China has the ability to and the confidence to keep growing at an appropriate range in 2019 notwithstanding the headwinds, said the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Friday while taking part in a discussion with some foreign experts working in China just ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year starting...

A debate over national security has been sparked in the Philippines about whether China could get control over a port near the disputed South China Sea after an incident of a major corporate bankruptcy.   Ways to take over control for a shipyard on a former U.S. naval base – which is known...

In what can be considered to be the latest signals of a slowdown of the global economy, over the last six months, there has been a plunge in the freight rates for dry-bulk and container ships which are the vehicles that carry most of the raw materials and finished goods of the world.   Since...

In modern global economy, the entire global economy slows down if China is unable to keep pace despite the level of stimulus injected into the US economy – which also stutters because of China slow down. .   This is the view of the International Monetary Fund which has presented an interim...

Investment Bank Julius Baer does not believe in the onset of a recession this year, but recommends investors to closely monitor the situation in China and the problems of the European Union. The current situation in the world indicates an increase in the risk of a slowdown in the global economy,...

A report by global consultancy firm PwC claims that by 2019, the Indian economy is most likely to become larger than that of United Kingdom and go up past it in the list of the world's largest economies. The climb of the Indian economy is likely to be of a permanent nature unlike those of UK and...

According to oil traders and the media, Venezuela would be forced to send more of its crude oil to refineries in China, India or other Asian countries because of the potential U.S. sanctions on the crude oil exports of the country which is expected to cut off the country’s access to the refiners in...

On Tuesday, the first significant decline in the indices of US stock exchanges was noted in the new year. Nervousness passed on to yesterday's trading in Asia and Europe. Analysts suggest that investors are still disturbed by the slowdown in the global economy and the trade war between China and...

The fight against poverty globally is being undermined by the growing gap between rich and poor and it is also damaging national economies and triggering public anger across the world, concluded the new global wealth and inequality report from Oxfam titled “Public Good or Private Wealth”.  ...