China's economy outpaced market estimates in the first quarter of 2014, but economists cautioned that downward pressure remains, and targeted measures are needed to ensure growth falls within a proper range.
New Zealand's gross domestic product increased by 2.7 percent last year, with growth widespread throughout the economy, Finance Minister Bill English announced Thursday.
New Zealand's terms of trade in goods in the December 2013 quarter were at a four-decade high for the second quarter running, thanks to the continuing boom in dairy exports, the government statistics agency said Monday.
Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, is planning a stock market listing in New York "relatively soon", a source told Xinhua on Tuesday.
U.S. house prices edged up 1.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013 on a seasonally-adjusted basis, marking the 10th consecutive quarterly increases, official data showed on Tuesday.
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) said on Monday that small businesses in the country are faced with difficult trading conditions.
Gross domestic product in the eurozone grew 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013, European Union (EU) statistics office Eurostat said Friday.
Macao's Tourist Price Index (TPI) for the fourth quarter of 2013 rose by 6.33 percent over the same period of the previous year to 142.26, according to figures released Wednesday by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
China's latest economic figures, especially the purchasing managers' index (PMI) in both factory activity and the services sector, indicated sagging momentum in December, with the country's growth softening slightly last quarter, economists said.
The dairy industry drove the New Zealand economy to its largest quarterly growth in almost four years in the quarter to the end of September, the government statistics agency said Thursday.
The Singapore government raised its growth forecast for the economy to between 3.5 percent and 4 percent on Thursday.
The Hong Kong economy expanded moderately further in the third quarter of 2013, by 2.9 percent in real terms over a year earlier, slightly slower than the 3.2 percent growth in the second quarter, the local government announced Friday.
Apple Inc. Monday announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2013 fiscal year after the market closed, which showed the company's revenue and profit beat expectations, but gross margin guidance for the next quarter fell short of market estimates.
South Korea's gross domestic product growth stayed at the two-year high level in the third quarter due to a turnaround in facility investment and rising private consumption, central bank data showed Friday.
Australia's Consumer Price Index ( CPI) rose 1.2 percent in the September quarter, compared with a rise of 0.4 percent in the June quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported Wednesday.
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of smartphones, memory chips and flat screen TVs, said Friday that its third-quarter operating profit hit the new quarterly record high due to robust sales of its Galaxy smartphones, that offset weak performance in the consumer electronics business.
With the slowest pace of growth in four years in the first quarter of this fiscal year, India is facing a deepening slowdown amid widespread pessimism brought by a falling rupee and slumping stock market, said local newspaper Economic Times on Saturday.
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