India's economy grew 7.8 per cent in October-December from the same period a year earlier, after posting 8.4 per cent growth in the previous quarter, the government said on Friday, as it unveiled a revised series of national output...
R&I raises long-term foreign currency rating to BB with stable outlook. Japan-based Rating and Investment Information upgraded Türkiye’s sovereign credit rating by one notch Friday, marking its first increase for the country in eight years. R&I raised Türkiye’s long-term foreign currency...
After replacing workers, new wave of autonomous AI tools start replacing entire software products, as traditional software-as-a-service sector sees its worst period since 2008 financial crisis. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence tools are roiling global markets and raising concerns about...
Assets invested in the ETFs industry globally reached a new record of US$20.64 trillion at the end of January, breaking the prior record of $19.85 trillion set at the end of December 2025. During January, the ETFs industry globally gathered...
Real GDP rose 1.7% in 2025 overall, down from 2% in 2024. Statistics Canada reported a fourth-quarter contraction in real gross domestic product Friday that economists argue conceals some promising details in underlying economic data. The agency said that real gross...
Trade flows from North and East Asia to the Asean and South Asia regions rose by 44% between 2019 and 2024. A report from Citi noted that trade corridors in Asia are experiencing “significant growth” in recent times, with Asean...
Equities deliver 19.3% return, while renewable infrastructure also post double-digit gain, with nearly 40% allocation to US stocks paying as AI optimism, rate cuts boost markets. Norway's sovereign wealth fund — the world’s largest — posted an annual profit of...
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) logged a net profit of $5.87b (S$7.42b) for 2025, a 2% year-on-year (YoY) dip from the record S$7.59b in 2024, its latest financial results showed. Profit before tax rose 2% YoY to a new high of...
Full-year profit will come lower as Norinchukin foresees a potential portfolio rebalance. Norinchukin Bank saw its profits improve to $636.78m (JPY99.2b) in April-December 2025, reversing the $9.05b (JPY1.41t) loss for the same nine-month period in 2024. The Japanese bank expects its...
National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) has reported a 12% increase in its net profit attributable to shareholders reaching BD18.2 million ($48.3 million) for the fourth quarter ended 31 December 2025, compared to BD16.2 million in the same period of...
