The slower-than-expected economic growth in 2024 supports the continued monetary easing by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, ...

The recent shift in monetary policy and the Trump administration’s economic agenda have raised concerns about inflationary ...

Philippine stocks fell below the 6,200 level Monday as investors braced for key economic reports slated for release later ...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced plans to include illicit activities like pr0stitution and drug sales in Nigeria's GDP calculation Political analyst Hamma Hayatu condemned the move as ...

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China's GDP grew 5 percent year-on-year to 134.9 trillion yuan ($18.41 trillion) in 2024, breaking the 130-trillion-yuan mark for the first time, according to data released by the National Bureau ...

Yields typically move inversely to prices ... of 5% and picking up sharply from the 4.6% seen in the prior quarter. GDP expanded by 1.6% quarter-on-quarter, in line with expectations.

Nigeria's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is planning to rebase the country's GDP and Consumer Price Index (CPI). This process involves updating the base year used for calculating economic ...

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected China's full-year GDP growth to come in at 4.9%, just shy of the official target of around 5% — which analysts had said was ambitious. Helen Qiao ...

confidence was effectively bolstered and the economy recovered remarkably,” the NBS said in its 2024 GDP data release on Friday. The annual figure, which slightly exceeded economists ...

Yet progress ebbed after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. Global economic integration faltered: as a share of GDP, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into developing economies are at about ...