The loan disbursal is the latest tranche of funding the International Monetary Fund has released to Ukraine as part of an ongoing 4-year, $15.5 billion program approved last March.

Japan’s exports fell for the first time in 10 months in September, data showed on Thursday, a worry for policymakers as any prolonged weakness in global demand may complicate the central bank’s path to exit years of ultra-easy monetary policy.

Gold hit an all-time high on Thursday, steered by uncertainty surrounding the US election and expectations of more interest rate cuts by major central banks, while spotlight shifted to a slew of US data.

An Oxfam audit found that as much as $41 billion in climate finance could not be found "between the time projects were approved and when they closed."

After cutting rates twice already this year, including at their last meeting in September, policymakers initially signalled a preference to wait until December to cut again

Housing minister Ni Hong said Beijing will "increase the credit scale of white-list projects to four trillion" yuan ($562 billion) by the end of the year

The company will annually produce 70 million pieces of pullers of zippers

Closing the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math would accelerate the green transition while making it more inclusive

Demand for oil, gas and coal is still projected to peak by the end of the decade, possibly creating a surplus of fossil fuels, the IEA said in its annual World Energy Outlook

The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) reached 1.7 percent last month, well below the BoE's two-percent target, after hitting 2.2 percent in August, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement

Officials have in recent weeks unveiled a string of measures to reignite the world's number-two economy and bring an end to years of depressed business activity with an eye to achieving five percent annual growth

Key among the reforms was the announcement that the IBRD's minimum equity-to-loans ratio will fall to 18 percent from 19 percent, which will generate $30 billion in additional financing

"You make it so high, so horrible, so obnoxious" companies will "come right away," Trump said.

Global public debt is expected to reach a record $100 trillion this year, the IMF said Tuesday, warning that the fiscal outlook for many countries may be even “worse than expected.”

Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose by an annual 30.5 percent in September, as China surpassed its record numbers recorded in August and Europe resumed growth, market research firm Rho Motion said on Tuesday.

The Nobel committee has put the spotlight back on global inequalities. Bestowing its prestigious economics prize on Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson,  is a reminder that income disparities among and within nations are just as important as climate change, the AI “revolution” and ageing societies.

A delegation of the US-based LNG company calls on chief adviser

With AI-supported innovations such as searches on ChatGPT now requiring at least four to five times more processing capacity compared with traditional internet searches, data centre demand is expected to grow at around 20 per cent a year for the next five to seven years, analysts at Maybank noted in an October report

Citi’s analysis, a portion of which was seen by Reuters and has not been previously reported, shows the bank has been grappling with a shortage of skilled personnel, finding at times that it did not have the right training and assessment tools to fix its regulatory challenges.

The US central bank kicked off its rate-cutting cycle last month with a large cut of half a percentage-point, noting the progress made in bringing inflation down toward its long-run target of two percent