BEIJING (Reuters) - The jobless rate for 16- to 24-year olds in China, excluding students, rose to 17.1% in July from 13.2% in the prior month, the country's statistics bureau said on Friday, as emplo ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The political turmoil unleashed by the dismissal of Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is likely to deal another blow to the already struggling economy, where millions of people ...

"I'm open to something happening in terms of us moving before the fourth quarter," Bostic told the newspaper.Bostic's comments are a step ahead of his comments earlier this week where he said he wants ...

The People's Bank of China's (PBOC) delivered a series of interest rate reductions last month and the sequence of the cuts showed its framework had changed, market watchers said, shifting the short-te ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris's economic agenda will focus on lowering the cost of groceries, housing and healthcare, bolstering the child tax credit and drawin ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday he would step down next month, succumbing to public disaffection over political scandals and rising living costs that marred his ...

The central bank's decision follows six successive monetary policy meetings at which the policy rate was raised.So far this year it implemented a 100-basis-point (bps) hike in May and a 150 bps increa ...

The southern African country's repo rate had been at 7.75% since June 2023.Namibia's inflation was at 4.6% in July in annual terms, the same level as in June but down from 4.9% in May. ...

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina quit and fled to neighbouring India last week after student-led protests against her spiralled into some of the worst violence in the country since its 1971 independence f ...