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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's key inflation rate eased to 50.3% in March from 50.6% in February, the statistics department said on Friday. The Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI...

(Reuters) - India's external debt rose 1.2% quarter-on-quarter to $613.1 billion as of end-December, the government said in a statement on Friday. The country's external debt-to-GDP ratio stood at the...

By Kane Wu and Yantoultra Ngui HONG KONG (Reuters) - Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the Asia-Pacific region fell to a decade low in the first three months of this year as a tumultuous geopolitical ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Friday that the federal government will cover for 30 days the full cost of Mississippi's emergency measures in response to last week's ...

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - From a red-hot January as China cast off COVID curbs to February's flop when interest rates surged and now a manic March of banking blow-ups - financial markets have h...

By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Alibaba's six-way breakup plan has raised questions about the long-term shape of its profitable cloud unit, given that it will have to tackle heavy regulatory scru...

(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were flat on Friday as investors steered clear of big bets ahead of crucial inflation data, amid receding fears of a banking crisis. The Commerce Department is exp...

By Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro, Echo Wang and Elisa Anzolin LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A banking crisis and worries of a recession have dampened the outlook for initial public offerings (IPOs) this year, pr...

(Reuters) - Efforts to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industry and store them underground have gathered pace across Europe over the past few years as countries scramble to meet climate goa...

By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) - Fresh competition in Brazil's lucrative meal voucher market must wait, according to people familiar with discussions between the Finance Ministry and central bank...