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Several business groups in Sri Lanka have asked the president to install a new government and resign immediately thereafter. With little more than $50 million in foreign exchange reserves, Sri Lanka is basically bankrupt and dependent on external...

In another blow to the embattled US economy, prices at the pump climbed to new record highs. The national average price for regular gasoline soared more than four cents on Tuesday to $4.37 a gallon, beating the prior record of $4.33 set in early Marc...

Bitcoin fell 10% on Monday after plunging again over the weekend. The industry standard cryptocurreny’s price has now dropped almost 20% in the past week.  Now sitting at a price just below $31,000, Bitcoin is more than 50% below its re...

The US Justice Department has indicted Mining Capital Coin (MCC) CEO Luiz Capuci Jr. for “allegedly orchestrating a $62 million global investment fraud scheme,” the federal agency said last Friday. MCC is a cryptocurrency mining and in...

The European Commission has proposed a sixth round of sanctions against Russia over its attack on Ukraine. The new restrictions include a plan to phase out all crude and oil products by the end of the year. Sanctions have so far not affected Russi...

The US Federal Reserve announced an interest rate hike of a half-percentage point in an attempt to take control of the worst inflation America has seen in 40 years. The central bank has not hiked rates this much in 22 years. The decision was unani...

India's Tata Motors is taking a frugal approach to entering the electric vehicle (EV) market. The company makes a little more than 100 EVs a day at its Pune plant, with many processes being carried out by hand to save money. Competitive protec...

South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, saw its consumer price index rise to 4.8% in April from 4.1% in March. The country’s consumer prices rose in April at their fastest pace in nearly 14 years due to red-hot food and energy pric...

US bond yields are at their highest level in years. With the US Fed aggressively raising interest rates in the face of surging inflation, cash is flowing back into bonds as investors seek insurance from a possible recession. This flight toward bon...

Indonesia, which is responsible for producing 60% of the world’s palm oil, has banned exports of the product due to inflation and supply concerns. The export ban has ratcheted up the pressure on worldwide prices of food and cooking oil, whic...

Samsung reported strong results on Thursday, with profits for the first quarter climbing more than 50% compared to the same time a year ago. The South Korean tech giant’s solid earnings were powered by strong sales of its memory chips, which...

Robinhood announced Tuesday that the online broker will lay off 9% of its staff, causing shares of the company's stock to hit a new low. The company defended its actions by claiming its financial position was strong, but it had too many duplic...

Twitter’s board has unanimously agreed to accept Elon Musk’s purchase offer of around $44 billion, the company said Monday. The deal is expected to close later this year. It has led employees to question the billionaire’s plans f...

The majority of India's monetary policy committee members argued in favor of action to curb inflationary pressures during their April meeting. Although it chose to keep its key lending rate at a record low, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said...

Nestlé, the world's biggest food and drinks company, increased prices by more than 5% in the first quarter of 2022 as it passed on rising costs to consumers. North American shoppers were worst affected, facing an 8.5% rise in prices. La...