Alibaba laid out the Chinese e-commerce giant’s new plan to bring one million small U.S. businesses onto its platform to sell to Chinese consumers over the next five years as

Pakistan shares still managed to be the region’s 2016 star outperformer as Donald Trump’s surprise U.S. election win put the kibosh on a late year market rally in Asia. The

According to one economist, it’s likely that the Federal Reserve will be “constrained” when it comes to raising rates even though the central bank surprised markets this month by forecasting

Six potential major surprises which, while outside its baseline scenarios, could shake things up, including a more retail spending and workers taking time off, have been pointed out by Nomura

While some market watchers may say the rally has gone too far, too fast since the election of Donald Trump, it is a fact that stocks have soared to all-time

Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Italy’s third-largest lender, in June, reportedly refused to listen to suggestions from former Italian Industry Minister Corrado Passera in relation to potential ways for the

As the web-based digital currency jumped 5 percent on the day to its highest levels in three years after more than doubling in price this year, the total value of

Deutsche Bank has still got mountains to climb, a senior director at Blackrock Investment Institute was quoted in the media saying, even while Germany’s biggest bank has made great strides

While regional stocks were mixed after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s upbeat comments, shedding some gains made following killings in Germany and Turkey the yen edged down on Tuesday after

Rum would be used by Cuba to pay off its Soviet-era debt. Using rum and pharmaceuticals instead of money, a debt of $270 million is planned to be paid to

With the aim of avoiding the “national disaster” of a “hard Brexit”, Scotland will publish proposals very soon for how it can remain in the European single market after Britain

While launches during the third quarter slumped to lows not seen since the first quarter of 2009, according to data from Hedge Fund Research (HFR), hedge fund liquidations in 2016

Investment bank Goldman Sachs wrote in a note on Friday that an extension of this year’s price rally in base metals and bulk commodities in China into next year will

It would not be until the second half of next year that it won’t result in demand exceeding supply, while speeding up the re-balancing of the global oil market, OPEC

Adrian Mowat, JPMorgan’s chief Asian and emerging market strategist is of the opinion that investors should look to counter-intuitive investments in China and Russia to play on the possibility of

Riding on optimism that non-OPEC producers would agree to cut output following a cartel agreement to limit production, Oil prices extended gains for a second session running on Friday. Seeking

In a move that is likely to enrage eurosceptics who want to break away from the bloc’s legal system as soon as possible, large banks in Britain want the UK

Digital Asset Holdings has developed a platform to allow traders to use blockchain technology without giving out confidential information on their trades, announced the blockchain startup that is backed by

Just days ahead of the all-important December meeting of the European Central Bank at which the bank’s president is set to reveal the future of its bond-buying program, for Mario

While Euro’s bond yields dipped in line with U.S. peers as oil saw its first fall for five days, the region held firm on Tuesday, having seen a wild 3-cent

In the wake of Italy’s outright rejection of proposed constitutional reforms in Sunday night’s referendum, expectations that the European Central Bank (ECB) will announce a six-month extension of its massive,

Data that upholds its ranking as the world’s fastest-growing economy have been revealed by India once again. But as a cash squeeze engineered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government looks

Masking concern about the protectionist leanings of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and an OPEC-induced oil price rally, China’s factories notched their strongest growth in activity in two years and Japanese

According to a report published on Wednesday which warns that risks to global stability have spiked in the past six months, China, euro zone sovereign debt and the potential fallout

A senior economist is of the opinion that another banking crisis in Europe could be sparked off by this Sunday’s referendum in Italy. “In my view the biggest risk is