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Stocks approach historically strong period but Fed taper looms

Investors are weighing whether momentum from stock market's record-breaking rally will continue in last two months of 2021, a traditionally strong calendar period for equities

China factory activity contracts for second month as input woes continue

The official manufacturing Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) was at 49.2 in October, down from 49.6 in September.

Centre proposes new rules to push green energy use in industries

The announcement comes just days after India rejected calls to announce a net zero carbon emissions target

G20 leaders endorse global minimum corporate tax deal for 2023 start

The conclusions are to be formally adopted on Sunday

Oil prices rebound, edge up ahead of next week's OPEC meeting

Brent and US crude oil benchmarks both declined on the week after reaching multi-year highs on Monday

Wall Street shakes off Amazon, Apple weakness to end modestly higher

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 89.08 points, or 0.25%, to 35,819.56

G20 wants 70% of world vaccinated by mid-2022, sets up pandemic task force

The previous goal had eyed vaccinating 70 per cent of the world's population by the autumn of 2022

Evergrande makes coupon payment before Friday deadline: Report

Evergrande, once China's top-selling developer, is reeling under more than $300 billion in liabilities

India's April-Sept fiscal deficit touches $70.4 billion: Govt data

Net tax receipts were 9.2 trillion rupees while total expenditure was 16.3 trillion rupees, the data showed

'Just give us our money': Taliban push to unlock Afghan billions

Afghanistan parked billions of dollars in assets overseas with the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks in Europe

Evergrande makes coupon payment ahead of Friday deadline: Reports

Shares of Evergrande rose more than 1% in early trading on Friday, versus a 0.4% decline in the Hang Seng Index.

Dollar holds losses to euro after ECB comments, economic data

The dollar held losses to the euro and British pound late on Thursday

Facebook changes name to Meta as it refocuses on virtual reality

The new name reflected its ambitions to build the metaverse, rather than its namesake social media service, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg

US growth rate slows to 2% on Delta surge, supply chain worries

Shortages, transportation bottlenecks, rising prices and the delta variant of the coronavirus weighed on both goods and services spending

S&P, Nasdaq hit record closing highs on earnings bullishness

Amazon.com, Apple fall in late trade after quarterly reports; Caterpillar, Merck rise after posting higher profits

Apple sales miss expectations, Cook says supply issues cost company $6 bn

Tim Cook said that the impact will be even worse during the current holiday sales quarter

Meme-teoric: 'Shiba inu' tokens gain 87,000,000% in a year

Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $1.2 trillion, was up a little over 4 per cent on Thursday, but below the record high it hit last week

China builders hit by downgrades as Evergrande deadline looms

Evergrande faces a final deadline on Friday for a $47.5 million coupon payment that was due September 29

France seizes UK fishing boat in deepening post-Brexit row

It's not war, but it is a fight, says French minister; extra customs checks on British goods

Oil prices hit two-week low on Iran talks resuming, US crude build

Brent crude was $1.06, or 1.2%, lower at $83.52 a barrel by 12:31 p.m ET (1631 GMT), having hit a two-week low of $82.32 earlier in the session and falling 2.1% on Wednesday.