Premier League football club Manchester United announced on Friday a new partnership with e-commerce giant Alibaba as it aims to raise its profile and merchandise sales in the world’s second-largest economy....

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allied oil exporters led by Russia have reportedly agreed to deepen production cuts and to reduce daily output by 500,000 barrels during their mee...

The financial struggles of the US shale industry are becoming increasingly hard to ignore, but drillers in Appalachia are in particularly bad shape. The Permian has recently seen job...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies are moving closer to agreeing one of the deepest output cuts this decade to support crude prices and prevent a glut, sources told Reute...

Restricting Russia’s access to the SWIFT international banking payment system would virtually mean a declaration of war, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned. Speaking to reporte...

Nothing fundamental in the US-China trade spat is going to change in the near future, according to Richard Wolff of the Economic Update. He talks to RT’s Boom Bust, saying: “What we’r...

With stock prices consistently breaking new records, a normal reversal is bound to happen sooner or later. That could boost gold to a new all-time high, says Bloomberg Intelligence (BI)....

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Bulgaria of delaying the construction of its section of the TurkStream gas pipeline. He said that Russia could, however, find ways to bypass the country, if necessary...

Environmental lawyers have filed a legal complaint against British energy giant BP, accusing the company of misleading consumers over its low-carbon energy in a huge advertising campaign....

US President Donald Trump defended American tech giants while meeting French President Emmanuel Macron in London. Trump railed against France’s new digital tax which targets the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook...

Next year is expected to be a turnaround for oil demand in India, according to a new study by S&P Global Platts Analytics. With weakened demand caused by an economic slowdown, a slump...

Berlin will consider countermeasures if the US imposes sanctions on Nord Stream 2, the pipeline that will deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany, the head of the Bundestag’s Committee on Economic Affairs and...

Pakistan has seen unprecedented inflows of foreign money this year. Global investors bought 1-year bonds worth $642 million in November alone. That is expected to reach a record $3 bi...

Despite a massive national programme to get us saving more, Britain is still sleepwalking into a crisis

US President Donald Trump’s administration considered banning Huawei from the American financial system earlier this year, sources told Reuters. That was part of a host of policy options to thwart the blackliste...

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been bailing out the repo market with multi-billion dollar programs every week, says the Keiser Report, which asks if it’s the fourth round of quantitative easing (QE)....

US President Donald Trump says it might be better to wait until after the November 2020 general election in the United States to reach a trade agreement with China. “In some ways, I l...

The third-largest economy in Asia should rebound in 2020 as global conditions are set to improve, helping India's economic growth to pick up, according to US investment bank Goldman Sachs....

Stock markets around the world tumbled following US President Donald Trump’s latest tweets, reigniting fears about global trade tensions. Wall Street closed one percent lower on Monda...

The leading credit rating agency said Islamabad’s financial situation is on a path of improvement and expressed hope that the help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mitigates the risks to its economy....

Washington has threatened to impose new tariffs on trade with the European Union after the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that the EU had not complied with an order to halt illegal subsidies to airplane ma...

The second phase of the China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA) has come into effect, allowing Pakistani manufacturers and traders to export around 313 new products to the Chinese market on a duty-free basis...

In a move to cement energy cooperation with the fast-growing economies in Asia, Russia officially launched delivery of natural gas supplies to China, via the Power of Siberia pipeline, on Monday....

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which has been blacklisted by the US, has managed to start making devices without American parts, replacing them with components sourced elsewhere. Acco...

Indian companies IREL (Erstwhile Indian Rare Earths Ltd) and KABIL (Khanij Bidesh India Ltd) are looking into rare earth elements projects in Russia, according to Russia’s Far East Investment and Export Agency....

Repossessions up 40 per cent in a year as experts warn of a 'mass exodus'. But should amateur property investors be throwing in the towel just yet?

India and Russia are in talks to source coking coal in Russia’s Far East, as New Delhi is seeking to diversify from its traditional suppliers such as the US, Canada and Australia. In...

TSB reveals the locations of 82 branches set for the chop as yet another bank suffers massive service failure

The volume of trade between the UK and Russia may rise eight percent in 2019 compared to last year, the Russian Trade Representative to the UK announced at a business forum in London....

Asia’s population could grow by approximately 250 million in the next decade. While consumers are demanding safer, healthier, and more sustainable food, a new study shows the continent is “unable to feed itself....

MIR payment system, developed by Russia in response to Western sanctions, is set to hit the European market. It will launch a pilot project at the Russian-British business forum in London on Wednesday....

You might be surprised to know that Americans consume far less energy on Thanksgiving than on a regular Thursday, despite the fact that the nation will use 350GW to roast 46 million turkeys....

How do the main parties' pledges on tax, care, homes and the rest really compare?

A joint Russia-China investment body is considering 70 projects totaling $112 billion, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has announced after an intergovernmental commission meeting in Beijing....

Counterfeit goods, fraudulent websites, overspending – there are real dangers for Christmas shoppers

Holidays are coming. And so is the extra borrowing

Russian gold miners in the Far Eastern region of Magadan have extracted more gold than some countries' entire bullion reserves. They’ve mined over 40 tons of the precious metal since the beginning of 2019....

New research challenges our belief in the single premium

The Kremlin may have felt ‘some anxiety’ when the US started sanctioning Russia, but in the end that only made its economy stronger. Investors seem to agree, with Russian bonds now deemed more appealing than tho...

A number of European countries have been lately pushing their own digital taxes for tech giants. The Czech Republic is now seeking to introduce a seven percent digital sales tax. RT’s...

US authorities are reportedly investigating whether one of Sweden's largest lenders, Swedbank, breached US sanctions targeting Russia as it allowed transactions between Russian arms producer Kalashnikov and its...

The National Bank of Serbia has been instructed by President Aleksandar Vucic to continue boosting gold reserves in order to create an economic bulwark for the country. “I think we’ll...

The Arctic Palladium project which involves development of several platinum-group metal deposits on Russia’s Taimyr Peninsula is nearing completion. It is expected to turn Russia into the world’s top producer of...

It's no good. As the nights draw in and the prospect of a bleak mid winter fills you with dread, the call of the winter break is getting stronger. Now, what about travel insurance?

In six weeks' time your train travel will get more expensive but there are things you can do now to prepare

Struggling savers remain in the dark as route to ownership winds down

Just 44 per cent of 1.1m people currently claiming get full state support in old age

Some flight attendants with American Airlines remain fearful of flying the Boeing 737 MAX, despite the plane-maker nearing regulatory approval for a software update. The jet has been grounded after two fatal cra...