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BANK lending in Singapore inched 0.6 per cent higher in August from a month ago, as continued contraction in consumer loans was offset by a rise in business loans, preliminary data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore showed on Monday. 

BEIJING: China's factory activity shrank for the fifth straight month in September, and though the downturn eased off slightly the underlying trend pointed to persistent pressure on the economy as it navigates a bruising trade war with the United States. Persistent weakness in the manufacturing ...

General Motors Co and the United Auto Workers (UAW) will continue talks on a new labor deal on Monday after they were unable to agree on a contract over the weekend, the union said.

Shares in AB InBev's Asia-Pacific unit Budweiser Brewing Company APAC Ltd were set to open up 1.5 per cent on their market debut in Hong Kong on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Palm oil from an illegal plantation inside an Indonesian rainforest home to endangered orangutans has found its way into the supply chains of major consumer brands including Unilever and Nestle, according to a US-based environmental group. A Rainforest Action Network (RAN) ...

Transatlantic trade ties face renewed disruption this week when global arbiters are expected to grant the United States a record award allowing it to hit European imports with billions of dollars of tariffs in a long-running aircraft subsidy dispute.

Asian shares and the Chinese yuan were off to a cautious start on Monday as investors looked to how Chinese financial markets will react to the news the U.S. administration is considering delisting Chinese companies from U.S. stock exchanges.

BOCA CHICA, Texas: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled the latest iteration of his space company's newly assembled Starship, outlining a speedy development timeline for the centrepiece vehicle of SpaceX’s quest to launch humans to the moon and Mars. Musk showed a crowd of space ...

NEW YORK: David Burt helped two of the protagonists of Michael Lewis' book The Big Short bet against the US mortgage market in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Now he's betting against the market again, but this time, the risk is not from underwater subprime mortgages, it's from...

The movement should be taking aim at vested economic interests that have entrenched inequality but do not, says the City University of Hong Kong’s Tony Carroll.