Cfr.org16d
The Return of the East Asian Savings Glut
The combined savings of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the two city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore is about 40 percent of their collective GDP, a thirty-five-year high. No other region of the ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore16d
Vietnam's 2024 GDP growth accelerates driven by strong exports
GDP grew 7.55 per cent in the fourth quarter, the fastest quarterly growth in more than two years, the General Statistics Office said in a report. The Southeast Asian country, a regional ...
The Edge Singapore21d
OCBC and Oxford Economics lower 2025 GDP forecast on high base; some analysts expect monetary easing to happen this year
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation’s (OCBC) Selena Ling has lowered her growth forecast for Singapore’s GDP in 2025 to 2.2% y-o-y from 2.7% y-o-y due to the high base from Singapore’s performance in ...
The Straits Times21d
China’s 2024 GDP growth set to hit target of around 5%: Xi Jinping
BEIJING – China’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to expand around 5 per cent for the full year of 2024, said President Xi Jinping, signalling that the world’s second-largest ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore21d
Singapore's economy grew 4.3% in Q4 of 2024: MTI advance estimates
In the third quarter, the economy grew 5.4 per cent. For the full year, however, GDP growth stood at 4 per cent for 2024, faster than the 1.1 per cent reported in 2023. Economic growth in 2024 ...
Wall Street Journal22d
China’s Economy Is Burdened by Years of Excess. Here’s How Bad It Really Is.
China’s go-go days are behind it as the world’s second-largest economy struggles with the bursting of the biggest real-estate bubble ever. Now, China’s goal of overtaking the U.S. as the ...
scmp.com22d
Xi urges confidence in China’s economy as GDP growth on track to hit target of around 5%
With the growth rate on track to meet the government target, Xi said China’s gross domestic product (GDP) was set to surpass 130 trillion yuan (US$17.8 trillion) this year. This is an increase ...
Bloomberg L.P.23d
Xi Says China’s 2024 GDP Growth Set to Hit Target of Around 5%
Xi Says China’s 2024 GDP Growth Set to Hit Target of Around 5% Top leader says economy, employment and prices overall stable No year-end RRR cut as PBOC previously floated as possible ...
Reuters23d
China's Xi expects 2024 GDP growth of around 5%, state media says
Pete Hegseth's former sister-in-law said in an affidavit to senators on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon abused his second ex-wife to the point where she once hid in ...
Nigerian Tribune24d
Despite N11trn contribution to GDP, high building materials costs heighten housing shortage in 2024
DESPITE the combined real estate and construction sectors contributing an impressive N11 trillion to the country’s GDP, high costs of building materials have heightened homelessness among ...
VOV Online24d
Vietnam's GDP predicted to surpass Singapore's in 2029
With an average annual growth rate of 5.8% over the next five years, Vietnam's GDP is expected to surpass Singapore's, reaching US$676 billion by 2029. By 2039, Vietnam’s GDP could rise to US$1.41 ...