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Thailand's current account surplus was $3.38 billion in November, up from $2.91 billion in October, the central bank said on Monday.

China's blue-chip index closed at an eight-month high on Monday, as the country's central bank planned to switch benchmark for floating-rate loans to lower funding costs, while investors cheered signs of economic resilience following a Sino-U.S. trade truce.

Australian shares slipped on Monday, tracking a weak Wall Street finish, and as a number of top real estate and industrial firms traded ex-dividend to weigh on the benchmark index.

What do you do when daily stock market gyrations all but dry up? Apparently, trade volatility like never before.

The $2.2 trillion repurchase agreement market - part of the inner workings of the U.S. financial system - is facing what could be another strain as the year comes to a close. That could have wider implications than just Wall Street.

Whatever nickname ultimately gets attached to the now-ending Twenty-tens, on Wall Street and across Corporate America it arguably should be tagged as the "Decade of Debt."

Oil prices rose more than 20% this year but there were no sharp spikes and crude futures barely sniffed $70 a barrel despite attacks on the world's biggest oil producer, sanctions that crippled crude exports of two OPEC members and gigantic supply cuts from big oil producing countries.

Boris Johnson’s futile attempt to close down the UK parliament was not his finest hour

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Most Southeast Asian markets rose on Monday, with Malaysian equities hitting an over 4-month high, as investor sentiment was buoyed by positive developments around the Sino-U.S. trade deal. South China Morning Post quoted a Chinese official saying that ­Beijing will live up to its trade...