Economic news

Uber Technologies Inc (UBER. N) adjusted its target with an aim of achieving its profitability by the end of the year, but the ride hailing firm anticipates a major decline estimating up to $1 billion or more this 2020. Uber shares advanced greatly up to 5% in after-hours session. Such activity followed after Chief Executive […]

Dollar stands strong with support from domestic data and virus optimism The U.S. Dollar stood strong on Thursday after gaining support from firm domestic data and an optimistic viewpoint that the coronavirus’ impact on the economy would slow down. Amid reports of the virus infecting more than 28,018 people and raising the death toll to […]

Post-Brexit UK keeps hopes up for early free trade with Australia British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab told reporters on Thursday that the UK has been eyeing a free trade deal with Australia and hopes that it would be one of their first trade agreements to secure since Britain has exited the bloc. After Britain had […]

The 2019 coronavirus outbreak has interrupted economic activities and production on a global scale after infecting thousands of people in China. A continued interruption of supply chains even might cost a lot of problems to the economy of Canada and the rest of the world, according to an official of A Canadian bank on Wednesday. […]

Six major central banks are planning to conduct a joint research on digital currencies or cryptocurrencies and representatives are considering holding the first meeting in Washington in April, according to a report by Nikkei. The central banks of Switzerland, Canada, Britain, Japan, Sweden, and the Euro zone have announced their plan to join their findings […]

Vietnam-China trade dropped in January due to the coronavirus spread amid the Lunar New Year holiday, disrupting supply chain and transport. China is Vietnam’s largest partner in trading in manufacturing of materials and equipment for labor. Bilateral trade fell in January for 25.8% from December’s figures. In the previous year, bilateral trade declined 11.8%, the […]

Asian stocks advanced on Thursday, just a day after US S&P 500 reached all time-high from strong US figures, while markets remained cautious on persisting effect of coronavirus contagion. Japanese Nikkei clocked in 1.63% while MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares acquired 0.39%. S&P 500 .SPX inched up 1.13% last Wednesday, ending its session to […]

Oil futures advanced on Thursday continuing its positive performance the previous day. Such activity was brought by upbeat investor sentiment over the possible advances against the virus contagion in China, expecting that this will boost fuel demand in the world’s largest oil importer. Brent futures advanced by 98 cents, equivalent to 1.8%, to $56.26 per […]

The central bank of Australia is considering to lessen monetary policy and cut interest rates if unemployment rate increased and inflation stalled. Unemployment rate decreased to 5.1% in December while inflation rose in the final quarter of 2019, showing that lowering rates was not urgent. The Reserve Bank of Australia cut its cash rate thrice […]

Oil prices gained over 1% on Wednesday, underpinned by news of potential extended production cuts by OPEC+ to counter weak global oil demand caused by coronavirus outbreak. Brent crude oil futures LCOcl gained 1.4%, or 74 cents, at $54.70 per barrel by 0326 GMT. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose 1.2%, or 61 cents, at […]