(Reuters) – Manufacturers across Europe and Asia changed down a gear last month as falling demand from abroad hurt Chinese output and European factory growth dipped from January’s 2-1/2 year high. But while the surveys across Asia were more downbeat,…
(Reuters) –China overtook the United States as the world’s largest goods trading nation in 2013, the country’s Ministry of Commerce announced on Saturday. The ministry’s statistics, preliminarily confirmed by the WTO Secretariat, showed that China’s annual trade in goods reached 4.16 trillion U.S. dollars in…
(Reuters) — Australian carrier Qantas Airways Ltd plans to cut 15 percent of its workforce, sell older jets and reduce capital spending after reporting a first-half loss amid growing competition in both international and domestic operations. The deep cuts are part of Qantas’…
By Ruairidh Villar, Sophie Knight and Brett Wolf TOKYO/ST LOUIS Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:47pm EST (Reuters) – Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange, abruptly stopped trading on Tuesday and its chief executive said the business was at…
By Ulf Laessing TRIPOLI Sat Feb 22, 2014 8:05pm EST (Reuters) – Investing in Libyan stocks may sound like an absurd idea at a time when the North African country is descending into chaos and armed militias seize oil ports…
LONDON Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:46am EST (Reuters) – HSBC will announce staff bonuses totaling just under 2.4 billion pounds ($4 billion) globally for 2013 and is expected to report a significant rise in pretax profit, Sky News reported on…
(Reuters) – U.S. housing starts recorded their biggest drop in almost three years in January as harsh weather disrupted activity, but the third month of declines in permits hinted at some weakness in the housing market. Wednesday’s data was the…
(Reuters) – King, the company behind the hit mobile phone game “Candy Crush Saga,” is planning a U.S. stock market debut that some analysts think could value it at more than $5 billion and herald a flurry of technology company…
(Reuters) – A New Zealand court on Wednesday ruled that the search warrant used in the arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom on U.S. online piracy charges was legal, dealing a blow to the internet entrepreneur who is fighting extradition…
(Reuters) – Asian share markets were in hesitant mood on Wednesday as investors keep a wary eye on interest rates in China, though the euro left the dollar in its dust after more soft U.S. economic data. The action was…
