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We have identified a data error within the public housing new work sector from January 2022. While this error increases the level of construction output by ...

New data revises GDP lower, flags weaker consumption and corporate capex while raising questions over sharp rise in household savings and informal sector strength ...

April 9 (UPI) --The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis revised the rate of economic growth for the fourth quarter of 2025 down Thursday due largely to slower-than-expected investment. The annual rate of ...

Richard Heys is deputy chief economist in the Office for National Statistics, Newport, UK. For decades, economists have known that using gross domestic product (GDP) alone to guide policy is ...

China's central bank kept its benchmark lending rates unchanged on Tuesday. The People's Bank of China held its 1-year and 5-year loan prime rates at 3% and 3.5%, respectively. That marked the tenth ...

After humming along at a robust pace for much of 2025, the economy hit a wall in the fourth quarter, with a six-week government shutdown and slowdown in consumer spending stunting growth at the end of ...

Taylor Tompkins has worked for more than a decade as a journalist covering business, finance, and the economy. She has logged thousands of hours interviewing experts, analyzing data, and writing ...

The economy grew at a 1.4% seasonally adjusted annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2025, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported in an estimate of gross domestic product, far below the forecast ...

Sources: Bloomberg; CEIC Data Company Limited; Wind; IMF International Financial Statistics database; and IMF staff estimates and projections. 1/ 2024 GDP will be revised to match official revisions, ...

Feb. 16 (UPI) --Japan's economy grew ever so slightly during the fourth quarter of 2025, government data showed Monday, narrowly avoiding a second straight quarter of contraction that would have met ...

China on Monday announced that it exactly hit the 2025 real GDP growth target of five percent. Even if you believe it, and you shouldn’t, the rest of what was announced is still disturbing for the ...