Saudi Arabia targets 150m visitors by 2030 with Ronaldo campaign

The kingdom has committed $800 billion to tourism under Vision 2030, aiming to boost GDP, jobs and infrastructure.
3 September 2025

India in talks with US for trade agreement, says Indian trade minister

India's trade minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday
2 September 2025

Gold price hits record above $3,500

The precious metal reached $3,501.59 an ounce during early trading in Asia
2 September 2025

ECB's Lagarde warns of risk to world economy via Trump interference on Fed

Trump has repeatedly attacked the Fed's chair, Jerome Powell, for not cutting the short-term interest rate
1 September 2025

India boosts oil purchases from US to narrow trade deficit

Indian refiners boosted US crude oil purchases this month, drawn by competitive prices, trade sources said, a move that could help narrow the country’s trade deficit with the United States amid tensions between the two nations.
31 August 2025

China manufacturing shrinks for 5th month

China’s factory output ticked up in August but still recorded a fifth straight month of contraction, official data showed Sunday, as Beijing and Washington press on with trade talks.
31 August 2025

Trump demand for Japan to buy more US rice snagged trade talks, Nikkei says

One official criticised the proposal as an "interference in domestic affairs," the business daily said
31 August 2025

US appeals court finds Trump’s global tariffs illegal

A US appeals court on Friday ruled that many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have upended global trade, were illegal -- but allowed them to remain in place for now, giving him time to take the fight to the Supreme Court.
30 August 2025

India growth beats forecasts, but tariff concerns cloud outlook

The quarterly performance was also helped by decent manufacturing sector growth and improved consumer sentiment
30 August 2025

India will not 'bow down', trade minister says after US tariffs

The latest tariffs salvo from Trump has strained US-India ties, with New Delhi earlier criticising the levies as "unfair, unjustified and unreasonable".
30 August 2025

India extends exemption of cotton import duty till Dec

India has extended the exemption of import duty on cotton until December 31 this year to ease supply pressure on its textile export sector, which has been facing steep tariffs in the United States.
28 August 2025

Foreign debt repayment surges 16% in July

Bangladesh’s external debt servicing surged 16 percent year-on-year in the first month of the current fiscal year (FY) 2025-26, while inflows from bilateral and multilateral lenders fell sharply.
28 August 2025

Indian exporters eye Bangladesh as tariff workaround for US market

Indian textile sector mulls shifting final manufacturing to Bangladesh to avoid US tariff
28 August 2025

Asia's pledge to boost US farm imports may redraw trade flows

Southeast Asian nations look to US to fill rising food demand
28 August 2025

India’s Russian oil gains wiped out by US tariffs

India saved billions of dollars by stepping up imports of discounted Russian oil in the wake of the war in Ukraine, but punitive tariffs imposed by the US that came into effect on Wednesday will quickly undo the gains, with no easy solutions in sight.
27 August 2025

Anti-dumping duty on Chinese plastics if proof found: secretary

LDC graduation a turning point for local plastics industry
27 August 2025

Steep US tariffs set to hit Indian exports from Wednesday

Exceptions are shipments in transit, humanitarian aid, and items under reciprocal trade programmes
26 August 2025

Indonesia says US agrees tariff exemption for its palm oil, cocoa, rubber

The exemption will take effect once both sides reach a final pact
26 August 2025

Trump moves to fire a Fed governor over mortgage fraud claims

Trump cites mortgage fraud allegations in move to oust Federal Reserve's Cook
26 August 2025

South Korea eyes non-binding deal to steer $350 bln US investments

Seoul, Washington draft pact to steer $350b pledged under July trade deal
26 August 2025