China’s manufacturing activity fell for a fourth straight month in July while the services and construction sectors teetered on the brink of contraction, official surveys showed on Monday, threatening growth prospects for the third quarter.

Chinese authorities announced new measures to boost consumption on Monday, as fresh economic data suggested that the country’s post-Covid recovery is running out of steam and growth is slowing.

Oil inventories are beginning to fall in some regions as demand outpaces supply constrained by deep production cuts from Opec leader Saudi Arabia, providing support for prices which are expected to rise in coming months.

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A Walmart spokesperson confirmed the transaction in an emailed response to Reuters but did not comment on financial details of the deal.

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru.

A key indicator of US inflation cooled in June to the lowest annual rate in over two years, although this remains above the central bank’s target, according to government data released Friday.

Oil prices rose on Friday and notched a fifth straight week of gains as investors were optimistic that healthy demand and supply cuts will keep prices buoyant.

Shell joined other energy majors Thursday in posting sliding profits after oil and gas prices weakened from peaks reached in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A Liberian-flagged oil tanker set sail in May from Russia’s Ust-Luga port carrying crude on behalf of a little-known trading company based in Hong Kong. Before the ship had even reached its destination in India, the cargo changed hands.

The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate on Wednesday to the highest level since 2001 to tackle above-target inflation, and signaled it could hike again later this year amid improving economic prospects.

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The Biden administration is poised to increase outreach to western trading houses, insurers and tanker owners to remind them to abide by the Group of Seven's price cap on Russian oil as the crude trades over that level, sources and experts said.

Samsung Electronics on Thursday said the worst is over for the global memory chip market but announced plans to extend production cuts because a demand recovery is largely constrained to high-end chips used in artificial intelligence.

Consumer companies and economists have said sentiment in China is slower than expected, but that’s not stopping them from buying more condoms, Durex maker Reckitt said on Wednesday.

The dollar edged lower on Wednesday but hovered close to a two-week high ahead of an expected US Federal Reserve interest rate rise later in the day, with investors focused on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s upcoming comments.

Europe’s major banks, including Deutsche Bank and Lloyds Banking Group, on Wednesday pointed to the rising risk of bad loans as the global economy struggles with slow growth and high inflation.

India is open to Chinese investment despite border clashes between the two countries, the Deputy Minister for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar told the Financial Times in a report published on Wednesday.

The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, marking the 11th hike in the US. central bank's past 12 policy meetings and possibly a last move in its aggressive battle to tame inflation.