India's gold imports may rise in the fourth quarter as investors seek alternatives to faltering equity markets and a plunging rupee at the same time traditional buying will rise during the festival season, said multiple sources involved in the market.

Italy's populist government will cut its budget deficit targets from 2020, Economy Minister Giovanni Tria said on Wednesday, after investors sold off Italian assets and European Union ministers criticized its plans to jack up spending next year.

General Motors and Honda have joined forces with the tech firm Cruise to develop autonomous vehicles as the race to market self-driving cars continues, the companies announced Wednesday.

Executives at the world's biggest oil and gas companies are under growing pressure to loosen the purse strings to replenish reserves, halt output declines and take advantage of a crude price rally after years of austerity.

India's cabinet is set to raise the state-mandated prices for winter-sown crops such as wheat later on Wednesday, two government sources said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries to tackle rising discontent among farmers amid a price slump.

The Federal Reserve painted a picture of the US economy that was almost too good to be true at its last meeting, with inflation seen contained in the near future despite the lowest unemployment rate in 20 years.

The annual inflation rate in Turkey rose to nearly 25 percent in September, official statistics showed on Wednesday, as the Turkish lira remains weak against the US dollar despite a sharp interest rate hike last month.

Shares in luxury automaker Aston Martin fell as much as 6.5 percent on their market debut in London on Wednesday as investors and analysts raised concerns over its ability to deliver an ambitious roll-out of new models.

Almost all major auto makers reported North American sales declines on Tuesday, meeting analyst expectations for a pull-back by consumers in the second half of the year.

Japan's economic output exceeded its full capacity by the most in more than a decade in the second quarter, a hopeful sign for inflation as policymakers bet a strengthening economic recovery will help accelerate consumer prices to their 2 percent target.

Britain's biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has yet to make an imminent decision on whether to build electric cars in its home market partly due to uncertainty over the final Brexit terms, its boss told Reuters on Tuesday.

Australia's central bank held interest rates at a record low on Tuesday even as the economy grows strongly, with officials taking into account soft inflation figures and weak wages growth.

PepsiCo Inc reported quarterly revenue above Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, as investments in marketing and developing new products for Latin America paid off.

Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it is raising its minimum wage to $15 per hour for all US employees including full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees, starting Nov. 1.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is set to post a hefty jump in third-quarter profit to record levels after its chip unit put in a sterling performance on demand from data centers and improved production yields.

Canada's Justin Trudeau Monday hailed a new continental trade pact with the United States and Mexico as "profoundly beneficial" for Canadians -- but the prime minister must now sell the deal to skeptical dairy farmers, unions and voters.

US auto giant General Motors and its Chinese partner SAIC will recall 3.3 million vehicles in China over problems with their suspension system, in a fresh blow to GM as it braces for fallout from the China-US trade war.

Confidence among Japan's biggest manufacturers has slipped for the third straight quarter, a key central bank survey showed on Monday, reflecting concern about trade wars and a string of natural disasters.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Monday it would pump 360 billion Indian rupees ($4.95 billion) into money markets in October in its latest attempt to stem fears of a cascading credit crunch,

Opec delivered only a limited increase in oil production in September, a Reuters survey has found, as a cut in Iranian shipments due to US sanctions offset higher output in Libya, Saudi Arabia and Angola.