Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo on Friday opened its first store in India, one of its largest worldwide, becoming the latest global retailer to plunge into the huge but tough developing market.

Federal Reserve policymakers on Friday signaled they are on high alert for signs that uncertainty over trade policy and slowing global growth are beginning to hold back the broader US economy, but so far they have flagged little in the data that is pointing one way or the other.

Hong Kong’s wealthiest man will donate more than US$100 million to local businesses, his foundation said Friday, as Asia’s once-calm financial hub was roiled by fresh protests.

With the highest tower in the world, grand commercial centres and artificial islands, Dubai projects an image of prosperity, even as the city-state races to court investors to bolster a flagging economy.

INDIA’S central bank on Friday cut interest rates for the fifth time this year, putting them at a near-decade low, while it also slashed its growth forecasts as authorities struggle to kickstart Asia’s third-largest economy.

US airlines are scrambling to digest a new 10 percent tariff on European-made Airbus planes that threaten additional havoc in a market already reeling from frozen deliveries of Boeing Co’s 737 MAX.

DESPITE the flurry of trade and political uncertainties hanging over the US economy, the National Retail Federation on Thursday said it expects Americans to continue to spend and load up on gifts in a strong holiday shopping season.

The Chinese yuan will slip by year-end to deeper lows last hit against the US dollar during the 2008 global financial crisis as the authorities nudge the partly managed currency down while the US-China trade war rumbles on, a Reuters poll showed.

US regulators said on Friday they were reviewing whether Tesla Inc should have recalled 2,000 of its electric cars in May instead of issuing a software upgrade to fix a potential defect that could have resulted in battery fires.

US lawmakers have requested information from Apple critic Spotify as part of an antitrust probe, according to two sources briefed on the investigation into allegations the iPhone maker engages in anti-competitive behavior to support its own apps.

The coffee machines have been cold, computer screens blank and work stations empty for two months in Kashmir’s Silicon Valley as an Indian communications blockade on the troubled region takes a growing toll on business.

Total foreign debt held by developing nations jumped more than five percent to $7.8 trillion, driven by a surge in Chinese debt, the World Bank said in a report on Wednesday.

Gold prices edged up on Wednesday, after rising as much as 1 percent in the previous session, as disappointing US manufacturing data fanned fears of a sharp global economic slowdown and stoked bets of further interest rate cuts.

Alphabet Inc’s Google is rolling out new privacy features to its Maps, YouTube and Voice Assistant services, with options including incognito mode and automatic data deletion, the company said on Wednesday.

The United Auto Workers union said on Tuesday it rejected a new comprehensive offer from General Motors Co to end a two-week-old strike, saying the automaker came up short on several fronts including wages, healthcare and temporary workers.

American firms continued to hire in September but at a slower pace as businesses have become more cautious, according to private payrolls firm ADP on Wednesday.

The Bank of Japan will stick to its playbook of minor tweaks and verbal warnings to rein in sharp falls in long-term interest rates, sources say, raising questions about its ability to control the yield curve while managing market expectations.

A downturn in British construction deepened last month, according to a survey on Wednesday that showed the commercial and civil engineering sectors contracting at the fastest in around 10 years ahead of Brexit.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has ended mobile telephone production in China, it said on Wednesday, hurt by intensifying competition from domestic rivals in the world’s biggest smartphone market.

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s newly launched Mate 30 devices have lost their access to manually install Google’s Android apps, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.