China's exports jumped in August but imports fell well short of expectations, data showed Tuesday, as the country's leaders struggle to boost consumption in the world's second-largest economy

Japan's economy grew at a slightly slower pace than initially reported in the second quarter, hurt by downward revisions in corporate and household spending that point to a bumpier second half for consumption and the central bank's rate-hike plans

The European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates again this week as inflation drifts back down towards its two-percent target, but policymakers will likely stay tight-lipped on future moves

Chinese consumer inflation ticked up slightly in August to a six-month high, official data showed Monday, but the reading missed expectations and did little to soothe worries about sluggish spending in the world's number two economy

Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 6.6 percent in August, its highest level since May 2017 -- excluding peak Covid-19 pandemic years -- the national statistical agency said Friday.

Britain needs an additional one trillion pounds ($1.3 trillion) in investment in the next decade to grow the economy, a report said on Friday

Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen told his US counterpart on Saturday that a modern China was an economic "opportunity" not a "threat" to the United States, the ministry said

China’s commerce ministry said on Friday Beijing had referred Canada to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over Ottawa’s new restrictions on imports of Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminium.

US hiring bounced back in August but missed expectations while the jobless rate crept down, government data showed Friday, paving the way towards central bank rate cuts in the coming weeks.

A sharper rise in capital investment is one of many improvements to Russia's 2024 economic outlook, new economy ministry forecasts showed, though stubbornly accelerating inflation may blunt the impact of faster rises in household incomes

China’s electric cars have zoomed into a new era of battery-powered driving. Now models such as BYD’s Seal and Great Wall Motor’s Funky Cat face an international backlash.

US tech titan Google employs "anti-competitive practices" with regards to online advertising, Britain's competition watchdog concluded Friday in provisional findings of a two-year long investigation

With inflation easing and the labor market cooling, it will likely be appropriate for the US Federal Reserve to make a series of interest rate cuts in the coming months, a senior official said Friday

US job openings dropped to a 3-1/2-year low in July, suggesting the labor market was losing steam, but the reduction on its own is probably not enough to warrant a half-percentage-point interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve this month

BYD is rolling out electric-vehicle charging stations and ramping up marketing and customer incentives in Japan, aiming to boost sales in a market that has become a stumbling block in the Chinese automaker's global expansion

Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday pledged over $50 billion in financing for Africa over the next three years, promising to deepen cooperation in infrastructure and trade with the continent as he addressed Beijing's biggest summit since the pandemic

The US market regulator charged and fined six major ratings agencies on Tuesday, including Moody's, S&P and Fitch, over what it called "significant recordkeeping failures."

“Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” Donald Trump tweeted in March of 2018 when he was US president, just months before kicking off in earnest one of the largest trade conflicts in modern history.

US manufacturing contracted at a moderate pace in August amid some improvement in employment, but a further decline in new orders and rise in inventory suggested factory activity could remain subdued for a while

Growth in China's services sector activity slowed in August despite the summer travel peak, prompting some firms to cut staff amid concerns about rising costs, a private-sector survey showed on Wednesday