The first government shutdown in years started Wednesday after lawmakers and President Trump stopped negotiations and focused instead on trying to set up the other side to take the political blame.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday he was concerned about a report that China's state iron ore buyer had taken steps to pause purchases of iron ore ...

Japan will run a $550 billion U.S.-bound investment package agreed in Tokyo's tariff deal with Washington without any impact on the foreign exchange market, its top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa ...

VIENNA (Reuters) -Raiffeisen Bank International has failed in another attempt to sell a stake in its Russian business, two people familiar with the situation said, as Russia seeks to maintain a key ...

The quarterly survey, called the “tankan,” showed the outlook among major manufacturers, the key so-called diffusion index, rose 1 point to plus 14 from the findings in June. The tankan for large ...

Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday, with Chinese markets closed for a weeklong holiday, as a U.S. government shutdown loomed. Japan's Nikkei 225 index shed 1.2% to 44,411.26 after the Bank of ...

US stock futures pulled back as the US government entered a shutdown beginning Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. ET. At 12:01 Wednesday morning, the government entered shutdown after the Senate struck down both ...

U.S. stocks are coasting toward the finish of Wall Street's latest winning month on Tuesday. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% in afternoon trading but remains on track for a fifth straight winning month after ...

"The government should provide the minimum effective dose of regulation needed to protect investors while allowing businesses to flourish," Atkins wrote, adding that changes should not be driven by ...

Factory activity shrank in most of Asia's major economies in September, private surveys showed on Wednesday, as signs of a slowdown in U.S. growth and the expected impact of President Donald Trump's ...

Exxon Mobil Corp expects to cut the number of its employees in Singapore by 10% to 15% and move its office to the site of its Jurong plant from downtown by the end of 2027, in global restructuring ...

US stocks edged up on Tuesday as investors weighed the likely fallout of President Trump's latest tariff blitz and the US government careened toward its first shutdown in seven years. Both the Nasdaq ...