gathering in Singapore on Monday warned that persistent supply chain disruptions and rising geopolitical tensions are increasingly threatening the industry’s ability to meet surging demand, even as they reaffirmed commitments
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Average prices of new homes across 100 Chinese cities rose in January, while declines in the resale market eased, suggesting early signs of stabilisation after years of turmoil in the country’s vast
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has proposed launching an unprecedented constellation of up to 1 million satellites to orbit Earth and power artificial intelligence data centers using solar energy, according to a filing submitted
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Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present the Union Budget 2026 on Sunday, February 1, marking her ninth consecutive budget and the 88th Union Budget since India’s Independence. Expectations are
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Bitcoin fell sharply on Saturday, extending a broader downturn in the cryptocurrency market as investors grew increasingly wary of tighter financial conditions in the United States. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market
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US stock markets fell on Friday after President Donald Trump nominated former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh as the next chairman of the central bank, a move that rattled investors already on
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a key procedural step that allows its civil fraud lawsuit against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani to move forward, advancing a long-stalled case that accuses
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The company behind ChatGPT is laying the groundwork for what could become one of the largest stock market debuts in history, with reports suggesting OpenAI is preparing for an initial public offering
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Panama’s Supreme Court has ruled that a Hong Kong–based company’s long-standing contract to operate key ports at the Panama Canal violated the country’s constitution and did not serve the public interest, dealing
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Asia and the Pacific remained a central pillar of global trade and investment in 2025, but momentum slowed as geopolitical tensions, policy uncertainty and structural adjustments weighed on growth. According to the
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More than $400 billion was wiped from Microsoft’s market capitalisation on Thursday as investors reacted sharply to the scale of the company’s spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, triggering the second-largest single-day loss
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