Canada and European Union on Friday signed a comprehensive economic pact with view to strengthening and deepening the strategic partnership between two sides.
U.S. consumer sentiment rose to a 14-month high in September as American’s outlook of the overall economy improved, a survey showed Friday.
Japan’s consumer prices increased 3. 1 percent from a year earlier in August for the 15th consecutive month of growth, partially pushed by April’s sales tax hike that has boosted inflation rate, said Japan’s Internal Affairs Ministry Friday.
The Spanish Ibex-35 stock market enjoyed a positive day’s trading on Wednesday ending the day on 10,856.90 points, 0.51 percent up from the close on Tuesday.
China’s manufacturing activities improved slightly in September, underscoring sustained output growth in the month, according to a flash reading of the HSBC survey released on Tuesday.
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday set preliminary subsidy rates on imports of 53-foot domestic dry containers from China, signaling that it may impose punitive duties on the products.
The Commerce Department on Tuesday announced final dumping margins on imports of monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer, from China and Indonesia, paving the way for the U.S. government to impose punitive duties on the products in the months ahead.
Taiwan’s economic authority said on Tuesday that the island’s business volume and industrial production index have both witnessed growth on a year-on-year basis.
World trade growth in 2014 is now predicted at 3.1 percent, down from the 4.7 percent forecast made in April, according to latest statistics released by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday.
China’s new accounting regime, shifting focus from GDP to a more balanced development outlook, signals the end of the era of “GDP supremacy”.