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Asian stocks mostly fall, tracking global slide
Asian stocks mostly fall, tracking global slide
Economy
by  AFP

Asian markets mostly fell Friday, tracking a global slide in stocks fuelled by tame tech earnings and investor jitters less than a week before neck-and-neck US elections. "Markets have already priced in some risks of a second Trump presidency as they await the US presidential election," Lloyd Chan, an analyst at MUFG Global Markets Research, said in a note.

In US swing state Pennsylvania, inflation means 'rent or eating'
In US swing state Pennsylvania, inflation means 'rent or eating'
Economy
by  AFP

In Pennsylvania, the biggest swing state prize in the US presidential election, renters -- whether still working or retired -- are struggling. According to the latest data from the Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania, some 16 percent of renters in Dauphin county are facing the threat of eviction.