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New York City passes $88 billion budget

New York City passes $88 billion budget

-- 2020-07-01 16:15:52

The New York City Council voted to pass the 2021 budget on Tuesday night with cuts to police funding after weeks of fraught negotiations with Mayor Bill de Blasio, but some lawmakers complained it fel...

Indonesia's annual inflation falls to lowest in 20 years in June

Indonesia's annual inflation falls to lowest in 20 years in June

-- 2020-07-01 13:25:50

The consumer price index in June logged the lowest level since May 2000 as the novel coronavirus pandemic stretched deep the country's economy and depressed demands. The National Agency of Statistics...

India records quarterly current account surplus for first time in 13 years

India records quarterly current account surplus for first time in 13 years

REUTERS 2020-07-01 11:19:46

India’s current account turned positive in the last quarter of the 2019/20 fiscal year as a result of a lower trade deficit and a sharp rise in net invisible receipts, the Reserve Bank of India...

Greek economy to fall by 5.8pc in 2020: BoG

Greek economy to fall by 5.8pc in 2020: BoG

-- 2020-06-30 16:22:24

The Bank of Greece (BoG) expects the country's economy to shrink by 5.8 per cent this year in its baseline scenario, but risks related to the coronavirus pandemic could bring the economic contraction...

UK economy shows biggest drop in 40 years in early 2020

UK economy shows biggest drop in 40 years in early 2020

Reuters 2020-06-30 13:51:07

Britain’s economy shrank by the most since 1979 in early 2020 as households slashed their spending, according to official data that included the first few days of the coronavirus lockdown. Gros...

Vietnam's H1 GDP growth lowest in 10 years

Vietnam's H1 GDP growth lowest in 10 years

-- 2020-06-29 16:18:02

Vietnam's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.81 per cent in the first half of this year, the lowest six-month growth rate in the 2011-2020 period, the General Statistics Office said on Monday. Betwe...

Asia stocks retreat as virus threatens economic reopening

Asia stocks retreat as virus threatens economic reopening

REUTERS 2020-06-29 12:08:32

Asian share markets began the week with a cautious tone on Monday as the relentless spread of the coronavirus finally made investors question their optimism on the global economy, benefiting safe harb...

Australia's golden economy faces long road to virus recovery

Australia's golden economy faces long road to virus recovery

REUTERS 2020-06-29 10:30:18

Coronavirus has done to Australia what even the global financial crisis couldn’t: abruptly end a record growth run and help trigger a deep recession from which the country will take time to reco...

IMF says virus crisis could ultimately test $1.0t war chest

IMF says virus crisis could ultimately test $1.0t war chest

REUTERS 2020-06-27 14:08:18

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday that the global economic crisis spurred by the coronavirus could ultimately test the Fund’s $1.0 trillion in tot...

Malaysian PM calls for ASEAN "travel bubbles" to boost economy

Malaysian PM calls for ASEAN "travel bubbles" to boost economy

-- 2020-06-27 12:54:34

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has called on fellow countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for "travel bubbles" to counter the economic slump caused by Covid-19. I...

Disconnect between financial markets, real economy could pose threat to recovery, warns IMF

Disconnect between financial markets, real economy could pose threat to recovery, warns IMF

-- 2020-06-26 10:38:38

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Thursday that the ongoing disconnect between financial markets and the real economy is a "vulnerability," which could pose a threat to the recovery should...

Canada's natural resources real GDP declines in first quarter

Canada's natural resources real GDP declines in first quarter

-- 2020-06-25 13:51:04

Real gross domestic product (GDP) of Canada's natural resources sector was down 0.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, the third consecutive quarterly decline, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. T...

South Africa's debt grows into hippo 'eating our children's inheritance'

South Africa's debt grows into hippo 'eating our children's inheritance'

REUTERS 2020-06-25 10:52:49

South Africa’s budget deficit will be the highest in the post-apartheid era, and the finance minister warned in his emergency budget speech on Wednesday that debt had become a hippo eating their...

India to invest $121.27m more for Shwe oil and gas project in Myanmar

India to invest $121.27m more for Shwe oil and gas project in Myanmar

-- 2020-06-25 10:08:16

The Indian government has approved a proposal for an additional 121.27 million US dollar investment to be made by ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) in the development of an oil and gas project in Myanmar. The de...

ADB retains top position in aid transparency index

ADB retains top position in aid transparency index

-- 2020-06-24 22:59:59

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) retained its first place ranking in the 2020 Aid Transparency Index (ATI), an independent measurement of aid transparency released on Wednesday at the Brookings Instit...

