Oil prices dropped on Wednesday, as traders were cautious ahead of potentially gloomy manufacturing data and an annual meeting at Jackson Hole, where heavy-hitter central bankers including from the United States will talk interest rates.

South Africa and China on Wednesday signed deals covering emissions technology, electricity transmission and distribution, and nuclear power on the sidelines of the BRICS summit.

The world’s biggest digital companies will have nowhere to hide starting Friday, when the toughest EU rules on online content since social media first burst onto the scene enter into force.

The eurozone economy is contracting at its fastest rate in three years as a steep decline in manufacturing begins to spread to services, a key survey said Wednesday.

A lack of rain has cut cane yields in India

FBCCI chief meets US embassy's commercial counselor

Pakistan’s rupee closed at a record low of 299 rupees against the dollar in the interbank market on Tuesday following an easing in import restrictions that has lifted demand for the dollar, central bank data showed.

The dollar eased from recent 10-weak peaks on Tuesday as global risk appetite, hurt by a jump in US government bond yields and a weakening Chinese economy, staged a rebound.

India is not considering imposing any restrictions on exports of non-basmati parboiled rice, Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra said on Tuesday.

Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday as investors remained downbeat on China’s economic malaise hobbling demand from the world’s top crude importer, limiting the impact of supply cuts.

A six-member BGMEA delegation is now visiting Iraq

59 trucks brought in around 1,800 tonnes of the bulb

Indian food secretary says

Funding risks and weaker profitability will likely test the sector's credit strength

Germany’s “lacklustre” economy will likely stagnate again in the third quarter, the Bundesbank central bank said Monday, as weak demand from abroad and high interest rates takes their toll on Europe’s industrial powerhouse.

China’s central bank on Monday cut a key interest rate in an attempt to counter the post-Covid growth slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy.

Sri Lanka’s consumer inflation rate more than halved to 4.6 percent year-on-year in July, helped by falling food prices, the statistics department said on Monday.

The Indian rupee ended little changed after trading in a narrow band on Monday, on likely dollar-selling intervention by the central bank which helped the currency navigate the decline in its the Asian peers.

India’s central bank is nudging local banks to ask their clients to settle trade between the United Arab Emirates and India using the dirham (AED) or Indian rupee (INR) to reduce US-dollar-based transactions, five sources told Reuters.

Asean is intensifying its economic integration to improve cross-border trade and investment flows, including by unlocking a potential US$2 trillion (S$2.7 trillion) in its digital economy by 2030