Foreign-owned firms get easier access to external loans
Star Business Report
16 July 2026, 00:00 AM Global Economy
Empty skyscrapers: China’s property slump still throttling growth
AFP, Tianjin
16 July 2026, 00:00 AM Global Economy
India approves $13b semiconductor plan
AFP, New Delhi
16 July 2026, 00:00 AM Global Economy
Oil rises 2% as Mideast hostilities worsen
REUTERS
16 July 2026, 00:00 AM Global Economy
US inflation cools in June before renewed Mideast fighting
AFP, Washington
16 July 2026, 00:00 AM Global Economy
Dollar on back foot
REUTERS
16 July 2026, 00:00 AM Global Economy
US inflation cools in June before renewed Mideast fighting
AFP, Washington
15 July 2026, 14:33 PM Business
Oil traders call Trump’s Hormuz bluff at their peril
REUTERS, London
15 July 2026, 00:00 AM Global Economy
US pays back $81b in tariffs ruled illegal by Supreme Court
AFP, Washington
15 July 2026, 00:00 AM Global Economy

Trump to ask Supreme Court for ‘expedited ruling’

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to seek a swift ruling from the Supreme Court as his administration pushes to overturn a court decision that found many of his tariffs illegal.
3 September 2025, 18:00 PM

China backseat driving risks sending AI off course

China’s economy is a study in contradictions. Decades of centralised industrial planning in China have led to endemic overcapacity, which in turn has fuelled destructive price wars across an array of sectors. Yet Beijing’s approach, for all its flaws, also helped create world-class corporate champions like electric-car maker BYD. Officials now want to curb what they call “disorderly competition” in the booming $140 billion artificial intelligence sector. There is some logic to intervening, but that will come at a cost.
3 September 2025, 18:00 PM

US holiday spending set for steepest drop since pandemic, PwC survey shows

Shoppers on average plan to spend about $1,552 per person, down 5.3 percent from last year
3 September 2025, 08:08 AM

Saudi Arabia targets 150m visitors by 2030 with Ronaldo campaign

The kingdom has committed $800 billion to tourism under Vision 2030, aiming to boost GDP, jobs and infrastructure.
3 September 2025, 07:43 AM

Gold races to all-time high above $3,500

Gold prices scaled the $3,500 per ounce level to hit a record high on Tuesday, as mounting expectations for a U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate cut this month lifted demand for the precious metal.
2 September 2025, 18:00 PM

India in talks with US for trade agreement, says Indian trade minister

India's trade minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday
2 September 2025, 07:44 AM

Gold price hits record above $3,500

The precious metal reached $3,501.59 an ounce during early trading in Asia
2 September 2025, 06:41 AM

ECB's Lagarde warns of risk to world economy via Trump interference on Fed

Trump has repeatedly attacked the Fed's chair, Jerome Powell, for not cutting the short-term interest rate
1 September 2025, 07:45 AM

China manufacturing shrinks for 5th month

China’s factory output ticked up in August but still recorded a fifth straight month of contraction, official data showed Sunday, as Beijing and Washington press on with trade talks.
31 August 2025, 18:00 PM

India boosts oil purchases from US to narrow trade deficit

Indian refiners boosted US crude oil purchases this month, drawn by competitive prices, trade sources said, a move that could help narrow the country’s trade deficit with the United States amid tensions between the two nations.
31 August 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump demand for Japan to buy more US rice snagged trade talks, Nikkei says

One official criticised the proposal as an "interference in domestic affairs," the business daily said
31 August 2025, 07:12 AM

Japan pledges $68b investment in India

Japan pledged Friday to invest $68 billion in India during a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Tokyo, as the two countries agreed to deepen security ties.
30 August 2025, 18:00 PM

US appeals court finds Trump’s global tariffs illegal

A US appeals court on Friday ruled that many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have upended global trade, were illegal -- but allowed them to remain in place for now, giving him time to take the fight to the Supreme Court.
30 August 2025, 18:00 PM

India growth beats forecasts, but tariff concerns cloud outlook

The quarterly performance was also helped by decent manufacturing sector growth and improved consumer sentiment
30 August 2025, 07:48 AM

India will not 'bow down', trade minister says after US tariffs

The latest tariffs salvo from Trump has strained US-India ties, with New Delhi earlier criticising the levies as "unfair, unjustified and unreasonable".
30 August 2025, 06:29 AM

Nvidia is AI, but only for so long

Nvidia and artificial intelligence are practically synonymous. Its class-leading chips are essential: the more efficiently they can crunch bits, the better or cheaper models from the likes of OpenAI or Anthropic can run.
28 August 2025, 18:07 PM

India extends exemption of cotton import duty till Dec

India has extended the exemption of import duty on cotton until December 31 this year to ease supply pressure on its textile export sector, which has been facing steep tariffs in the United States.
28 August 2025, 18:00 PM

Foreign debt repayment surges 16% in July

Bangladesh’s external debt servicing surged 16 percent year-on-year in the first month of the current fiscal year (FY) 2025-26, while inflows from bilateral and multilateral lenders fell sharply.
28 August 2025, 18:00 PM

Indian exporters eye Bangladesh as tariff workaround for US market

Indian textile sector mulls shifting final manufacturing to Bangladesh to avoid US tariff
28 August 2025, 08:42 AM

Asia's pledge to boost US farm imports may redraw trade flows

Southeast Asian nations look to US to fill rising food demand
28 August 2025, 05:42 AM