CHINA'S imports and exports both fell at a faster rate in June, official data showed Wednesday, in the latest poor indicator for the world's second-largest economy.

Their heads bowed, young Saudi men concentrate on exam papers in a workshop filled with industrial machines that will help them earn a living.

US import prices rose less than expected in June as rising costs for petroleum products were offset by declining consumer and capital goods prices, suggesting inflation could remain benign for a while.

Germany's 'Energiewende' or energy transition is its biggest infrastructure project of the post-World War II era, and its greatest national challenge since reunification in 1990.

Venezuela's howling economic woes have worsened as Citibank closed the government's overseas payments account and multinational firms are packing up and leaving.

Car sales growth in China, the top global auto market, accelerated for the second consecutive month, an industry group reported Monday, despite continued woes in the world's second-largest economy.

Boeing on Monday boosted its 20-year forecast for the global aircraft market, lifted by demand from budget carriers and emerging markets, as it revealed a new multi-billion dollar deal to sell planes in China.

German property firms expect a boom in Frankfurt as financial businesses move activities and staff out of London in the wake of Brexit, an industry survey showed on Monday.

BRITAIN might be a world away, but the future of a 500-year-old family company in rural Japan could rest on the UK's decision to quit the European Union.

Thomson Reuters Corp said it agreed to sell its intellectual property and science business to private equity firms Onex Corp and Baring Private Equity Asia for $3.55 billion in cash.

Shares in Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd soared again on Monday, bringing market-value gains to $7.5 billion in just two days as investors cheered the runaway success of Pokemon GO - its first long-awaited venture in mobile gaming.

Virgin Atlantic announced Monday that it has made firm orders for twelve wide-bodied Airbus A350-1000 jets, worth $4.4 billion (3.9 billion euros) at list prices, in the first major announcement at Farnborough.

The Frankfurt stock exchange said Monday that it is examining whether to lower a key hurdle for its planned merger with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to go ahead.

Tesla Motors Inc CEO Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted his intention to soon publish part two of his "top secret Tesla masterplan" following an embattled several weeks for the Silicon Valley heavyweight.

Oil fell on Monday over signs that US shale drillers have adapted to lower prices and on renewed indications of economic weakness in Asia where refiners are already trimming crude runs.

The OECD said Monday it is suspending for two months its composite leading indicators (CLIs) designed to flag turning points in economic activity due to volatility heightened by Brexit.

Ukraine and Canada signed a "milestone" free trade agreement on Monday designed to bolster support for the war-scarred former Soviet republic in the face of an increasingly assertive Russia.

Amid fears of a fiscal "race to the bottom" French Finance Minister Michel Sapin on Monday slammed British plans to reduce corporation tax as part of plans to keep attracting foreign investment after last month's Brexit vote.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday his government would consider giving Tanzania, where he's visiting, a $500 million loan to finance water projects in the east African nation.

China is set to make good on a promise to invest two billion euros ($2.21 billion) in the European Union's new infrastructure fund at a summit in Beijing on Wednesday, officials say, a gesture aimed partly at easing tensions over other issues.