World Economy

Malaysia’s exports unexpectedly declined by 2% year-on-year in February, significantly below market expectations of an 8% growth, mainly due to a shorter working month and the high-base effect…

German industrial output fell by the biggest amount in 2-1/2 years in February, data showed on Friday, as factories in Europe’s largest economy throttled back in the face of the rising threat of…

Lebanon›s prime minister called for international help on Friday to cope with the impact of war in neighboring Syria, and France responded with a pledge of €550 million ($672 million) in grants…

World stock markets slid Friday after Beijing vowed to fight back against the Trump administration’s latest threats of yet more tariffs on Chinese imports, renewing investor fears of a brewing…

The Bank of Japan has surpassed overseas investors to become the largest net buyer of Japanese stocks since the launch of Abenomics in late 2012, suggesting the market’s heavy dependence on the…

The Qatari economic approach has proved its flexibility despite the unjust siege imposed on the country that violates all international laws and regulations, ambassador of Qatar to Germany,…

Consumer prices in the Philippines rose by 4.3% in March, the fastest since August 2014 and above the government’s target range for 2018, partly due to the double-digit jump in prices of “sin”…

North Korea could reportedly face a currency crisis as early as this year due to the biting international sanctions on the country, KBS World Radio reported.

It looks like the peak of the synchronized global economic recovery may already be behind us. The JP Morgan-IHS Markit Global All-Industry Output Index—an aggregate measure of manufacturing and…

The US trade deficit widened by more than forecast to a fresh nine-year high in February on broad-based demand for imports ahead of the Trump administration tariffs that have raised the specter…

Regulated financial institutions in India can no longer legally deal with cryptocurrencies, the Reserve Bank of India announced Thursday.

Foreign exchange markets trod water on Wednesday, with investors seemingly unable to make up their minds about any wider fallout from a Sino-US trade dispute, though the safe-haven Japanese yen…

The International Finance Corporation projects Sub-Saharan Africa economy will surpass the $2 trillion in the next two years.

In a new report, IFC says despite the recent economic drag,…

Indonesia has drawn up a road map for upgrading five manufacturing sectors and making the country one of the world’s 10 biggest economies.

New foreign direct investments pledged to South Korea in the first three months of this year jumped 28.1% compared with a year ago on the back of improved ties with China, government data showed…

The year 2018 is likely to be Iraq’s lucky year, as its economy is expected to witness a boost amid reconstruction efforts, Menafn reported. Iraqi economy is forecast to grow 1.5% in 2018 before…

Moody’s Investors Service has predicted that Vietnam’s gross domestic product growth will remain robust, averaging 6.7% in 2018, VNA reported. This is nearly twice as high as the average for B-…

Japan's economic output exceeded its full capacity by the most in a decade in the October-December quarter, the Bank of Japan estimated, a positive sign for the central bank as it seeks to…

China’s Anbang Insurance Group on Wednesday said it will receive a 60.8 billion yuan ($9.7 billion) capital injection from an industry fund to stabilize its finances during a search for…

Foreign investment in France rose 16% in 2017 to levels not seen for a decade as President Emmanuel Macron’s bid to attract money from abroad gains pace, a government report said late Tuesday.…

The United States on Tuesday announced a proposed list of products imported from China that could be subject to additional tariffs of 25% amounting to $50 billion.

Lebanon is hoping to raise billions of dollars at a France-led donor meeting on Friday to stave off an economic crisis in the world’s third most indebted country.

Growth in the small…

Unemployment in the 19 countries that use the euro fell to its lowest level in nearly a decade as the region’s economy benefits from waning worries over the currency union’s problems with too…

BRICS countries, led by South Africa, are going to prioritize the digital economy in the development of cheaper, quicker and faster digital and mobile technology. BRICS compromises five major…

The main actors in this trade war might be the United States and China, but Europe’s largest economy certainly has something to say: Germany, worried that US President Donald Trump is on course…