The domestic rubber futures continued to remain subdued on Tuesday. RSS-4 weakened at its April contracts to ₹116.44 (117.01) and May to ₹116.83 (117.34) a kg on the Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX). The near-month April contracts were down by 0.49 per cent

The coronavirus epidemic is "far from over" in the Asia-Pacific region, and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for large-scale community transmissions, a WHO official said on Tuesday.

Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) futures plunged to an 11-year low on Monday as the coronavirus pandemic worsened and lockdowns tightened across the world, raising concerns over slower demand and prompting a flurry of fresh selling.

China is racing to produce several thousands of multifunction ventilators, as demand for the lifesaving machines skyrockets across the world due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the country's top industry regulator said on Monday (March 30).

The period since the beginning of March has seen almost the whole world coming to a standstill as the COVID-19 virus assumed a global pandemic with no certain end in sight. While the epidemic started receding in China by mid-March, it spread to several other

Top Glove Corp Bhd’s founder and chairman Tan Sri Lim Wee Chai’s entry into property developer LBS BINA GROUP BHD over the past week is noteworthy.

Rubber is a blessed word in these difficult times as its transformation into gloves has proved life-saving with even the world’s largest economy singing praises of Malaysia’s gloves.

Brent crude was down four percent Friday afternoon at $27.50 per barrel. US crude was five percent lower at $21.47 per barrel.

The International Monetary Fund said Friday that the global economy has fallen into a recession, with economic and social activities increasingly curtailed in many countries in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic is a shared emergency. It would be a paradox and a disaster if the outcome were to be the closure of borders to trade. Yet shortsighted export controls, protectionism and the economic slump may together have this result. Protection m