British consumers have grown more gloomy over the past month following the new Labour government’s removal of a welfare benefit for pensioners and warning of tax rises at next month’s budget, a new survey from a trade body showed on Thursday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top leaders admitted Thursday that the world’s number two economy was facing new “problems” and vowed to resolve a long-running crisis in the housing sector.

British consumers have grown more gloomy over the past month following the new Labour government's removal of a welfare benefit for pensioners and warning of tax rises at next month's budget, a new survey from a trade body showed on Thursday

H&M scrapped its earnings margin target for 2024 as higher discounting, costs and fierce competition hurt operating profit in the third quarter, sending shares in the world's No.2 listed fashion retailer down as much as 8 percent

China's top leaders, including President Xi Jinping, admitted Thursday that the economy was facing new "problems" and vowed to resolve a long-running housing sector crisis, state media said

German shoppers are heading into October feeling slightly more optimistic, a key survey showed Thursday, even as the outlook for Europe's biggest economy remains gloomy

Chinese leaders are considering pumping more than $140 billion into the country's large state-run banks in the first such move to support the flagging economy

IMF on Wednesday agreed to loan Pakistan $7 billion to bolster its faltering economy, approving a relief package that Islamabad has pledged would be the last from the Washington-based lender

The recent interest rate cuts by the United States Federal Reserve present opportunities and challenges for central banks in Asia and the Pacific

Sri Lanka’s new leftist leader has little room to renegotiate an IMF bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt country but imposed punishing and unpopular austerity measures, analysts say.

From tomorrow, a bhori of 22-carat gold will cost Tk 138,708

A four-member delegation of the IMF will sit with NBR officials tomorrow

China's commerce ministry on Wednesday said it "firmly opposes" US plans to ban the sale of connected vehicles incorporating Chinese and Russian technology, citing national security risks

OPEC said Tuesday that phasing out oil was a "fantasy", as the Saudi-led cartel forecast that demand would keep growing until at least 2050, a key year in the battle against climate change

China's central bank has shifted to a more aggressive easing stance, but its policy weapons don't have the key enemy to economic growth in their line of sight: the persistently weak consumer demand

The US Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa on Tuesday, alleging the company illegally maintains a monopoly over the use of debit cards in the United States

It kept its 2025 forecast unchanged at 4.9 percent.

Jewellers raised 22-carat gold prices by Tk 2,612 per bhori

The world's biggest rice exporter earlier this month removed a floor price of $950 a metric ton for basmati rice, weeks ahead of the arrival of the new season crop.

Sri Lanka's new president won the election decisively, but his toughest task still lies ahead as he seeks to balance promises to aid the nation's poor against the need to keep crucial supplies of cash flowing from the International Monetary Fund