Asian shares drifted off on Thursday as uncertainty over the outlook for both U.S. interest rates and the chance of global fiscal stimulus sucked the life out of markets. Not helping was a fresh slide in the Chinese yuan to an 11-year low, which dealers said prompted defensive buying from state-own»»»

BENGALURU: Singapore slashed its full-year economic growth forecast on Tuesday as global conditions were seen worsening and data confirmed the slowest growth rate in a decade amid mounting fears of recession in the city-state. The government cut its forecast range for gross domestic product in Sing»»»

(Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday after bleak earnings from industrial bellwethers Caterpillar and Boeing exacerbated concerns of a slowing global economy that have roiled financial markets this year. Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N), whose large exposure to China makes it a proxy for the global imp»»»

What do you do if you are a major Japanese investor, whose mandate is to invest in safe assets, yet the yield on Japanese govvies is too low to cover the cost of your liabilities? That's the question that Japan Post Bank Co., the banking unit of Japan Post Holdings, has been grappling with. Its ans»»»

SYDNEY - Asian share markets were mostly in the red on Wednesday as a risk-off mood gripped investors, while a frazzled pound awaited its fate ahead of yet another make-or-break parliamentary vote on Brexit. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan eased 0.4 percent in slow trade »»»

Major indexes in the Asia-Pacific region traded lower on Thursday after the United States Federal Reserve decided to raise the interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.25%-2.50%. Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan decided to leave its monetary policy unchanged, with the interest rate at a negative 0.1%. The»»»