Category: BUSINESS

Asian stocks at three-week lows on weak China data; dollar strong

Asian stocks at three-week lows on weak China data; dollar strong

Oct 13, 2016

Asian stocks stumbled to three-week lows and U.S. stock futures and Treasury yields fell after China's September trade data showed ... Read More

Asia Markets Hit by US Rate Fear, Samsung dips further

Asia Markets Hit by US Rate Fear, Samsung dips further

Oct 12, 2016

Asian markets retreated on Wednesday (Oct 12) on fears about an expected US interest rate rise this year, while the ... Read More

Sri Lankan rupee edges up on exporter dollar sales; shares down

Sri Lankan rupee edges up on exporter dollar sales; shares down

Oct 12, 2016

The Sri Lankan rupee edged up on Wednesday as dollar selling by exporters outpaced importer demand for the greenback ahead ... Read More

Oil glut to Last Until Mid-2017 Unless OPEC Cuts Output: IEA

Oil glut to Last Until Mid-2017 Unless OPEC Cuts Output: IEA

Oct 12, 2016

A massive oil glut may weigh on world markets deep into next year unless the OPEC producer cartel makes good ... Read More

Sri Lankan Rupee Edges up on Dollar Selling by Exporters

Sri Lankan Rupee Edges up on Dollar Selling by Exporters

Oct 11, 2016

The Sri Lankan rupee edged up on Tuesday, recovering after three straight sessions of losses on dollar selling by exporters, ... Read More

Airbus to cut A380 assembly rate to one aircraft per month from 2018

Airbus to cut A380 assembly rate to one aircraft per month from 2018

Oct 11, 2016

Airbus plans to slow the assembly rate of its A380 superjumbo to one aircraft per month from 2018, the head ... Read More

US oil prices close at US$51.35 a barrel, highest for 2016

US oil prices close at US$51.35 a barrel, highest for 2016

Oct 11, 2016

US oil prices finished at their highest level of 2016 on Monday (Oct 10) after President Vladimir Putin said Russia ... Read More

Facebook Pays More UK Tax After Outcry

Facebook Pays More UK Tax After Outcry

Oct 10, 2016

Facebook paid £4.17 million ($5.18 million, 4.63 million euros) in British corporation tax last year, up from just £4,327 in ... Read More

Samsung Electronics Suspends Galaxy Note 7 Production

Samsung Electronics Suspends Galaxy Note 7 Production

Oct 10, 2016

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has suspended production of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones following reports of fires in replacement devices, ... Read More

Boeing Delivers Fewer Planes in Third Quarter, Orders Fall

Boeing Delivers Fewer Planes in Third Quarter, Orders Fall

Oct 7, 2016

Boeing Co said it delivered 188 commercial aircraft in the third quarter, down from 199 a year earlier, as deliveries ... Read More

World Bank, IMF Challenged by Anti-Globalisation Wave

World Bank, IMF Challenged by Anti-Globalisation Wave

Oct 7, 2016

Global finance leaders on Thursday (Oct 6) publicly confronted the rising unpopularity of trade liberalisation, saying world economies needed to ... Read More

Asian stocks track Wall St rally after US data

Asian stocks track Wall St rally after US data

Oct 6, 2016

Asian markets rose on Thursday (Oct 6), while the dollar strengthened further on growing expectations the US will hike interest ... Read More

Sri Lankan Rupee Falls Slightly on Importer Dollar Demand

Sri Lankan Rupee Falls Slightly on Importer Dollar Demand

Oct 6, 2016

The Sri Lankan rupee edged down on Thursday due to importer dollar demand in the absence of central bank intervention, ... Read More

OPEC, non-OPEC producers plan informal meet in Istanbul to discuss Algiers deal: Algeria

OPEC, non-OPEC producers plan informal meet in Istanbul to discuss Algiers deal: Algeria

Oct 6, 2016

OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers plan an informal meeting in Istanbul Oct. 8-13 to discuss how to implement a production ... Read More

Most Asia Stocks Down as Bank Policy Fears Return

Most Asia Stocks Down as Bank Policy Fears Return

Oct 5, 2016

Expectations the US will hike interest rates and the EU will also tighten monetary policy dragged most Asian and European ... Read More