Shoppers on average plan to spend about $1,552 per person, down 5.3 percent from last year

The kingdom has committed $800 billion to tourism under Vision 2030, aiming to boost GDP, jobs and infrastructure.

India's trade minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday

The precious metal reached $3,501.59 an ounce during early trading in Asia

Trump has repeatedly attacked the Fed's chair, Jerome Powell, for not cutting the short-term interest rate

China’s factory output ticked up in August but still recorded a fifth straight month of contraction, official data showed Sunday, as Beijing and Washington press on with trade talks.

Indian refiners boosted US crude oil purchases this month, drawn by competitive prices, trade sources said, a move that could help narrow the country’s trade deficit with the United States amid tensions between the two nations.

One official criticised the proposal as an "interference in domestic affairs," the business daily said

A US appeals court on Friday ruled that many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have upended global trade, were illegal -- but allowed them to remain in place for now, giving him time to take the fight to the Supreme Court.

The quarterly performance was also helped by decent manufacturing sector growth and improved consumer sentiment

The latest tariffs salvo from Trump has strained US-India ties, with New Delhi earlier criticising the levies as "unfair, unjustified and unreasonable".

India has extended the exemption of import duty on cotton until December 31 this year to ease supply pressure on its textile export sector, which has been facing steep tariffs in the United States.

Bangladesh’s external debt servicing surged 16 percent year-on-year in the first month of the current fiscal year (FY) 2025-26, while inflows from bilateral and multilateral lenders fell sharply.

Indian textile sector mulls shifting final manufacturing to Bangladesh to avoid US tariff

Southeast Asian nations look to US to fill rising food demand

India saved billions of dollars by stepping up imports of discounted Russian oil in the wake of the war in Ukraine, but punitive tariffs imposed by the US that came into effect on Wednesday will quickly undo the gains, with no easy solutions in sight.

LDC graduation a turning point for local plastics industry

Exceptions are shipments in transit, humanitarian aid, and items under reciprocal trade programmes

The exemption will take effect once both sides reach a final pact

Trump cites mortgage fraud allegations in move to oust Federal Reserve's Cook