US dockers launched strike action on Tuesday in 36 ports on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico. Around half of North America's maritime trade passes through those ports

The European Parliament is expected to vote Friday on whether to impose hefty tariffs on imported EVs from China -- part of a bid to protect its automotive industry from low-cost, subsidised competition

The world's largest memory chipmaker is modifying staffing levels in Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, a company spokesman told AFP, adding that "the adjustments include job cuts"

Benchmark oil contract, Brent North Sea crude, has rallied about five dollars this week after Iran's missile attack on Israel -- but remaining around $75 per barrel

The eurozone’s annual inflation rate fell to its lowest level in three-and-a-half years in September, official data showed Tuesday, dropping below the European Central Bank’s two-percent target and fuelling expectations of a rate cut.

Oil prices extended a rally Wednesday after Iran’s missile attack on Israel fanned fears of a Middle East-wide conflict, while the Hong Kong market ploughed on with its China-fuelled surge as developers saw eye-watering gains.

US manufacturing activity contracted for a sixth straight month in September, according to survey data released Tuesday, with demand remaining weak and new export orders slumping.

The consumer price index stood at 9.92%, down from previous month's 10.49%

The first consignment will cost Tk 640.15 crore and the second one Tk 649.59 crore

Google owner Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram and Facebook, are forecast to spend a combined $160 billion in capital expenditures next year,

The complaint accuses Apple of "interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of" their rights under federal labor law

US and European stocks turned sharply lower after the strikes, which Iran launched in response to the killings of Tehran-backed militant leaders

"Tariffs are very blunt instruments," Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told CNBC in an interview.

Both main crude contracts jumped more than five percent at one point Tuesday after Iran fired dozens of missiles at Israel in response to the killings of Tehran-backed militant leaders

Global factory activity weakened in September as soft demand and economic uncertainty pointed to a tough outlook, surveys showed, keeping policymakers under pressure to shore up fragile growth.

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka’s economy recorded falling consumer prices for the first time in 29 years, official data showed Monday, with the September inflation figure dipping to negative 0.5 percent.

Global rice prices fell on Monday after India, the world’s No.1 exporter of the grain, gave the go-ahead for exports to resume, boosting global supply and helping poor Asian and African buyers secure more affordable supplies, exporters said.

Restructuring the debt is a cornerstone of the International Monetary Fund rescue plan Sri Lanka agreed to last year after an unprecedented economic crisis

The Bank of Japan's Tankan survey reports the difference between the percentage of firms who see current business conditions as favourable, and those that do not

The rate-cut lowers the cost of borrowing for consumers and businesses, bringing some relief to households weeks before November's presidential election -- even as the Fed works independently of the US administration