Beijing should act faster to transform the mainland's economic growth pattern, boosting domestic consumption effectively and cutting its reliance on investment and exports, because growth is...
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- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated: 2:12am
How have financial markets reacted to news of the shutdown?
South Korea's September exports posted their biggest annual drop in seven months while consumer inflation eased to a 14-year low, likely keeping the policy rate near record lows as a firm recovery...
A sharp rise in the euro zone's current account surplus puts the focus firmly on what Germany's new government can do to boost consumption and revive in-vestment in Europe's largest economy.
How long can the US behave as dysfunctionally as it is without the US dollar collapsing or interest rates rising sharply as overseas investors such as China and Japan reconsider their positions in...
Australia's central bank kept its cash rate at a record low of 2.5 per cent yesterday as a report showed past interest rate reductions had lifted home prices to historic highs, although there was...
Manufacturing in the United States grew last month at its fastest clip in nearly 2½ years but expansion in China's massive factory sector was slight and deep divergences persisted in euro-zone...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a rise in the sales tax to 8 per cent in April from 5 per cent, in what is being seen as a key step on the road to reforming the economy.
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Wall Street took the partial shutdown of the US government in stride on Tuesday, but market analysts expected investor patience to run out if it lasts more than about a week, as a more worrisome...
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