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Hungary's economy increased by 0.9% on a quarterly basis in the third quarter as it returned to growth after tipping into recession last year, data showed on Tuesday, while activity in Romania and Slovakia also expanded in the period.

Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) is looking to buy a total of 104,677 metric tons of food-quality wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a regular tender that will close on Thursday.

China's state-backed Bishop of Beijing visited Hong Kong on Tuesday amid fears among some Catholics that Beijing wants tighter control over religious affairs in Hong Kong.

(RTTNews) - SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES (SGTSF.PK, SGTSY.PK) posted a third quarter negative EBIT of 4.9 million euros, compared to EBIT of 8.0 million euros in the previous year. Sales declined to 14.1 million euros from 23.3 million euros, previous year.

Kalyan Jewellers India reported a 27.1% rise in its second-quarter profit on Tuesday, helped by rising domestic demand for its ready-to-wear jewellery line and increased traffic at stores ahead of the festive season.

European stocks edged higher on Tuesday, led by automobiles and basic resources shares, as investors geared up for a key U.S. inflation report that could offer more clarity on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy outlook.

China has ordered its local governments to halt public-private partnership projects identified as "problematic" and replaced a 10% budget spending allowance for these ventures with a vetting mechanism by Beijing as it tries to curb municipal debt risks.

(RTTNews) - AerCap Holdings N.V. (AER) announced the pricing of a secondary offering of 26.72 million of its ordinary shares by GE Capital US Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric Company, at a price to the public of $65.25 per ordinary share.

Apple Inc supplier Foxconn reported on Tuesday a surprise 11% increase in third-quarter profit, boosted by strong demand for smart consumer electronics ahead of the year-end holiday shopping season in Western markets.

(RTTNews) - Swiss drug major Roche Holding AG (RHHBY) announced Tuesday that the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use or CHMP has recommended the approval of Tecentriq (atezolizumab) subcutaneous or SC, i.e., under the skin injection.

German television group ProSiebenSat1 on Tuesday said it expected its full-year revenue to fall slightly below its target range due to a weaker advertising business.

The Russian rouble strengthened to a 3-1/2 month high against the dollar in early trade on Tuesday, buoyed by exporters' foreign currency sales, high interest rates and recovering oil prices.

If Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time in a year later this week, he will likely raise the case of a detained company executive that has dealt an outsized blow to their close economic ties.

Japan's Kioxia on Tuesday reported a 100.8 billion yen ($664.5 million) operating loss in the second quarter as earnings were hit by an ongoing slump in demand for memory chips used in smartphones and PCs.

The Taliban's acting commerce minister met Pakistan's foreign minister in Islamabad this week, an Afghan embassy statement said on Tuesday, discussing trade and how the thousands of Afghan citizens Pakistan is expelling could take cash and other assets back to their homeland.

The battered yen was stuck near a three-decade low against the dollar on Tuesday, struggling to find a floor as the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) ultra-easy monetary policy settings remained at odds with the prospect of higher-for-longer rates elsewhere.

Rugby Australia (RA) have secured agreement from New South Wales (NSW) to take over the provincial union's high performance programme as part of a "strategic reset" but have work to do to convince the other states to sign up, RA boss Phil Waugh said.

(RTTNews) - German utility RWE AG (RWEOY.PK) reported Tuesday that its nine-month adjusted net income was 3.38 billion euros, compared to last year's 1.49 billion euros.

RWE, Germany's top utility, on Tuesday posted an 82% increase in core profit for the first nine months, lifted by the group's commodity trading business as well as higher margins for its gas-fired power plants.

Bitcoin miners are making hay while the sun shines. The business has been yanked out of the doldrums by the cryptocurrency's recent rally - and now mining companies are racing to lock in profits before bitcoin's "halving", when rewards for producing the tokens are cut in half.