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View all search resultsMcDonald's quit Russia after a Western backlash against Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine, which included a barrage of economic sanctions, and sold all the restaurants it owned to a local licensee in May.
3 years agoIn her opening remarks to the meeting, Sri Mulyani said Indonesia would be an honest broker and find creative solutions to overcome the "triple threat" of surging commodity prices, global inflation and war. ...
3 years agoThe two-day meeting Bali started under the shadow of a war that has roiled markets, spiked food prices and stoked breakneck inflation, a week after Moscow's top diplomat walked out of talks with the forum's foreign ministers. ...
3 years agoBelow-par earnings from Wall Street titans JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley compounded worries that companies' bottom lines would be hit by the economic fallout from a series of issues including rising prices, monetary policy tightening and the war in Ukraine.
3 years agoIn its statement, Celsius, which suspended withdrawals in mid-June, said it was seeking to restructure in a way that would maximize value for all stakeholders, and said it had $167 million of cash available to meet urgent needs in the meantime.
3 years agoThe move follows similar increases around the world as war in Ukraine and supply disruptions fan inflation and increase the financial strain on households and businesses.
3 years agoWith inflation rising globally amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, some countries, including in Europe, have reverted to coal and other fossil fuel-based power or delayed their energy transition out of concerns over affordability and supplies.
3 years ago"Holcim... bears a significant share of the responsibility for the climate crisis as well as for the situation on... Pari," Yvan Maillard Ardenti, climate expert at Swiss Church Aid (HEKS), said on the charity's website.
3 years agoStock prices on Wall Street retreated after a sharp uptick in US inflation to 9.1 percent in June increased the risk of a possible recession.
3 years agoIn a blog published ahead of this week's meeting of finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Russia's war in Ukraine had darkened the economic outlook significantly, and the IMF was poised to downgrade its outlook for 2022 and 2023.
3 years agoRussia's invasion of Ukraine overshadowed a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of 20 major economies last week, as Russia's top diplomat walked out of a meeting and accused the West of "frenzied criticism".
3 years agoIndia's Directorate Of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) found evidence that Oppo wrongfully used duty exemptions for items imported for use in mobile phone production, a government statement said.
3 years agoIndonesia, as the current president of G20, repeatedly berated the WTO for its inability to bring justice for developing countries in the international trade system, especially in the case of Jakarta's trade disputes with the European Union.
3 years agoIMF warns that central bank digital currency (CBDC) may lower competitiveness of a currency in its country of origin, risking its sovereignty over stronger, foreign exchange.
3 years agoThe euro clawed its way back slightly after hitting parity with the dollar for the first time in two decades, though it remains under pressure from growing concerns about an energy crisis across the eurozone and the European Central Bank's slower pace of monetary tightening.
3 years agoTokopedia, along with Gojek and GoTo, is gearing up to hold another Kelas Maju Digital (KMD) this year, after the success of the initiative last year.
3 years agoIndonesia has chosen to carefully adjust to the global trend of rising fuel prices as it shields its economy from uncontrolled inflation.
3 years agoThe dollar index, a measure against six counterparts, with the euro most heavily weighted, was 0.2 percent higher at 108.43. It had earlier climbed to 108.47, its highest since October 2002.
3 years agoIndonesia may miss this year’s oil-output target due to project delays, an official at the Upstream Oil and Gas Special Regulatory Taskforce (SKK Migas) said.
3 years agoMarket leading growth stocks pulled all three major US stock indexes into negative territory, with risk-off sentiment exacerbated by Macau's first casino shutdown in over two years to curb the spread of COVID-19.
3 years agoThe government is enacting the nationwide B35 biodiesel program by the end of July as an effort to boost the domestic use of palm oil to help raise CPO prices.
3 years agoMusk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc, said on Friday he was terminating his deal to buy Twitter because the company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.
3 years ago"Gazprom announced that today it will supply to Eni volumes of gas for approximately 21 million cubic meters/day, while the average for the last few days was of about 32 million cubic meters/day," Eni said.
3 years agoNord Stream I, the biggest single pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany, starts annual maintenance on Monday. Flows are expected to stop for 10 days, but governments, markets and companies fear the shut-down might be extended due to war in Ukraine and could disrupt plans to fill storage for winter.
3 years agoThe government's sea lane program needs to be complemented with an industrial development program targeting the eastern regions so they can manufacture goods to balance inbound-outbound logistics costs for shipments from western regions.
3 years agoSri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will resign on Wednesday after thousands of protesters stormed his official residence and secretariat on Saturday, an official said. Protesters also set fire to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's private residence.
3 years agoTwo multinational companies have expressed interest in investing in the Nusantara capital city project, the government has said, after Japan's Softbank pulled out of the enterprise in March.
3 years agoAn upbeat US June payrolls report already has the market wagering heavily on a hike of 75 basis points from the Federal Reserve this month, and sending bond yields higher.
3 years agoTravel and tourism, the industry hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic over more than two years, has started to bounce back amid the increasingly eased restrictions and people’s growing interest in traveling again, supported by digital technology.
3 years agoIndonesia will need some US$6.9 trillion per year for green infrastructure construction to achieve its 2030 sustainable development targets as stipulated in the Paris Agreement.
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