Global stocks sagged on Friday as investors brushed off monetary stimulus measures by China, Europe and Britain as insufficient to reverse a global economic slowdown and attention turned to the ...

China’s economy continues to face a difficult balance as weak domestic demand, a prolonged property downturn and external g ...

Japan is set to compile on Friday a record $490 billion spending package to cushion the economic blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, bucking a global trend towards withdrawing crisis-mode stimulus ...

With active transactions, upbeat market sentiment, cyclically stronger consumption, and more often than not, economic ...

Most Japanese companies expect a slowdown in China’s economy to persist into 2025, with nearly two thirds of firms that operate there looking to shift some production elsewhere in search of sales in ...

About 45.2 percent of respondents now expect housing prices to increase, up 8.6 percentage points from the previous survey in ...

SHANGHAI, May 20 (Reuters) - China left benchmark lending rates unchanged for the 12th consecutive month in May on Wednesday, in line with market expectations. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT Ample interbank ...

China’s economic engine stumbled badly at the start of the second quarter, as the National Bureau of Statistics reported on May 18, 2026, that the country’s retail sales fell to a 40-month low in ...

Despite rising fuel costs, prices of package tours to Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea this summer are expected to remain largely unchanged from last year, the Travel Quality Assurance ...

Iran weighs a new US proposal as Trump warns peace talks with Tehran are near breaking point, amid Hormuz tensions, food ...