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With stagnant prices and few properties for sale, the city is feeling London’s pain

Investors poured money into most asset classes last week, with bond funds attracting $23.6 billion and equities and emerging markets benefiting too, analysts at BofA said, noting the high levels of cheap money available after 800 rate cuts worldwide since the financial crisis.

Turkish local assets were hit last week by one of the largest bouts of foreign disinvestment in the last five years, Deutsche Bank said on Friday.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam pledged HK$4.7 billion ($605 million) on Friday to the city's Hospital Authority as it grapples to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The government’s pledge to protect the nation’s fishing industry could yet torpedo a trade deal with the EU

Protecting UK fishing means cracking down on free movement of shoals

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer will suggest a successor for her role as leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) on Feb. 24, German magazine Focus said on its website.

Most Southeast Asian stock markets closed lower on Friday after wavering between small gains and losses for most parts of the day, as investors assessed the impact of the coronavirus outbreak after an updated diagnostic method continued to reveal more cases. China's National Health Commission said...

A new coronavirus has taken a growing toll of Chinese health workers on the front line of the fight to stop it, a top official said on Friday, as authorities reported more than 5,000 new cases, including more than 120 deaths.

The UK suffers from its opaque and deeply dysfunctional land market