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By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO -Toyota Motor Corp has accepted labour union pay demands, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda told reporters late Thursday, wrapping up annual wage negotiations with unusual speed amid …

BEIJING -China will step up policy support to stabilise the economy, Xinhua news agency quoted the Politburo, a top decision-making body of the ruling Communist Party, as saying on Friday. …

MOSCOW – Russia’s central bank on Friday said it had provided banks with 1.9 trillion roubles ($22.87 billion) out of 3 trillion roubles on offer at a “fine-tuning”, three-day repo …

PARIS -French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday the option of cutting off Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system remained open, but that he viewed this …

TOKYO – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) said on Friday it had decided to reduce the maximum amounts of commercial paper (CP) and corporate bonds it can buy in a …

ATHENS – Piraeus Bank, one of Greece’s four largest lenders, said on Friday its operations in Ukraine comprise a financial institution, JSC Piraeus Bank ICB, and investments in real estate …

– Spanish travel booking group Amadeus posted on Friday a second consecutive profitable quarter since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, helped by stronger demand as travel curbs were partly …

PARIS – European sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine will lead to cost increases, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said, but the bloc will be able to protect …

LONDON – Investors pulled money from bonds and pumped money into cash and stocks in the week to Wednesday as equity positioning showed “zero signs of capitulation despite flows and …

By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI – Stellantis’ Jeep will launch two new sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) in India this year to boost sales in a market where it has struggled to …

LONDON – British Airways owner IAG is now avoiding Russian airspace for overflights and cancelled its flight to Moscow on Friday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson banned Russia’s flagship airline …

PARIS – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday that the European Union wanted to isolate Russia financially, as he spoke alongside his German counterpart Christian Lindner at …

– Goldman Sachs on Friday cut its target for Europe’s major stock index, saying equities in the region are likely to face risks for some time as the Russia-Ukraine crisis …

A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. World markets may have recovered some of their worst losses after Russia’s attack on Ukraine but a sombre mood …

By Leika Kihara TOKYO -The Bank of Japan said on Friday it would scrutinise factors behind the country’s low inflation and the divergence of price trends from other parts of …

By John Revill ZURICH -Holcim is confident it can handle energy price spikes caused by the Ukraine crisis, CEO Jan Jenisch said on Friday, after the world’s biggest cement-maker reported …

MOSCOW – The Russian central bank on Friday said it was raising the limit at a “fine-tuning” repo auction later on Friday to 3 trillion roubles ($35.55 billion) from 2 …

By Sujata Rao and Marc Jones LONDON – Russia has spent the past seven years building up formidable financial defences, yet in the long run, its economy is unlikely to …

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO – In late November 2019, after winning Sri Lanka’s presidential election and months ahead of a parliamentary ballot that would again test his …

HELSINKI – Finnish premium department store chain Stockmann on Friday posted a rise in fourth-quarter earnings and said it expected the positive development to continue as long as no major …

KYIV -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that continued Russian aggression against his country showed that sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West were not enough. Zelenskiy said the …