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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's financial regulator has launched an inspection into short selling of shares by major brokerages and branches of foreign firms as part of efforts to tighten supervision ...

By Xie Yu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Stock and bond markets attempted to steady on Tuesday, as investors turned their focus to this week's U.S. labour market report, to gauge if interest rate hikes that ha...

(Reuters) - Jackson, Mississippi, stopped producing running water for much of the city on Monday after flooding damaged its main treatment plant, leading officials to declare an emergency and begin al...

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian regulator sent legal letters to Facebook owner Meta Platforms, Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp demanding they share their strategies for stamping out child ...

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar languished on Tuesday after being beaten back from a two-decade high versus major peers by a reinvigorated euro. The tables turned for the two currencies...

By Jihoon Lee and Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Tuesday it would cut annual government spending for the first time in over a decade next year, as it seeks to curb its pandemic-era ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Motiva Enterprises restarted the large hydrocracker at its 626,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery over the weekend after completing repairs to the large hydrocra...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Jill Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 and will return to Washington from Delaware on Aug. 30, a spokeswoman said on Monday. Jill Biden, 71, had tested posi...

SEOUL (Reuters) - The head of South Korea's central bank said on Tuesday his bank's monetary policy stance would not change after a speech last week by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell who said the...