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BEIJING (Reuters) - New bank loans in China likely fell in May, a Reuters poll showed, as the central bank gradually scales back pandemic-driven stimulus to reduce debt and financial risks as the econ...

By Echo Wang NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. payments startup Marqeta, which counts the likes of Uber and Stripe among existing backers, on Tuesday priced its initial public offering (IPO) well above the ta...

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has set up a group of experts to help it classify climate-friendly assets and stop "greenwashing" of investments that don't live up to their sustainable credent...

VIENNA (Reuters) - COVID-19 has shaken up the Economist Intelligence Unit's annual ranking of most liveable cities, propelling Auckland to first place, replacing Vienna, which crashed out of the top 1...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria state reported its lowest rise in new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in more than two weeks on Wednesday as authorities look set to lift a hard lockdown in the...

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador has secured $550 million in financing to carry out its coronavirus vaccination, an essential step to begin reviving its pandemic-hit economy, economy minister Simon Cueva sai...

LONDON (Reuters) - Around half of British adults visited a pornographic website or app in 2020, a year in which the COVID pandemic caused more activity of every kind to shift online, media regulator O...

(Reuters) - Chinese grocery app Dingdong Maicai, backed by investors including Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management, filed for a U.S. initial public offering on Tuesday, as it seeks more funds ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 68-32 to approve a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country's ability to compete with Chinese technology, as Congress incre...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil has had 52,911 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 2,378 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The South American cou...