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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan may see consumer inflation creep up and stay near the central bank's 2% target for a prolonged period if the war in Ukraine continues to drive commodity prices ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will seek World Bank assistance to stave off a severe economic crisis in addition to an International Monetary Fund (IM...

By Kaori Kaneko and Takahiko Wada TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is considering requiring companies' annual reports to disclose average wages by gender and the ratio of female managers, said two people with ...

By Eileen Soreng and Praveen Menon (Reuters) - Russia might look to its giant neighbour to replace Australian alumina supplies cut off by sanctions, but Chinese aluminium smelters need all the feedsto...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo prosecutors have arrested SMBC Nikko Securities Vice President Toshihiro Sato for alleged market manipulation, the Nikkei newspaper said on Thursday. Sato had been asked to tur...

By Harshita Swaminathan (Reuters) - Investors stayed bearish on most emerging Asian currencies and turned short on Thailand's baht for the first time in three months, as uncertainty from Russia's inva...

By Yuka Obayashi and Heekyong Yang TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian importers of Russian gas were scrambling on Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin said "unfriendly" countries must pay for Russian ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish media group NENT, which is planning to enter Britain later this year with its streaming service Viaplay, said on Thursday it would now add live sports to its content line...

LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyd's of London faces major claims this year from the conflict in Ukraine, but this will not create solvency difficulties, the commercial insurance market said on Thursday. Lloyd'...

ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS and Credit Suisse have made further progress in how they would stabilise and restructure themselves in a financial crisis, Swiss financial watchdog FINMA said on Thursday. Big S...