Japan's exports likely fell for a 15th straight month and machinery orders were seen down again, a Reuters poll found on Friday, amid mounting fears the coronavirus outbreak is tipping the economy into recession.
Nepal has closed all of its Himalayan peaks including Mount Everest this climbing season because of fears of the coronavirus outbreak, a government minister said on Friday.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking court permission to reconsider certain aspects of its decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft Corp, court filings showed on Thursday.
(RTTNews) - Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (JAPSY.OB) announced Friday its decision to temporarily reduce domestic services between March 16 and March 28 in response to the Coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak.
Chinese shares, the yuan and government bond futures fell on Friday amid a global market meltdown triggered by intensifying fears over the global spread of the coronavirus.
Chinese shares, the yuan and government bond futures fell on Friday amid a global market meltdown triggered by intensifying fears over the global spread of the coronavirus.
Turkey's industrial production output is expected to have expanded 8.5% annually in January, for a fifth consecutive month of growth, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday.
The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testified on Thursday on Capitol Hill that public health officials discussed coronavirus information in classified rooms on occasions “too numerous to count," though he said the information wasn't treated as classified.
(RTTNews) - Indian shares crashed in early trade on Friday, following extremely weak cues from other global markets amid rising worries over the spread of coronavirus across the world.
SoftBank Group Corp said on Friday it will buy back up to 7% of its own shares for as much as 500 billion yen ($4.8 billion) - a decision that comes after activist investor Elliott Management pressed for $20 billion in stock buybacks.
The Turkish lira traded steady at 6.32 against the dollar early on Friday after the government took measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, closing schools and universities and deciding to hold sports events without spectators.
Malaysia's industrial production rose 0.6% in January from a year earlier, the second straight month of slower expansion on a decline in the mining and electricity sectors, government data showed on Friday.
Oil fell a third day as the horror show for crude investors continued on Friday amid panic about evaporating demand from the coronavirus pandemic, with Brent set for its biggest weekly loss since 1991 and U.S. crude heading for its worst week since 2008.
MUMBAI (Reuters Breakingviews) - India can afford to give consumers a boost. An effective month-long ban on foreign tourist visas goes into force on Friday as the government seeks to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Travel restrictions make sense to prevent a big
Asian markets looked to policymakers on Friday to help ease a cash shortage as cratering stock markets triggered a rush to dollars, driving many regional currencies lower and threatening a surge in short-term borrowing costs.
(RTTNews) - Asian stock markets are plunging on Friday after U.S. stocks fell by the most since the "Black Monday" market crash in 1987. Global panic selling continued amid mounting fears that stimulus packages will not be enough to avert a global recession following the coronav