Economy

Enterprise Singapore, a government agency that champions enterprise development, announced on Monday Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) grew 15.5 percent year on year in May. Singapore saw the NODX decline by a revised 3.1...

German manufacturing industry continued a hiring spree in April, figures by the Federal Statistical Office showed on Friday. According to a Wiesbaden-based government agency, 5.6 million people were employed by German manufacturing firms...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he was pushing ahead with hefty tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports on Friday, and the smoldering trade war between the world’s two largest economies showed signs...

Qatar has weathered the economic impacts of a stifling Saudi-led blockade, maintaining healthy growth, but some sectors continue to pay the price a year after the crisis erupted. On June 5, 2017, Saudi...

Global oil prices fell on Friday after top producer Saudi Arabia signaled a likely boost in supply as soon as the third quarter, and world stock markets were mixed over the sudden US...

Argentina’s central bank has raised interest rates for the third time in eight days as the country’s currency, the peso, continues to fall sharply. On Friday, the bank hiked rates to 40% from...

Hasina Begum wakes up at 5 am to finish the decoration on textile and garment products. She needs to hand them over to the contractor by 11 am – they’re part of an...

The Bank of Japan’s massive monetary easing programme is a cornerstone of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” campaign to kickstart the economy after years of torpid growth. Japan’s central bank on Friday said...

The study predicts a dramatic acceleration in the pace of digital transformation across Asia’s economies. In 2017, about 6% of the region’s GDP was derived from digital products and services created directly through...

It was the first time employment has contracted in the fast-growing industry since the non-profit research firm The Solar Foundation began tracking solar jobs in 2010. The U.S. solar industry lost nearly 10,000...