Tokyo, Osaka top trending destinations for summer travel

Mastercard Economics Institute says in its report on travel trends in 2025
15 May 2025, 11:54 AM

Trump: India has offered US a trade deal with no tariffs

The United States is India's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade totalling some $129 billion in 2024
15 May 2025, 08:14 AM

UK economy beats forecast to grow 0.7% in first quarter

Gross domestic product rose 0.7 percent in the January-to-March period
15 May 2025, 07:07 AM

Nissan is rolling out big cuts. Turning around sales will prove harder

Nissan's sales have plunged 42 percent since the 2017 business year
15 May 2025, 05:16 AM

Stocks drop as fresh trade news awaited, oil down on Iran hopes

News that Beijing was suspending some non-tariff countermeasures on US entities for 90 days following the superpowers' weekend truce did little to inject much more enthusiasm
15 May 2025, 05:12 AM

IMF loan tranches: Agreement with IMF at last

The government has reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund for the fourth and fifth tranche of the $4.7 billion loan programme, putting to bed months of uncertainty over their disbursement.
14 May 2025, 18:10 PM

'Panic and paralysis': US firms fret despite China tariff reprieve

Trump's escalating trade war since his return to office saw US duties on Chinese goods -- including toys -- reach a whopping 145 percent
14 May 2025, 08:01 AM

US inflation cooled in April as Trump began tariff rollout

he consumer price index (CPI) eased to 2.3 percent in April
14 May 2025, 07:00 AM

US President Trump blinked in trade war with China. Can Southeast Asia get a break, too?

It took one weekend in Geneva for US President Donald Trump to roll back what has been seen till now as the raison d’etre of his presidency
14 May 2025, 05:06 AM

Trump says 'very strong' trade deal with China will see it 'open up'

US President Donald Trump said Washington had the blueprint for a "very, very strong" trade deal with China
14 May 2025, 02:30 AM

Bepza secures $480 million investment this fiscal year so far

Today, Chinese firm Qingdao Dongfang agreed to invest $4.5 million in Ishwardi EPZ
13 May 2025, 11:46 AM

China lifts Boeing ban after US trade talks: report

Last month the American aircraft maker confirmed that Chinese airlines had stopped accepting delivery of new planes due to huge tit-for-tat levies imposed by both sides.
13 May 2025, 08:03 AM

Most Asian markets extend rally in glow of China-US truce

Equity markets across the world rallied with oil and the dollar
13 May 2025, 05:26 AM

Remittance crosses $25b this fiscal year

Remittance inflow in the first ten months and eleven days of this fiscal year surpassed $25 billion, breaking all previous records.
12 May 2025, 18:04 PM
12 May 2025, 12:02 PM

Stocks, dollar up on US-China trade promise, detail needed

Investors are hoping the White House will soon scale back the 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods
12 May 2025, 06:00 AM

US, China to publish details of 'substantial' trade talks in Geneva

The trade spat between Washington and Beijing has rocked financial markets and raised fears of a global economic slowdown and an inflationary spike in the United States
12 May 2025, 04:00 AM

Wary investors hope US-China talks cool high-stakes trade war

"There are hundreds of billions of dollars of trade on the line."
11 May 2025, 08:11 AM

Trump says will increase trade 'substantially' with India, Pakistan

"I am going to increase trade, substantially, with both of these great Nations," he posted on TruthSocial
11 May 2025, 05:42 AM

US-China talks to defuse trade war begin in Geneva

Senior US and Chinese officials were meeting in Geneva yesterday in a bid to de-escalate a trade war sparked by President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff roll-out and further fuelled by Beijing’s robust retaliation.
10 May 2025, 09:07 AM