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By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland proposed updated rules to ensure major banks hold enough liquidity to absorb shocks, but the draft changes will cost banks little or nothing in...

By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Telecoms group Bharti Airtel said on Thursday it will invest 50 billion rupees ($673 million) in expanding its data centre business to meet customer demand i...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China Evergrande's wealth management unit has made a 10% repayment of wealth management products (WMPs) that are due by Sept 30, the indebted developer said on Thursday. The paymen...

PARIS (Reuters) - French supermarket group Carrefour's CEO Alexandre Bompard is examining options for sector consolidation and talks have taken place with the family behind the Auchan chain of stores,...

LISBON (Reuters) - Lingering uncertainty about rising inflation requires close monitoring by the European Central Bank, which sees it as a temporary trend, but it must be prepared to act flexibly, ECB...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand plans to introduce an estimated 45.4 billion baht ($1.34 billion) in stimulus to help smaller businesses retain jobs, its planning agency said on Thursday, as the tourism-...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's retail sales climbed for the seventh straight month in August, helped by a stabilising COVID-19 situation, an improved labour market and economic recovery and thanks ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's industry ministry on Thursday published its draft rule on data security for the industry and telecommunications sectors. Authorities in the world's No.2 economy are steppin...

By Hideyuki Sano and Tom Westbrook TOKYO/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Investors see Japan's new leader, Fumio Kishida, as a steady consensus-builder who can lead the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its c...

LONDON (Reuters) - The proportion of workers still on Britain's furlough programme, which closes on Thursday, fell to 5% during the two weeks to Sept. 19, down from 6% in the previous two weeks, an of...