Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he has no intention for now to raise the sales tax as his government sets off on a plan to boost military spending and provide financial incentives to help reverse a falling birthrate.
Credit concerns over Egypt are having a spillover effect on Africa’s high-yield sovereigns, according to strategists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Turkey’s tightened grip over financial markets has put Istanbul’s 15th-century Grand Bazaar back at the center of the nation’s commercial activity, as one of history’s first shopping malls becomes a refuge for modern currency traders seeking to escape the reach of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
International Business Machines Corp. gave a forecast for annual revenue in line with analysts’ projections, delivering a cautiously optimistic signal about technology spending in an uncertain economy.
Taiwan’s export orders in March plunged by the most since the global financial crisis as global demand for semiconductors shows little sign of improving.
Renault SA slumped the most in more than six months on concerns that pricing pressure across the auto industry may derail the French carmaker’s recovery.
(Bloomberg) — The German government must adopt more cautious fiscal policies that complement the European Central Bank’s efforts to tackle inflation in order to help the economy, the country’s deputy finance minister, Florian Toncar, told Bloomberg Television.
Companies are working to extract the valuable metal from saltwater underneath old wells.
Turkey’s main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu made a rare acknowledgment of his roots as part of the country’s biggest religious minority, his latest pitch for support ahead of next month’s election against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
A court in India denied Rahul Gandhi’s appeal to suspend his defamation conviction, a setback to the opposition leader who has been sentenced to two years in jail and disqualified from parliament over the charge.
