Economy Archive
WT24 Desk Financial leaders of seven leading world economies pledged stronger cooperation against cyber crime on Saturday and not to use foreign exchange to gain competitive advantage, but stuck to their cautious wording on trade, their final communique showed, Reuters …
WT24 Desk China’s growth took a step back in April after a surprisingly strong start to the year, as factory output to investment to retail sales all tapered off as authorities clamped down on debt risks in an effort to …
WT24 Desk Oil prices jumped 2 percent on Monday after the energy ministers of the world’s two biggest producers Saudi Arabia and Russia jointly said that a crude production cut would be extended from the middle of this year until …
British inflation hit its highest level since September 2013 last month, building on its sharp rise since the vote to leave the European Union and tightening the squeeze on living costs for households ahead of a national election on June …
WT24 Desk Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani leads a Forbes list of ‘Global Game Changers’ who are transforming their industries and changing the lives of billions of people around the globe. Forbes’ second annual Global Game Changers list includes 25 …
WT24 Desk May 18 British shoppers set aside their concerns about fast-rising inflation following last year’s Brexit vote and unexpectedly stepped up spending at the fastest rate in years, helped by fine weather, official data showed, Reuters reports. The figures …
WT24 Desk British factory orders are growing at the fastest since February 2015, and output in the past three months rose by the most since 2013, a monthly survey by the Confederation of British Industry showed on Friday, Reuters reports. …
WT24 Desk China’s economy will likely expand around 6.8 percent in the second quarter of 2017, the State Information Center said in an article published in the state-owned China Securities Journal on Saturday, Reuters reports. The State Information Center is …
WT24 Desk BEIJING – Slapping import bans on products like mangoes, coal and salmon has long been China’s way of punishing countries that refuse to toe its political line, AFP reports. But Beijing has shown that it can also hurt …
