China’s inflation eased to a 29-month low and Premier Wen Jiabao said the government will intensify its response to the economy’s slowdown as growth wanes in Asian neighbors from Japan to Vietnam. The consumer price index (MXAP) rose 2.2 percent in June

The 50-share Nifty index is expected to open lower on Monday and may even test its crucial psychological level of 5300 in trade, following weak Asian markets. The Indian markets rose for the fifth consecutive week due to continuous buying support from

Overall bank lending in Japan was up 0.8 percent on year in June, the Bank of Japan said on Monday, standing at 395.188 trillion yen. That follows the 0.4 percent increase in May. Including trusts, bank lending added an annual 0.7 percent to 456.976

Markets have opened lower in trades today tracking the weakness in the global markets and lower than expected US jobs data which was announced on Friday post the market hours. The Sensex has opened lower by 105 points at 17,416 and the 50-share Nifty has

Japan's Nikkei share average fell back below the psychologically important 9,000 level on Monday morning as worries about faltering global growth were reinforced by sluggish U.S. jobs figures and disappointing data from China and Japan. The Nikkei fell

Asian stocks fell the most in a month and the yen rose after Japanese machinery orders sank the most in more than five years and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the nation’s economy faces “relatively large” downward pressure. Bond risk climbed. The MSCI

Against the backdrop of a perceptible slowdown in macro-environment, India Inc faces another tough quarter as Sensex companies are expected to post single-digit profit growth in the June quarter of current fiscal. The earnings season would kicks off

Gatehouse Bank has completed the multi-million pound acquisition of the Bridge View and Consort House in Aberdeen to provide a projected average annual cash yield of 7.5 per cent and a projected IRR of 9.5 per cent over a three year holding period to

Turkish Islamic bank Turkiye Finans, which is majority-owned by Saudi's National Commercial Bank, said its net profit rose 61 per cent year-on-year to 145 million lira ($80.3 million) in the first half. The bank has also plans to issue a $300 million

Indian stocks have emerged as the seventh best performer for global investors since the start of 2012, outshining the likes of the US, UK, China and Japan. Helped by a significant uptrend in the Indian stock market in the past couple of weeks, the Indian

China's shares ended largely flat Wednesday, as hopes for stimulus action from global central banks offset concerns about domestic economic growth. Investors were also cautious, refraining from taking fresh positions ahead of the release next week of key

The BSE Sensex falls 0.6 percent, while the Nifty declines 0.6 percent, led by software service exporters after monetary easing in China, the euro zone and Britain signal alarm about the global economy. Global investors now gear up for the U.S. monthly

Snapping three straight days of gains, the Sensex today fell 17 points amid a depreciating rupee as investors remained wary of the global economy's revival a day after central banks in EU, China and the UK loosened monetary policies. After resuming