Bad debt was on a rising trend and Vietnam's bond and stock markets are facing difficulties, as is the property sector, despite signs of recovery, deputy central bank governor Dao Minh Tu told a regul ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Major central banks in December delivered their biggest policy easing push since the spring 2020 COVID rate-cutting frenzy, with the latest moves making the annual 2024 easing effor ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Large Japanese firms are likely to increase wages by about 5% on average in 2025, the same as last year, the chair of a major business lobby said on Tuesday while pledging efforts to ...

The ECB has been steadily cutting interest rates after bringing down price growth to just above its 2% target but some of the latest indicators, including German inflation data on Monday, suggest the ...

ATHENS/PARIS (Reuters) - For Athens restaurant owner Christos Kapetanakis, rent has always been high, but now he faces what he calls "a second rent" as soaring electricity bills slash profits and forc ...

The Sentix index for the euro zone dropped to -17.7 in January from -17.5 in December. That is the lowest level since November 2023, though it was not as bad as the -18.0 forecast by analysts polled b ...

Unemployment is at a record low 6.3% as firms continue to hire, a puzzle to some since the bloc's economy has been stagnating for the past year and historical precedent would suggest growing labour ma ...

Musk, a close ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, last month endorsed a German anti-immigration party ahead of a parliamentary election in February, and has repeatedly commented on British poli ...

These come against a backdrop of unease over the U.S. interest rate outlook and potential for policy surprises under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, with the euro and Chinese yuan already kicking o ...