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By Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) - When Stephanie Cheung bought a small, two-bedroom apartment for HK$7.7 million ($981,041) as an investment in April 2021, she booked a 6% gain by the summer as Hong ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Japanese yen rose sharply against the dollar on Thursday after Japanese authorities intervened in the forex market for the first time since 1998 to shore up the battered yen. Th...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government has intervened in the foreign exchange market to sell dollars for yen to stem the Japanese currency's recent sharp falls, top currency diplomat Masato Kanda s...

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Thursday formally lifted a moratorium on fracking for shale gas that has been in place since 2019, saying strengthening the country's energy supply was an "absolute priori...

By Neil Jerome Morales and Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine central bank hiked its benchmark interest rates by half a percentage point on Thursday, and said it was ready to take furt...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points on Thursday, as expected by most economists, and said it plans to hike again in November. Norges Bank's mon...

By Gavin Jones and Angelo Amante TERNI, Italy (Reuters) - Inflation, looming recession and impossibly high energy bills are among the daunting economic problems awaiting whoever wins Italy's election ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank is going to use SNB bills and repo transactions to absorb liquidity in order to ensure short-term money market rates remain close to the now positive policy ...

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - New York remains far and away the world's most favoured financial centre, with London still second and Singapore overtaking Hong Kong to come in third, latest rankings ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it was planning to produce about 800,000 vehicles worldwide in October, about 100,000 short of the average monthly production plan presented earlie...