Economic Indicators News

By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's exports are expected to have risen at a faster pace in April, extending gains for a seventh straight month on strong chip sales, a...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's trade-dependent economy likely grew faster in the first quarter, supported by a rebound in exports amid upbeat demand for the technology that powers...

By Liangping Gao and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -China's industrial profits fell in March and slowed gains for the quarter compared to the first two months, official data showed...

(Reuters) - The cost of car insurance in the UK rose 1% in the first quarter, a survey showed on Monday, indicating an easing in the rise of premium seen last year. The data from...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow between 2.5% and 3.5% for the first quarter, maintaining moderate growth for a fifth consecutive...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. monthly inflation rose moderately in March, but stubbornly higher costs for housing and utilities suggested the Federal Reserve could...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Labor Department on Friday corrected productivity data from 2019 through 2023 after a computation error in off-the-clock hours worked ratios biased...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's consumer prices rose slightly less than expected in the mid-April reading, data from statistics agency IBGE showed on Friday. Prices in Latin...

By Elena Fabrichnaya, Alexander Marrow and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -Inflation is set to ease more slowly than previously thought, Russia's central bank said on Friday...

Investing.com -- Overall U.S. inflation accelerated by more than anticipated on an annualized basis in March, while underlying price pressures remained stubbornly...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Euro zone consumers lowered their expectation for inflation over the next 12 months in March but continued to see price growth above the European Central...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's factory output likely staged a strong rebound in March from the previous month's decline, with retail sales probably holding firm on booming inbound...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's private home prices reversed a 10-month falling streak in March, climbing 1.1% from February, after the financial city lifted curbs to boost the...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Core inflation in Japan's capital slowed much more than expected in April and fell below the central bank's 2% target, data showed on Friday,...

Investing.com-- Consumer price index inflation in Tokyo grew substantially less than expected in April, sinking below the Bank of Japan’s annual target and somewhat complicating...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy grew at its slowest pace in nearly two years in the first quarter amid a surge in imports and small build-up of unsold...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. economic growth in the first quarter fell below the Federal Reserve's estimates of the economy's long-run potential for the first...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, pointing to still tight labor market conditions. Initial...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed more than expected in the first quarter, but a surprisingly hot quarterly Personal Consumption Expenditure inflation component...

LONDON (Reuters) - British retailers suffered their worst April for sales since 2020, when the country was in its first COVID-19 lockdown, although the timing of the Easter...

By Cynthia Kim and Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -The South Korean economy grew at the fastest pace in more than two years in the first quarter beating all estimates with a pick-up...

Investing.com-- Chinese deflation has remained in play even as recent gross domestic product data showed some improvement in economic growth. This trend raised the question of...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New orders for key U.S.-manufactured capital goods increased moderately in March and data for the prior month was revised lower,...

By Promit Mukherjee OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's retail sales contracted for the second consecutive month in February, missing expectations, data showed on Wednesday, led by a drop...

(Reuters) -Mexico's consumer prices unexpectedly rose in the first half of April, national statistics agency INEGI said on Wednesday, reinforcing bets that the country's central...

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -Optimism among British manufacturers rose to its highest since July 2021 this month, despite a drop in orders, the Confederation of British...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of new U.S. single-family homes rebounded in March from February's downwardly revised level, drawing support from a persistent...

Investing.com-- Australian consumer price index inflation grew more than expected in the first quarter of 2024, remaining above the Reserve Bank of Australia’s target range and...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's annual business-to-business service inflation accelerated for the second month to hit 2.3% in March, data showed on Wednesday, suggesting firms continued...

LONDON (Reuters) - British employers reached slightly lower pay settlements with staff in the three months to the end of March, although early figures for April suggest they...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican headline inflation likely ticked up in the first half of April as core inflation eased, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday, boosting expectations...

By Patrick Werr CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's economy will grow slower than previously expected this year after it signed an $8 billion financial support package with the IMF that...

(Reuters) - U.S. business activity cooled in April to a four-month low due to weaker demand, while rates of inflation eased slightly even as input prices rose sharply, suggesting...

By Anant Chandak BENGALURU (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's economy will grow at a slower pace this year than previously predicted as oil prices drop from recent peaks, according to a...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece's economy will grow by 2.1% this year under a baseline scenario, the country's influential think tank IOBE said on Tuesday, revising down its previous...