Topic: East Asia
India's slowing economic growth is a "cause for worry", research group Moody's Analytics said Monday, highlighting the failure of aggressive interest rate hikes to curb near double-digit inflation.India's growth has weakened under the brunt of 12 interest rate increases since March 2010 ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - China has the scope to respond if global economic risks materialize, and the country's response could partially but not entirely offset the impact of a global crisis, the International Monetary Fund's Asia and Pacific director said on Thursday.Anoop Singh, ...
Europe's crisis appears to have drawn attention away from what's happening in ChinaBelow is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on October 6, 2011. The U.S. economy is definitely in recession and the recession will probably extend into next ...
Shares in Chinese banks surged Tuesday after a government investment arm bought stakes in the country's major lenders in a move analysts said was aimed at shoring up support for the flagging market.Central Huijin Investment, the domestic arm of China's $300 billion ...
(Reuters) - As housing bubbles go, China's looks relatively benign.Unlike in the United States, Chinese home buyers typically put down at least 40 percent of the purchase price. That means they don't have to worry about a modest decline wiping out all ...
(Reuters) - September factory activity in some of Asia's biggest economies slumped to levels last seen during the depths of the financial crisis as export demand dropped, reinforcing fears that fading U.S. and European growth will spare no one.Similar figures for Europe ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are worried U.S. earnings growth may finally fall back to earth as turmoil in Europe and signs of a less robust Chinese economy hurt foreign support.The euro zone's debt crisis and weakness in China have fueled investor ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's manufacturing sector contracted for a third consecutive month in September, suggesting that the world's second-largest economy is not immune to global headwinds, while factory inflation quickened.Growing signs of a slowdown in China have prompted concerns that the country ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Investors are entering the fourth quarter with a slightly raised exposure to shares and holding high reserves of cash that could quickly be used to fuel a stock rally, Reuters polls showed on Thursday.Surveys of 59 leading investment houses ...
(Reuters) - The global economy was supposed to be better by now.Just a few months ago, the prevailing wisdom was that growth was going through a "soft patch" caused by a combination of Japan's earthquake and unrest in the oil-producing Middle East. ...
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