BEIJING, Oct 31 (Reuters) – China’s Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, Chinese state media reported. It was the seventh mission to the permanently inhabited Chinese space station since…
Oct 31 (Reuters) – Global equity funds attracted massive investments in the week to October 29 ahead of an anticipated interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve and a trade deal between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Investors accumulated a net $10.58 billion worth of global equity funds, extending their…
Item 1 of 3 U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talk as they leave after a bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, in Busan, South Korea. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein [1/3]U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talk as they leave after…
Earnings from Amazon, Apple lift Nasdaq futures by 1.2% Nikkei heads for 15% monthly gain, South Korea stocks up 20% Chinese shares down as PMI misses forecast Dollar near 3-month highs SYDNEY, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Asian shares are set for a seventh straight month of gains on Friday, after upbeat earnings from Amazon and…
Xi to hold first talks with Japan’s new leader Takaichi Canada seeks to restart engagement with China Host South Korea warns of changes to free trade order Bessent stands in for Trump at APEC summit discussions GYEONGJU, Oct 31 (Reuters) – China’s Xi Jinping will take centre stage at an annual gathering of Pacific Rim…
BUSAN, South Korea/BEIJING, Oct 30 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump hailed a meeting with China’s Xi Jinping as “amazing” and “12” on a 10-point scale, but the agreement the two leaders reached appears to be no more than a fragile truce in a trade war with root causes still unresolved. The framework announced on…
LITTLETON, Colorado, Oct 30 (Reuters) – China’s booming car sector has upended the entire global carmaker industry over the past decade, especially its EV producers which have supplanted combustion engine cars in sales at home and have flooded global markets with record exports. But the country’s electric vehicle output and exports may now hit reverse…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee A handshake between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, an expected hold on rates from the Bank of Japan and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s cautious tone are all that investors can think about ahead of another onslaught of European earnings. Sign…
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Oct 30 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States will cut its tariffs on Chinese goods related to fentanyl to 10% from 20%, after his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. Xi will work “very hard to stop the flow” of fentanyl,…
BEIJING, Oct 30 (Reuters) – China has announced it will arrange for a Pakistan astronaut to perform short-term missions as part of China’s space station missions, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. The astronaut from Pakistan will train alongside Chinese astronauts, Xinhua said. Sign up here. Reporting by Liz Lee and Qiaoyi Li; Editing…