New Zealand could see an annual economic growth of 3 percent according to the results of a quarterly business confidence survey, a leading economic think- tank said Tuesday.
Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock's power and added 3-D premium concerted to help "Gravity" shot to the top of North America box office chart, while the weekend's another wide release "Runner, Runner" finished in the third place with a much smaller take.
The Spanish and Portuguese economies are currently in a key moment at the end of cycle towards their reactivation and thence sustained economic growth.
The Philippine economy will continue to grow faster toward the end of the year despite a slight rise in inflation in September and the continued threats to the global economy, particularly that of the United States, the country's leading trading partner.
While some people complain of tourist overcrowding having turned China's seven-day Golden Week into a "golden mess," economists have interpreted the phenomenon in a more positive way.
China needs to quicken structural economic reforms as the growth rate in the country in 2013 and 2014 will fall below earlier projections, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report released here in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
South Korea's industrial output grew at a faster pace compared with the prior month due to solid exports, especially in the tech and auto sectors, a government report showed Monday.
A leading Finnish research institute lowered the nation's economic growth forecast on Wednesday, and attributed it to the decline of Nokia, which sold it's mobile businesses to Microsoft earlier this month.
The United States is on the way to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, a U.S. government report said Thursday.
Hong Kong's overall consumer prices rose 4.5 percent in August over a year earlier, narrowing from an increase of 6.9 percent in July, the Census and Statistics Department announced Monday.
The latest exit poll results showed Sunday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) could have an absolute majority to govern without a coalition partner.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), emerged as the biggest winner in Sunday's federal election, official provisional results showed early Monday.
"Prisoners" dominated the weekend North America box office with 21.4 million U.S. dollars worth of ticket sales, opening on the high end of pre-release anticipations.
The Japanese government said Thursday that the country's good trade deficit stood at 960.3 billion yen (about 9.8 billion U.S. dollars) in August, mainly due to the yen's slide and growing demand for energy.
The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday surprised the markets by delaying the long-debated tapering of its current monthly 85-billion-dollar bond buying program, citing concerns over tighter financial conditions and fiscal headwinds, leaving the actual wind-down of the monetary stimulus down the road.
The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it would keep its monthly pace of bond purchases unchanged for now to stimulate the economy.
Apple-related Chinese shares fell Tuesday after reports of shrinking reservations and reduced subsidy for its latest products in China hit Apple Inc.'s shares yesterday.
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