U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, following a relatively weak week, amid worries about the debt-ridden euro area and the so-called sequester that would trigger automatic spending cuts for the United States starting from March.
Housing transactions in South Korea fell the most in at least six years as faltering economy reduced personal income, boosting expectations for further price declines in the property market.
In its first board meeting this year, the Australian Reserve Bank (RBA) has decided to keep interest rates on hold as Australia's sunny economic conditions continued to surprise analysts.
The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 7.9 percent in January from 7.8 percent in December 2012, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.
The Chinese mainland's securities regulatory body announced on Tuesday that it will further expand the opening of its capital market toward Taiwan.
Apple lost its title as the world's most valuable publicly listed company to oil giant Exxon Mobil after remaining on the throne since August 2011.
South Korea's economic growth accelerated in the fourth quarter from three months earlier, after rising 0.1 percent in the prior three months, as stronger won helped boost private consumption.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Wednesday that the world economy stands poised for a gradual upturn in 2013 with output rising by 3.5 percent. The estimate marks a modest uptick from 3.2 percent in 2012, but was slightly lower than the IMF's last projection.
The global economy is poised for a gradual upturn in 2013 as the constraints on growth gradually ease, but policy complacency should be guarded against as risks remain, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its updated World Economic Outlook (WEO) on Wednesday.
Syrians are closely watching consumer prices after the government decided to raise diesel prices, a move that could potentially have an impact on more than 300 consumer items.
China's industrial production growth slowed in 2012 from a year earlier to 10 percent year on year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Friday.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China dropped in December for a seventh consecutive month amid the country's economic slowdown.
In a new sign that growth in the world's second largest economy is slowing...China's foreign trade missed the government's 10-percent annual target for 2012, rising only 6.2 percent, from 2011.
As much as 50 percent of all food produced around the world ends up as waste, a new report said on Thursday.
Singaporeans and permanent residents here seem to be more tolerant of gays and lesbians, according to a study by the city-state's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) released on Wednesday.
Increasing food prices are driving China's inflation higher, a trend seen to limit authorities' space to soften their monetary stance in the coming year.
China's IPOs slumped in 2012, with newly listed A-share companies and fundraising at a three-year low...But where the number of new listed companies fell - the business of selling shares and rights in existing companies - boomed.
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