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MSCI Asia Pacific Excluding Japan Index fell 2.1 percent to 399.04 as of 10:38 a.m.in Hong Kong, as commodity producers led declines after raw-material prices tumbled. Oil dropped. Australian bonds gave back Monday’s gains.

“Stop the genocide!” as protesters block the road, a long line of Seattle police in front of them, at Fifth Avenue and Olive Way outside the Westin in downtown Seattle as Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with USA political and business leaders Tuesday.

The agency expects production to hit a low of 8.6 million barrels a day in mid-2016.

Wiliams said that although the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had voted to hold rates at last week’s meeting, it was a close call and he expected a rate rise later this year. Both said they expected a hike this year. “As we have outlined, the domestic economy...

Mike van Dulken, head of research at Accendo Markets, said investors are feeling uneasy after the Fed highlighted “concerns about external factors such as China, market volatility and deflation derailing a [U.S.] recovery”.

However, the central bank maintained its bias towards a rate hike sometime this year, while lowering its long-term outlook for the economy.

With the US Fed’s decision to maintain status quo in monetary policy creating the buzz that the Reserve Bank of India would indeed cut rates later this month, economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das on Friday said the Fed’s move was positive for India, adding that...

“We may continue to see a downward progression for stock markets, as investors adjust to a world where growth is expected to be weaker…”

“Leaving United States interest rates at rock bottom could mark a turning point for the relative performance of emerging and developed markets”, said analyst Jasper Lawler at CMC Markets UK.

President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to prepare for at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, the White House said on Thursday.

Croatia closed all but one of its eight border crossings with Serbia after more than 13,000 people, who were turned away from Hungary, flooded into the country in a matter of days. The train with eleven carriages left Friday morning carrying hundreds to refugee centers in the...

Mumbai :Under pressure to cut interest rates to lower cost of capital, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday said keeping inflation low is the key task for sustainable economic growth of the country.

Social affairs minister Aleksandar Vulin said Serbia will take Croatia to global courts if the border crossings remain closed, arguing that Croatia should have been prepared for the influx.

Mike van Dulken, head of research at Accendo Markets, said investors are feeling uneasy after the Fed highlighted “concerns about external factors such as China, market volatility and deflation derailing a [U.S.] recovery”.

But he said full us employment should be achieved “in the near future” and inflation, while still too low for comfort, should gradually move back to a 2-percent goal.