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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer inflation likely accelerated in March from a year earlier but was still well short of the Bank of Japan's price goal, a Reuters poll showed, bolstering the view...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's new home prices stalled for a second straight month in March, official data showed on Friday, as growing COVID-19 lockdowns dampened consumer confidence and weighed on deman...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's central bank kept borrowing costs of its medium-term policy loan unchanged for the third straight month as expected on Friday, despite Beijing calling for more monetary sti...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the central bank's monetary policy is aimed at achieving its 2% inflation target, not at manipulating currency rates, brushi...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Automakers in China may have to suspend production in May if suppliers in Shanghai and surrounding areas are not able to resume work, He Xiaopeng, the chief executive officer of C...

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar rose to a two-decade peak against the yen and kept close to a two-year high to the euro on Friday, as more hawkish comments from Federal Reserve official...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Italian confectionary giant Ferrero said it will stop sourcing palm oil from Sime Darby Plantation after the U.S. customs service found the Malaysian planter used forced labou...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A wealthy former Democratic Party activist convicted of giving fatal doses of methamphetamine to two men he invited to his suburban Los Angeles home for sex was sentenced on Th...

By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai masters student Dhidhaj Sumedhsvast didn't believe in fortune-telling or supernatural powers until the coronavirus pandemic started two years ago. N...

(Reuters) - Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Loretta Mester on Thursday pushed back against the idea that by raising interest rates the Fed is prioritizing its goal of achieving 2% inflation o...