World economy

24 Jul 2019

The Guardian described Boris Johnson as "someone who could easily be rejected as a `Guess Who’ character for looking too ridiculous to lead the country... a man whose DNA profile is the exact same as a Bernard Manning joke... "the clown is crowned as the country burns in hell”

19 Jul 2019

18 Jul 2019

18 Jul 2019

The IMF’s External Sector Report said the euro's real effective exchange rate was 8 per cent to 18 per cent too low for Germany's fundamentals while China's yuan showed wide divergences from an 11.5 per cent undervaluation to an 8.5 per cent overvaluation due to uncertainties over Beijing's policy outlook

15 Jul 2019

12 Jul 2019

The $16.8 billion project, once completed, would help cut down travel time between the two capitals to 20 minutes from the 3-hour ferry ride at present and give a big boost to China’s Belt and Road initiative

11 Jul 2019

President Joko Widodo’s plan is to market Batam, an island closer to Singapore’s Changi airport and the only free trade zone in Indonesia, to investors looking to relocate factories out of China amid a raging trade war between Beijing and Washington

11 Jul 2019

Indian professionals, being larger in numbers, have a waiting period is more than 10 years and this may go up to 70 years for those on the H1-B visa, as per some recent studies

10 Jul 2019

08 Jul 2019

Leaders at the African Union summit in Niger announced the launch of the 55-nation trade bloc that would bring together 1.3 billion people and create a $3.4 trillion economic powerhouse

01 Jul 2019

01 Jul 2019

Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, US President Donald Trump said the lifting the ban on Huawei would be part of a larger trade deal with China

24 Jun 2019

21 Jun 2019

17 Jun 2019

He said a thrust on export promotion at the state level will provide a boost to both income and employment

10 Jun 2019

Commerce and industry minister attending the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Trade and Investment and Digital Economy in Japan held bilateral meetings with a number of countries on the sidelines of the main event

06 Jun 2019

30 May 2019

China accounted for at least 71 per cent of mined output of rare earths last year, and an even higher percentage of processed rare earth compounds, while the US sourced 80 per cent of its rare earth imports from China from 2014 to 2017, according to US statistics

28 May 2019

24 May 2019

May’s departure will deepen the Brexit crisis as a new leader is likely to want a more decisive split, raising the chances of a confrontation with the EU and possibly a snap parliamentary election

22 May 2019

21 May 2019

The result was released a day ahead of schedule in the early hours today, amid fears of violent unrest after rival candidate Prabowo Subianto, 67, had alleged "widespread cheating" and warned of potential street protests

17 May 2019

17 May 2019

17 May 2019

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the US Department of Commerce has followed up President Trump’s executive order by adding Huawei Technologies Co and its affiliates to the Bureau’s (banned) Entity List