Economics

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has set up a cross-agency team, led by the country's securities watchdog, to coordinate crackdown efforts against illegal activities in capital markets.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will retain its tariffs on U.S. biodiesel for a further five years after concluding that removing them would likely lead to a surge of imports at artificially

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's over 11 million federal government employees and pensioners will receive an annual wage increase worth $1.3 billion as relief for a rise in prices before the festival

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's economy likely shrank in the fourth quarter as manufacturing remained constrained by supply bottlenecks and consumption dropped on renewed coronavirus fears, the

More than half of U.S. Democrats believe that President Joe Biden’s policies caused the nation’s record-high inflation.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's parliament on Monday approved the first extra budget of the 2021 fiscal year, with a record spending of $317 billion, to help the economy withstand the fallout of COVID-19,

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The euro zone's current account surplus rose to 310 billion euros ($352.47 billion) last year, or 2.6% of the bloc's economic output, European Central Bank data showed on Friday.

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is set to keep monetary policy settings steady on Thursday and project inflation to stay below its 2% target for at least two more years,

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and Italy have agreed to pursue a new trade partnership, the British trade department said on Wednesday following talks on the sidelines of a G20 ministerial meeting in

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Finance Minister Liu Kun said on Tuesday that China will implement bigger cuts in taxes and fees this year while strengthening coordination between fiscal and monetary