Canada housing starts rise 8% in February
OTTAWA – Canadian housing starts rose 8% in February compared with the previous month on gains in both multiple urban starts and single detached urban starts, data from the national…
OTTAWA – Canadian housing starts rose 8% in February compared with the previous month on gains in both multiple urban starts and single detached urban starts, data from the national…
BOSTON – The founders of a local nonprofit, Violence in Boston (VIB), have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a series of alleged schemes designed to…
– Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that natural gas exports outside former Soviet Union countries fell by 28.5% year on year to 30.7 billion cubic metres (bcm) in…
LONDON -Russia and Belarus represent less than 1% of business transacted by Lloyd’s of London, the commercial insurance market said, adding that it would look to curtail Russian exposure in…
By Bharat Gautam – Gold extended its slide on Tuesday as ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine reduced demand for safe-haven assets, while bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve may…
By John McCrank NEW YORK – Members Exchange (MEMX), the fastest growing U.S. stock exchange, said on Tuesday it plans to launch an options exchange in the fourth quarter, pending…
BRUSSELS – Nine other countries have joined the G7 nations in stripping Moscow of its privileged trade treatment following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis said on…
BEIJING -Tesla Inc raised its prices in China and the United States for the second time in less than a week, after CEO Elon Musk said the U.S. electric carmaker…
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO -Opposition leaders led a march of hundreds of protesters through Sri Lanka’s main city of Colombo on Tuesday as anger grows over a worsening economic crisis…
NEW DELHI – Representatives of SoftBank Group Corp will step down from the boards of Indian digital payments firm Paytm and the parent of online insurance aggregator Policybazaar, a person…
LONDON – Chinese companies listed in New York fell sharply during premarket trade on Tuesday after surging COVID-19 cases fuelled fears for the world’s second-largest economy and sent mainland firms…
By Iain Withers LONDON -Lloyds Banking Group CEO Charlie Nunn has begun a shake-up of the lender’s top team and internal structure as he looks to implement a strategy unveiled…
By Medha Singh – Bitcoin loves flirting with the mainstream. But now, as the U.S. president says he wants to get serious, it may be getting cold crypto feet. When…
By Bharat Gautam – Gold extended its slide on Tuesday as ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine reduced demand for safe-haven assets, while bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve may…
By Miranda Murray and Paul Carrel BERLIN -German investor sentiment suffered a record slide in March due to the war in Ukraine and economic sanctions on Russia, a survey showed…
– Russia’s central bank provided banks with all 3 trillion roubles ($26.73 billion) at a one-week repo auction on Tuesday, facing demand of 4.84 trillion roubles, as lending institutions scramble…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO -Japan will closely watch exchange-rate moves as market stability was “very important,” Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday in the wake of…
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK – Global investors are scooping up stakes in cryptocurrency funds and companies, as they seek exposure to a sector many believe could withstand the fallout…
By Christoph Steitz FRANKFURT – U.S. carmaker Ford on Monday unveiled plans for seven new electric models in Europe, a battery-assembly site in Germany and a nickel cell manufacturing joint…
BRUSSELS – Euro zone industrial production was unchanged in January from December, data showed on Tuesday, indicating a sluggish start to 2022 even before any impact from Russia’s invasion of…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON – New economic projections from the Federal Reserve this week will show how far and how fast policymakers see interest rates rising this year, in a…
By Yadarisa Shabong -Imperial Brands has started talks to transfer its Russian business to a local third party, the tobacco company said on Tuesday, joining British rival BAT in exiting…
DUBAI – The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been given a crypto-asset service provider licence by Bahrain’s central bank, its first such licence in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC),…
– Luxury carmaker Bentley unveiled plans on Tuesday to build a new electric model annually for five years from 2025 after its annual profit skyrocketed, as the British firm builds…
BERLIN – Volkswagen is shifting production to China and the United states as a result of the war in Ukraine and will prioritise China this year, its Chief Executive Herbert…