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South Korean economy faces downside risks: minister

The nation’s economy is heading toward uncertain territory due to a variety of factors at home and abroad which could restrict its growth, said Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki on Thursday.
23 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Fed sharpens tools to fight inflation

The Federal Reserve has its inflation-fighting weapons ready to fire, and when the US central bank’s policy committee convenes this coming week, the focus will not be on whether they will pull the trigger but rather how many times.
23 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Airbus cancels Qatar Airways plane order

Airbus has taken the extraordinary step of cancelling a multi-billion-dollar order of 50 planes from Qatar Airways, a major customer, in an escalating feud over the airline’s grounding of A350 aircraft.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM

US steps up pressure on Mexico over energy reforms

US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Friday she had raised the Joe Biden administration’s “real concerns” about Mexico’s planned energy sector reforms, stepping up pressure on the major trading partner.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Biden hails Intel’s $20b chip plant investment

President Joe Biden on Friday praised Intel’s plans to spend $20 billion on a new US semiconductor facility, hailing the “historic” investment even as a global chip shortage fans the inflation wave weighing on his leadership.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM

EU nations quarrel over whether nuclear, gas are ‘green’

Hours before the window for lodging objections closes, EU environment and energy ministers meeting in France Friday differed sharply on a European Commission provision that would classify nuclear and natural gas energy as “sustainable”.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM

UK retail sales suffer record drop on Omicron fears

British retail sales suffered a record drop in December as consumers shunned the high street due to Omicron concerns, having snapped up Christmas purchases the previous month, data showed Friday.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM

UK retail sales suffer record drop on Omicron fears

British retail sales suffered a record drop in December as consumers shunned the high street due to Omicron concerns, having snapped up Christmas purchases the previous month, data showed Friday.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM

More foreign firms leaving Myanmar

The announcements Friday by TotalEnergies and Chevron have swelled the ranks of foreign firms that have quit Myanmar after the February military coup.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Sri Lanka inflation hits record 14pc

Sri Lanka consumer prices shot up a record 14 per cent in December, surpassing a previous high of 11.1 from a month earlier, official figures showed on Saturday as food and fuel shortages worsen.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM

United Airlines reports Q4 loss

United Airlines reported another quarterly loss Wednesday on the lingering drag from Covid-19 but offered an upbeat outlook on a travel comeback later in 2022 and in future years.
20 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Biden must tighten focus on economy before midterms: Democrats

With his party splintered and Democrats across the coalition that elected him in 2020 unhappy, President Joe Biden has just a few months to try to chart a path out of the malaise or risk getting swamped in the looming midterm elections in which Republicans are seeking to regain control of Congress.
20 January 2022, 18:00 PM

China cuts key rates, steps up monetary stimulus

China lowered mortgage lending benchmark rates on Thursday as monetary authorities step up efforts to prop up the slowing economy, after data earlier in the week pointed to a darkening outlook for the country’s troubled property sector.
20 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Canadian inflation hits 30-year high

Consumer prices in Canada exploded to a 30-year-high in December, partly due to supply chain disruption, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
20 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka hikes interest rates

Sri Lanka’s central bank hiked interest rates Thursday in a bid to tame rampant inflation and discourage consumer spending as the country suffers a foreign currency shortage and teeters on the brink of default.
20 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Fight to lower US inflation will be a haul: Biden

Lowering the record rate of US inflation will  “be a haul,” President Joe Biden said Wednesday, but he insisted the price increases will subside if supply chain snarls and component shortages are resolved.
20 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Dollar price may cross 200 Pakistani rupees

The dollar price may cross Rs200 with the sudden imposition of a withholding tax on exchange companies, which are getting notices to the tune of hundreds of millions of rupees from the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
20 January 2022, 07:23 AM

UK inflation hits 30-year high

British annual inflation accelerated to a near 30-year high in December, official data showed Wednesday, stoking fears over a cost of living squeeze as wages fail to keep pace.
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Tourism won’t return to pre-Covid levels until 2024: UN

Tourism arrivals around the world are not expected to return to their pre-pandemic levels until 2024 at the earliest, the World Tourism Organization said Tuesday.
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM

ExxonMobil targets net zero emissions by 2050

ExxonMobil pledged Tuesday to reach  “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions in its operations by 2050, but stopped short of extending the promise to products it sells throughout the global economy.
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM