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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Swati Bhat COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's central bank sharply raised interest rates on Friday to staunch growing inflationary pressures and urged the government to consider ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday will announce requirements for the government to buy more made-in-America goods at a White House event where Germany's Siemens AG will commit ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone retail sales grew by less than expected in January, Eurostat data showed on Friday, pulled down by weaker sales of fuel and muted spending on food and online, as inflati...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers have proposed investing in Russian government securities from the country's National Wealth Fund (NWF) even if the fund's liquid part drops below 7% of gross domes...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's construction sector grew at its fastest pace since mid-2021 in February as disruption from the Omicron coronavirus wave eased and input costs rose at the slowest pace in n...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China summoned some key rare earths companies amid continuously-rising product prices and urged them to ensure a steady supply chain to help cool prices, the regulator said on Frid...

The war in Ukraine, and its fallout, remains central for markets. How much more pain is about to hit Russia's economy? Can oil rise even higher? U.S. inflation data is due on Thursday, the same day th...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Indika Prasanna Kumara ventures out every afternoon to try to find 200 litres of diesel for the Broadway Kids apparel factory in Sri Lanka so it can run its ge...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co has not decided when to resume operations at its assembly plant in Russia's St Petersburg, it said on Friday, citing ongoing issues with components del...

(Reuters) - European stocks sank on Friday, on course for their third consecutive week of declines following reports of a nuclear power plant on fire amid fierce fighting between Ukraine and Russian t...