[ad_1] SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Afterpay Touch Group Ltd, an early adopter of buy-now-pay-later consumer lending, has come under heavy selling pressure for consecutive trading days after credit card giant Visa Inc unveiled plans to

[ad_1] TOKYO (Reuters) – Factory activity shrank in most Asian countries in June as the simmering U.S.-China trade conflict put further strains on the region’s manufacturing sector, keeping policymakers under pressure to deploy stronger steps

[ad_1] (Corrects typo in paragraph 5) A general view shows the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman By Belén Carreño, Richard Lough and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Gold fell more than 1% on Monday to its lowest in more than a week as the dollar strengthened and investors opted for riskier assets after the United States and China agreed

[ad_1] BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A deal hatched among several key European leaders to award a former Dutch foreign minister the post of EU chief executive broke down at an emergency summit on Sunday after eastern

[ad_1] BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scores of Asia specialists, including former U.S. diplomats and military officers, want President Donald Trump to rethink policies that “treat China as an enemy,” warning the approach could hurt U.S. interests

[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s state planning agency on Sunday said it has cut the number of sectors subject to foreign investment restrictions, as Beijing moved to fulfill its promise to open major industries. A

[ad_1] TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan plans to tighten restrictions on the export of high-tech material used in smartphones and chips to South Korea from July 4 in connection with a dispute over a South Korean