Gross Domestic Product

The People's Republic of China has agreed to speed up measures aimed at increasing the level of loans offered to Sudan with priority given to projects linked to increasing production. This came following talks on developing economic and trade...

Small business executives looking for advice can sign up for a new program offered by the Manatee Chamber of Commerce starting today. The Chamber, joined by Florida's state Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, announced Friday morning a CEO...

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN) -- Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra warned yesterday that a lack of cooperation between the central bank and the Finance Ministry in reining in the strengthening baht could lead to a new financial crisis for Thailand....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar soared against major currencies on Friday on growing speculation that the Federal Reserve could soon begin to rein in its bond-buying program and after data showed U.S. consumer sentiment hit an almost six-year high in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Near-term U.S. deficits under President Barack Obama's 2014 budget plan would be higher than those forecast by the Congressional Budget Office this week but $1.1 trillion lower than what it estimates over the coming decade, CBO said...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rallied across the board on Friday, topping the 103-yen level as it hit a 4-1/2-year high against the Japanese currency, after data showing a robust rebound in U.S. consumer sentiment prompted investors to add to bullish...

(Anatole Kaletsky is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Anatole Kaletsky May 17 (Reuters) - The 3.5 percent gross domestic product growth announced by Tokyo on Wednesday suggests that Japan may be the fastest-growing economy in the...

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) -- After consolidating power during the recent mid-term elections, now is the time for Philippine President Benigno Aquino III to "sink his teeth" into substantial reforms to raise the productivity and efficiency...

PETALING JAYA (The Star/ANN) -- Despite the disappointing gross domestic product (GDP) year-on-year figures in the first quarter of 2013, Malaysia's economic growth is expected to improve in the second half of 2013. Analysts said the economy would...

In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American's right to free speech yet guarded “community standards” against “hard core...

PETALING JAYA (The Star/ANN) -- The external environment remains a major worry for Malaysia's economy, with sluggish US growth and the downturn in the eurozone slowing the pace of the country's economic expansion for the first quarter ended March 31....

(Repeats story from early in the day) By Steven C. Johnson NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. companies are hiring more workers and home prices, stock markets and energy production are climbing. But a sudden narrowing in the U.S. budget deficit could...