Cityscape and Tokyo Tower at sunset, Tokyo, Japan. © Marco Bottigelli | Moment | Getty Images Shares of Asian pharmaceutical companies fell Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced fresh tariffs on furniture, heavy trucks and pharmaceutical products. Starting from Oct. 1, “any branded or patented Pharmaceutical Product” faces 100% duties, except for companies that…
In an aerial view, trucks line up to enter a shipping berth at the Port of Oakland on Aug. 26, 2025 in Oakland, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday night stateside that he would impose a 25% tariff on imported heavy trucks from Oct. 1, part of his broader…
A Fanuc robotic arm moves bins of products during a media tour of the Amazon.com Inc. DAB2 fulfillment center in Daytona Beach, Florida, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. The DAB2 fulfillment center is Amazon’s seventh robotics fulfillment center in Florida. Photographer: Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images…
People watch the first sunrise of the new year from a footbridge overlooking the city skyline in Seoul on January 1, 2024. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Thursday, after investors continued selling tech names on Wall Street like Nvidia and Oracle for a second straight day. Nvidia slid almost…
BEIJING, CHINA – OCTOBER 12: The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) building is pictured on October 12, 2020 in Beijing, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China kept its benchmark lending rates unchanged for the fourth month in a row on Monday despite the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut last week….
Newly manufactured cars awaiting export at a port in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan, on March 27, 2025. Issei Kato | Reuters Japan’s exports contracted less than expected in August as shipments to its largest trading region — Asia — rebounded, though the overall growth stayed negative for a fourth straight month. Japanese shipments fell…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event to sign a memorandum to send federal resources to Memphis, Tennessee, for a surge against local crime, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 15, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he would file a…
Shanghai Bund skyline panorama Yangna | E+ | Getty Images China’s economic slowdown deepened in August with a raft of key indicators missing expectations, as weak domestic demand persisted and Beijing’s campaign against industrial overcapacity curbed output. Retail sales last month rose 3.4% from a year earlier, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed…
Shanghai urban skyline and the bund, China. Comezora | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were set to open lower as investors kept an eye on the talks between the U.S. and China in Spain, and await a slate of data from Beijing. U.S. and Chinese officials began talks in Madrid Sunday to discuss key…
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press at the Federal Senate in Brasilia on July 17, 2025. Mateus Bonomi | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the U.S. will “respond accordingly” to what he called a “witch hunt” against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, without…
