Japan's GDP in the second quarter of 2021, according to a preliminary estimate, rose 1.3 percent on a year-over-year basis (if GDP had grown at the same rate for four consecutive quarters), the government data show. Analysts polled by DailyFX expected growth of only 0.7%. In quarterly terms,...

Cubans will be allowed to incorporate small and medium-sized businesses in the country in their thousands in the coming months as the island's Communist government undertook arguably its most popular and important economic reform since all companies in the country were nationalized in the late...

With Americans providing a deflated outlook for everything from personal finances to inflation and employment in a recent survey – which led economists to conclude that the consumer confidence in the country dropped significantly in early August to its lowest level in a decade which, according to...

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has completed an investigation into the deal between Facebook and animated image service Giphy and has come to the preliminary conclusion that their merger is detrimental to free competition of online social platforms in the country. On that basis, the...

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a "productivity boom" in the United States. Fewer workers are producing more output than they did before the pandemic. If this trend holds, the economy will see big changes in the next decade, according to The New York Times. Productivity in the United States has...

China's producer price growth accelerated to 9 percent year-on-year in July from 8.8 percent in June, according to Chinese government statistics. This growth is a consequence of the low-base effect caused by the pandemic: the inflation did not exceed 0.5% month-on-month. Its acceleration can mainly...

Companies should take action themselves to address climate change issues and should not depend on wide ranging agreements being reached between various governments when they get together at a global summit on climate change later this year, commented Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters in an event...

According to many analysts, the second half of the current year would get a powerful boost as indicated by a record hiring in the United States in nearly a year in July while wages also continued to rise in the month. Some economists believe growth in the current year would be the highest for the...

A slowdown was suggested in the industrial sector in China for the in the second half with an unexpected decline in export growth of the country for the month of July, because of outbreaks of Covid-19, and loss of growth in imports too, even as global commerce is growing with the easing of...