Gold prices broke $4,000 on Wednesday for the first time as investors piled into the safe haven over expectations for US interest rate cuts and worries over the US government shutdown.

Vietnam was designated an emerging market by a major index provider for the first time on Wednesday, a long-awaited upgrade that could accelerate foreign investment into one of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing economies.

Says, global growth to slow "only slightly this year and next"

Donald Trump’s second administration has upended long-standing conventions in diplomacy, defence, fiscal policy, trade, public health, and more.

Big Pharma is proving the mantra that prevention is better than cure.

Canada has signed a bilateral free trade agreement with Indonesia, which aims to eliminate or reduce tariffs on over 95 percent of Ottawa’s exports to its largest market in Southeast Asia.

President Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he could funnel aid to American farmers -- a big political support base -- hit by fallout from his trade wars.

Gold gained on Friday after US inflation data came in line with expectations, reinforcing bets that the Federal Reserve may continue with interest rate cuts later this year.

"We will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any branded or patented pharmaceutical product"

As ChatGPT nears its third birthday, at least one in 10 retail investors is using a chatbot to pick stocks, fuelling a boom in the robo-advisory market, but even fans say it is a high-risk strategy that cannot replace traditional advisors just yet.

Thapanee Kiatphaibool, governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), said the Thai baht has appreciated by 7.24 percent since the beginning of the year, rising from 34.23 to the US dollar in January 2025 to 31.75 in September.

The United States expects to finalise trade deals with more Southeast Asian countries in the coming months, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said during a meeting with regional counterparts on Wednesday.

A report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warns that recent changes in US tariff policy have had a significant impact on Asean economies, with total exports to the US projected to fall by as much as 9.7 percent. The heaviest losses are expected for export-driven economies such as Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.

US President Donald Trump hailed on Friday a call with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, claiming a deal to sell blockbuster app TikTok could be a “formality” and saying he would visit China, which gave a more cautious assessment of their talks.

The drive is part of the most ambitious effort to expand US maritime influence since the 1970s

Old-fashioned barter is on the rise in Russia's foreign trade for the first time since the 1990s

US consumer inflation rose last month to its highest level since January, government data showed Thursday, although analysts believe that this will not deter the central bank from an interest rate cut next week.

Group of Seven nations’ finance ministers discussed in a call on Friday further sanctions on Russia and possible tariffs on countries that they consider “enabling” its war in Ukraine, as the US called on its allies to impose tariffs on purchasers of Russian oil.

Trump also said he would be speaking with Modi "in the upcoming weeks," and Modi in response said he was "looking forward" to it.

Trump has spent his first seven months in office building up massive tariff increases to reorder the global trading system