JP Morgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank by assets, agreed Friday to pay 5.1 billion U.S. dollars in settlements with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to address claims of mis-selling mortgage-backed securities and home loans before the 2008 financial crisis.
Foreign direct investment inflows into the Chinese mainland climbed 4.88 percent in September, compared to a year ago.
The 2013 edition of the Forbes China Rich List published on Wednesday identified a record 168 billionaires in the country.
Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem late Monday stopped short of giving any specific figures regarding the size of the fiscal gap in Greece's adjustment program.
Russia would increase spending on its nuclear arsenals by 50 percent in the next three years, a parliamentary defense committee said Tuesday.
Though autumn is just arriving in China's warm south, local ceramic firms have already felt the chill.
The final budget outcome for the 2012-13 financial year was a deficit of 18.8 billion AU dollars ( 17.5 billion U.S. dollars), Australian federal government data released on Friday shows.
South Korea planned to raise its defense budget next year to strengthen missile and combat capabilities against possible provocations from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), a government report showed Thursday.
Dalian Wanda Group, owned by China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, unveiled a plan on Sunday to build the world's biggest film studio in the eastern coastal city of Qingdao.
The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it would keep its monthly pace of bond purchases unchanged for now to stimulate the economy.
The Japanese government said Thursday that the country's good trade deficit stood at 960.3 billion yen (about 9.8 billion U.S. dollars) in August, mainly due to the yen's slide and growing demand for energy.
Real estate tycoon Wang Jianlin is the richest man in China with a personal fortune of 135 billion yuan (22 billion U.S. dollars), according to the Hurun Rich List released Wednesday in Beijing.
Myanmar and Japan will cooperate on a wide range of health issues mainly including combating tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS and malaria, official media reported Friday.
South Korea's foreign currency reserves continued a record-breaking trend last month due to a rise in investment returns, central bank data showed Wednesday.
Pakistani government is likely to receive more than 2 billion of U.S. dollars from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week under its new three- year bailout program, local media reported Tuesday.
Australian Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO) has been released by the Departments of Treasury and Finance on Tuesday.
Australia recorded its fifth consecutive monthly trade surplus in June, as a slight drop in the value of exports was offset by a larger fall in imports, Trade Minister Richard Marles said in a press release on Tuesday.
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