US President Donald Trump during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. Will Oliver | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump submitted a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy to Congress on Monday, starting a mandatory review period for…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to journalists aboard Air Force One en route to South Korea on October 29, 2025 in Japan. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s move last week to scale back annual military drills with South Korea came as Seoul finalizes hundreds of billions of dollars…
The U.S. dollar was on the defensive early on Wednesday after comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell bolstered wagers on an interest rate cut this month. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images New Delhi’s bid to attract foreign funds through a special scheme has helped power $73 billion in inflows in the last 11 weeks, driven…
General atmosphere at the 2025 Icons of Porsche Festival at The Slab on November 22, 2025 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Maya Cellixa | Getty Images Porsche has signed a five-year contract worth 1.25 billion euros ($1.46 billion) for artificial intelligence with India’s largest IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services. As part of the deal,…
A man holds the Iranian toman equivalent of 1 USD as US dollars selling rate on the free market reaches an all-time high, hitting the 200,000 toman mark in Tehran, Iran on Aug. 24, 2026. Fatemeh Bahrami | Anadolu | Getty Images The U.S. announced an “economic D-Day” campaign Monday to isolate Iran from the…
CHANGZHOU, JIANGSU, CHINA – 2026/05/05: XPENG’s showroom at Jiangnan Global Harbor displays two XPENG electric cars behind glass, with a staff member inside. (Photo by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng fell more than 9% in Hong Kong on Tuesday after the…
A housewife (R) buys vegetables at a wet market in Singapore Roslan Rahman | Afp | Getty Images Singapore inflation missed estimates even as it accelerated to a near two-year high in July, as higher energy prices due to the Iran war lifted electricity prices. The city-state reported that consumer prices last month rose 2.2%,…
Night view of Alibaba’s headquarters building located by the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China on Nov. 16, 2025. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Alibaba shares plunged as much as 10% in Hong Kong on Monday after the Chinese tech giant priced an 80 billion Hong Kong dollar ($10.20 billion) placement of newly issued…
TOPSHOT – A man takes a selfie with the Indian Railways’ hydrogen-powered train after its flagging-off ceremony at Pandu Pindara railway station in Haryana’s Jind city on July 17, 2026. India launched its first hydrogen-powered train July 17, joining a small group of nations testing the technology as part of efforts to decarbonise rail transport…
The logo of Samsung is seen at the Samsung Electronics Seocho building in Seoul on July 30, 2026. South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics posted on July 30, a massive 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, buoyed by sustained AI-driven demand for memory chips. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP via…
