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SINGAPORE, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Singapore's economy grew 5.7% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, lifting full-year GDP growth to the strongest since 2021, underpinned by robust gains for the ...

US economy grew 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025, a much stronger pace than analysts expected and faster than the 3.8% expansion in the second quarter. The growth rate, reported by the Commerce ...

The central government announced that India has successfully overtaken Japan to become the world's fourth-largest economy with a size of $4.18 trillion, according to an official press release issued ...

BEIJING -- China's 2024 gross domestic product (GDP) was revised to 134.8066 trillion yuan ($19.16 trillion), down 101.8 billion yuan from the preliminary figure, the National Bureau of Statistics ...

Official confirmation however depends on data due in 2026 when final annual gross domestic product figures are released, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggesting India will cross over ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Looking at the government’s own report cards, how did the US fare under the first year of Trumponomics 2.0? The US economy is thriving, according to Donald Trump: jobs are surging, prices are falling, ...

The U.S. economy's resilience in 2025 is expected to carry over when the calendar turns to 2026, with growth expected to accelerate as tax cuts and more favorable financial conditions take hold and ...

Note: Real effective exchange rates are assumed to remain constant at the levels prevailing during April 26–May 24, 2019. Economies are listed on the basis of economic size. The aggregated quarterly ...

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...

Inflation is predicted to cool but uncertainty over AI-driven growth and trade policy poses risks in the year ahead The global economy proved to be more resilient in 2025 than had been feared, despite ...