Manufacturing activity across much of Asia shrank in February with China suffering a seventh straight month of decline, a blow to policymakers who only a day earlier resumed an easing cycle in a fresh effort to spur growth.
Industrial production in South Korea fell in the first month of this year, after rebounding in the previous month, boosting concerns about economic slump amid bleak domestic demand and sluggish exports, a government report showed Wednesday.
More than half of mainland Chinese cities saw home prices pick up in January amid the central government’s continuous policy support to the sector, with Shenzhen remaining the biggest gainer.
Italian industrial production fell to a four-month low in the first month of 2016, figures released Monday show, though analysts said will take time to determine how much of an impact that will have on the country's fragile hopes for an economic recovery.
South Korea posted trade surplus for 47 straight months due to a faster fall in imports than exports, customs data showed on Friday.
Job creation in South Korea slowed down in November, with jobless rate unchanged at 3.1 percent, a government report showed Wednesday.
The U.S. dollar-denominated deposits in South Korea reduced for the first time in five months, central bank data showed Friday.
Prices for imported products in South Korea declined for five straight months due to lower crude oil prices, central bank data showed Friday.
Japan's wholesale price declined in November for the eighth successive month, with prices for both exports and imports logging losses, the Bank of Japan said on Thursday.
Although China's consumer inflation picked up in November, flagging producer prices still put high deflationary pressure on the economy, new data showed Wednesday.
Education minister Eddie Ng Hak-kim, who was widely ridiculed for saying he could read 30 books a month and more than 10 books during a long-distance flight, went a step further on Thursday by claiming that devouring that much words was “a piece of cake”.
Recovery in China's real estate sector slowed in October as fewer cities reported price increases, mainly due to continuing oversupply of homes.
South Korea's headline inflation stayed at a zero percent for 11 straight months though the inflation advanced in October from the previous month, a government report showed Tuesday.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Wednesday opted to maintain its accommodative monetary policy and hold off on additional easing despite sluggish exports and falling commodity prices threatening to derail the bank's ambition 2 percent inflation target next year.
Confidence among South Korean businesses remained weak due to sluggish domestic demand that has rattled the economy in the past years, central bank data showed Wednesday.
Fifteen U.S. senators have announced their support for the Iran nuclear deal during the past two weeks, showing "some important momentum," the White House said Monday.
The Caixin flash China general manufacturing PMI plunged to a 77-month low of 47.1 in August from 47.8 in July, a preliminary Caixin survey showed on Friday.
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