William Langley in Hong Kong

The second-highest ranking official at the International Monetary Fund, Geoffrey Okamoto, will step down early next year and be succeeded by the fund’s chief economist Gita Gopinath, months…

The level of Covid-19 hospitalisations in the US rose during November, ending a two-month run of declines following the country’s summer wave.The increase in hospitalisations has been…

An important gauge of economic activity in China dropped back into contraction territory in November after a brief rally in October, with demand remaining weak despite an easing of…

Naomi Rovnick in London, William Langley in Hong Kong and Nicholas Megaw in New YorkUS stocks partially recovered on Monday after news of the Omicron coronavirus variant triggered a sharp…