Global economy could shrink 4.9pc this year: IMF

Global economy could shrink 4.9pc this year: IMF

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-06-24 21:08:41

The International Monetary Fund has projected that global economy could shrink 4.9 per cent in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, 1.9 percentage points below than its previous forecast. IMF’s World...

Putin proposes differentiated income tax rate

Putin proposes differentiated income tax rate

-- 2020-06-24 14:25:34

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed canceling the current flat income tax rate and introducing differentiated tax for richer people with the proceeds to be channeled for the treatment of chi...

Asia Pacific consumers shift rapidly to digital commerce and show no signs of turning back

Asia Pacific consumers shift rapidly to digital commerce and show no signs of turning back

FE Online Desk 2020-06-23 16:47:45

  Consumers in Asia Pacific are rapidly going digital with purchases of everything from groceries to movies in a shift that looks set to become a permanent habit after the pandemic passes, Maste...

US economy to grow more slowly than hoped: Fed official

US economy to grow more slowly than hoped: Fed official

-- 2020-06-23 14:30:12

The US economy is expected to grow more slowly than people had hoped months ago as the country cannot stop the community spread of Covid-19, a senior US Federal Reserve official said on Monday. "Some...

Tourism contributes 12.7pc to Philippine GDP in 2019

Tourism contributes 12.7pc to Philippine GDP in 2019

-- 2020-06-22 16:07:15

The contribution of the tourism industry to the Philippine economy increased to 12.7 per cent in 2019 from 12.3 per cent in 2018, the country's Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said on Mond...

Global stocks try to shake off second wave virus fears

Global stocks try to shake off second wave virus fears

REUTERS 2020-06-22 13:20:49

US stock futures recouped losses on Monday but Asian stocks wobbled as investors tried to shake off worries that rising coronavirus cases in the United States could scupper a quick economic rebound....

Covid-19 poses most uncertain health and economic threat: ICCB

Covid-19 poses most uncertain health and economic threat: ICCB

FE Online Desk 2020-06-21 15:04:22

The world is facing a severe and acute public health emergency and economic threat due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which originated in Wuhan Province of China in last December. The World Health Organiza...

IMF likely to deploy emergency financing for 70 countries

IMF likely to deploy emergency financing for 70 countries

-- 2020-06-20 16:16:29

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it is expected to deploy emergency financing for 70 countries by Friday as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ripple across the globe. IMF spokesperson...

US unemployment rate to remain in double digits by end of year

US unemployment rate to remain in double digits by end of year

-- 2020-06-20 14:16:22

The US unemployment rate will remain in double digits by the end of this year as efforts to contain Covid-19 so far have not been particularly successful in the country, a senior US Federal Reserve...

Global stocks wobble as investors assess risks of second wave

Global stocks wobble as investors assess risks of second wave

REUTERS 2020-06-19 13:17:49

Asian shares and US stock futures teetered in choppy trade on Friday as lingering concerns about a fresh spike in coronavirus cases offset growing hopes for a quick economic recovery. MSCI’s br...

UN chief calls for protection of jobs amid pandemic

UN chief calls for protection of jobs amid pandemic

-- 2020-06-19 12:45:33

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the protection of jobs amid Covid-19. The pandemic has turned the world of work upside down. Every worker, every business, and ev...

ADB projects 0.1pc GDP growth for Asia in 2020

ADB projects 0.1pc GDP growth for Asia in 2020

-- 2020-06-18 11:53:03

Developing Asia will barely grow in 2020 as containment measures to address the Covid-19 pandemic hamper economic activity and weaken external demand, according to an updated Asian Development Bank (A...

British inflation hits four-year low

British inflation hits four-year low

-- 2020-06-17 16:20:59

British inflation fell to its lowest since June 2016 last month as the coronavirus pandemic sucked demand from the global economy and oil prices tumbled. Consumer price inflation slowed to 0.5 per ce...

Global FDI to contract by 40pc this year: UNCTAD

Global FDI to contract by 40pc this year: UNCTAD

-- 2020-06-16 16:25:01

Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are forecast to decrease by up to 40 per cent in 2020, and further by 5 to 10 per cent in 2021, before recovering in 2022, said a United Nations report Tue...

South Korea's foreign currency deposit keeps rising for three months

South Korea's foreign currency deposit keeps rising for three months

-- 2020-06-16 13:59:03

South Korea's foreign currency deposit kept rising for three straight months as companies secured the US dollar liquidity on worry about an economic fallout from the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, c...