By Abhirup Roy, Norihiko Shirouzu and Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Elon Musk's new plan to use current product lines as the basis for new affordable vehicles — rather than springing for all-new models — follows the playbook ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's private home prices reversed a 10-month falling streak in March, climbing 1.1% from February, after the financial city lifted curbs to boost the ailing property market. The increase in home prices in one of the ...

(Reuters) - The Bank of Japan kept its short-term rates steady on Friday while removing a reference to the amount of government bonds it has roughly committed to buying each month. As widely expected, the BOJ maintained its short-term ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan kept interest rates unchanged on Friday and issued fresh estimates projecting inflation to stay near its 2% target in the next three years, signalling its readiness to hike borrowing costs later this year. As ...

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Elon Musk's social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as "part of public discussion", rejecting a regulator's order to take down the content on ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing city authorities have announced subsidies for firms that purchase domestically produced artificial intelligence (AI) chips, as China seeks to develop its semiconductor industry and reduce reliance on foreign ...

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian shares rose cautiously on Friday as markets sobered up to the idea that U.S. rate cuts were most likely some time away, while the yen and Japanese government bonds struggled ahead of a closely watched policy ...

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's central bank is widely expected to hold its key interest rate at a record 22% for the seventh straight policy meeting on Monday as Pakistan gears up for an International Monetary Fund board approval ...

By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's public finances are no longer a strength for its sovereign credit rating but are now a neutral factor requiring near-term efforts to contain the rise in debt, global ratings agency Fitch said. "We've ...

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The yen hit its weakest in three decades against the U.S. dollar after the Bank of Japan left interest rates on hold on Friday, keeping traders on edge as to when and to what degree authorities in Tokyo may ...