(RTTNews) - The Japanese stock market slipped into negative territory on Friday despite opening higher following the positive cues overnight from Wall Street as the Federal Reserve unveiled a $2.3 trillion program to support the U.S. economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. Worrie
China's factory gate prices fell 1.5% March year-on-year, data showed on Friday, marking the sharpest decline in five months and suggesting the economy remains some way off from mounting a durable recovery from the coronavirus shock that shut down the country.
Citigroup (NYSE: C) is bolstering its ranks by offering full-time positions to many of its current interns, a spokesman for the big banking conglomerate said on Thursday. The current crop of interns will be offered such work once they graduate. Those currently enrolled in the c
(RTTNews) - The China stock market has alternated between positive and negative finishes through the last 10 trading days since the end of the two-day winning streak in which it had risen more than 120 points or 4.5 percent. The Shanghai Composite Index now rests just above the
The dollar started Friday's trade on a shaky footing and was on course for a weekly loss as the U.S. Federal Reserve's massive new lending programme for small companies and signs of a slowdown in coronavirus infections reduced safe-haven demand.
China on Friday reported a fall in new coronavirus cases, particularly imported and asymptomatic infections which authorities fear could see a second wave of COVID-19 as city and travel restrictions are lifted.
Japan's wholesale prices marked the first annual decline in five months in March, suggesting that slumping global demand for oil and raw material due to the coronavirus pandemic will weigh on inflation in coming months.
As coronavirus cases surge in Indonesia, doctors are working double-time treating patients both at hospitals and online through healthtech startups - an approach that is quickly becoming part of the national healthcare system.
China has accused Taiwan of "venomously" attacking the World Health Organization (WHO) and conniving with internet users to spread racist comments, after the agency's chief said racist slurs against him had come from the island.
(RTTNews) - The Taiwan stock market on Thursday snapped the three-day winning streak in which it had advanced more than 470 points or 5 percent. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now rests just beneath the 10,120-point plateau although it figures to bounce higher again on Friday.
KUSHCO HOLDINGS, INC. (KSHB) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.16 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.11. This compares to loss of $0.10 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.
Three U.S. local governments plan to sign deals this week to become the first to adopt a location tracking app aimed at preventing new outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-led project said Thursday.
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Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said in a letter to the workers union on Thursday that it will idle six oil and gas platforms in five fields of the Campos basin due to the coronavirus epidemic.
Peru's central bank cut the benchmark interest rate to a historic low 0.25% on Thursday, the latest move by the copper-rich country to shore up its economy in the coronavirus pandemic that is hammering global markets and growth.
In the usually bustling streets of the downtown Santiago this week, Chilean great-grandmother Luz Maria Rios was ignoring a coronavirus quarantine and risking her health to sell Easter eggs.