Vietnam's headline PMI from Markit’s survey and month-on-month IPI indicated slowing industrial activities in September, potentially causing negative impacts on GDP growth in the remaining months of the year. SEE MORE A tenuous supply and demand balance is expected in the global seaborne thermal coal market in 2020 as trade dynamics shift and new growth areas emerge, speakers at the CoalTrans Conference in Vietnam said Tuesday. SEE MORE A gold price as high as US$5,000 per ounce isn’t out of the question, but according to Gerardo Del Real of the Outsider Club, it would not come without a cost. SEE MORE India has decided not to join the China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to shield domestic industries from unfair competition, wary of possible dumping of goods by China. SEE MORE