World economy

US may slap tariffs on $200 bn more of Chinese goods, but at 10%

17 Sep 2018

Biodiversity loss: Political actions are required, not additional scientific knowledge

14 Sep 2018

European Commission chief Juncker wants EU to fill vacuum left by US

12 Sep 2018

Wealthy countries less concerned about energy security, study suggests

12 Sep 2018

Trump asks Apple to pull out of China as trade war escalates

10 Sep 2018

US President Donald Trump called for Apple to make its products in the US instead of China, even as he threatened to impose levies on all of Chinese goods imported to the United States

Trump asks Apple to pull out of China as trade war escalates

10 Sep 2018

US President Donald Trump called for Apple to make its products in the US instead of China, even as he threatened to impose levies on all of Chinese goods imported to the United States

Turkey calls for truce as Russia, Syria seek to regain control of Idlib

07 Sep 2018

Greener growth could add $26 trn to world economy by 2030: report

06 Sep 2018

Greener growth could generate over 65 million new low-carbon jobs, avoid over 700,000 premature deaths and generate an estimated $2.8 trillion in government revenues per year in 2030 - equivalent to the total GDP of India today, says the report

Did death rate affect the 2016 US presidential elections?

06 Sep 2018

New analysis shows that relatively modest incremental reductions in age-adjusted, county-level death rates could have had an influence on voting in swing states

China offers to invest $60-billion in Africa amidst BOR woes

04 Sep 2018

China's belt and road projects jam nations’ finances: report

03 Sep 2018

The report comes ahead of a summit of African leaders in Beijing focused on China’s `Belt and Road’ project

BISTEC pledges peaceful, sustainable Bay of Bengal region

31 Aug 2018

The `Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development’ adopted at the summit acknowledges the need for enhanced inter-linkages and inter-dependence within the economies and societies in the BIMSTEC member states

Trump threatens to pull US out of `unfair’ WTO: report

31 Aug 2018

With China moving the WTO against the US against its impost of tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods, a pull-out from the global trade body is the only way to ward off challenges

Trump allows targeted relief on steel, aluminium quotas

30 Aug 2018

Trump allows targeted relief on steel, aluminium quotas

30 Aug 2018

US, Canada wow new NAFTA deal by Friday

30 Aug 2018

After Monday’s deal with Mexico, US President Donald Trump is upbeat on signing a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada by Friday

US, Mexico sign into new deal ahead of overhauling NAFTA

28 Aug 2018

US President Donald Trump said negotiations with Canada will start soon, but incorporating Canada into an overhauled NAFTA will depend on the outcome of talks

Scott Morrison to become Australia's next prime minister

25 Aug 2018

Morrison, Australia's fifth prime minister in so many years and the sixth in less than 10 years, will lead a coalition between the Liberal and National parties with a one-seat majority

US, China trade war escalates with tariffs on $16bn imports as talks fail

24 Aug 2018

Instead, the US last night imposed a 25 per cent tariff on $16 billion worth of Chinese goods coming into the US and China responded tit-for-tat, bringing the fresh tariffs on bilateral trade to $106 billion, or roughly 17 per cent of all US-China trade

How the United States landed in a debt 'danger zone'

24 Aug 2018

China shifts to Iranian tankers to keep oil flowing amid US sanctions

21 Aug 2018

China, Iran’s biggest oil customer, wants to keep buying Iranian crude even as the United States is trying to halt Iranian oil exports to curb its influence in the Middle East

China gets Iranian oil on Persian tankers

21 Aug 2018

North and South Korean leaders plan summit in September

14 Aug 2018

UK Indians protest pro-Khalistan rally in London

13 Aug 2018

Japan's economy bounces back with 1.9% growth in April-June quarter

10 Aug 2018