Housing starts jumped 7.2% in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.487 million, exceeding the forecast of 1.340 million.

Concentrating on U.S. stocks via ETFs like VOO or SPY is not optimal for passive investing, despite strong historical ...

Independent economist Gerrard Minack recently posted the following chart illustrating how Australia’s rental inflation has tracked population growth: CBA’s latest housing market update notes that “the ...

According to the draft outline of China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), the country aims to lay a solid foundation for achieving its 2035 goal of doubling its 2020 per capita gross domestic product ...

India, long viewed as the archetype of a ‘high-fertility developing country’, has quietly become a relatively low-fertility society ...

Beijing has lowered its official 2026 growth target to between 4.5% and 5%— its least ambitious goal since 1991 and a steep comedown from the double-digit expansion of past years.

In December 2025, the FDA approved the first-ever GLP-1 pill for chronic weight management - Novo Nordisk’s oral formulation of Wegovy.

Going by recent report of the National Bureau of Statistics on contribution of the financial services sector to GDP, insurance sector's growth was rapid in 2025, yet its contributions to GDP remains ...

Medium-term plan emphasizes "Trusted Growth", "GEMBA DX", and portfolio restructuring, positioning India as one of the focus regions in OMRON's global transformation strategy. KYO ...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy unexpectedly lost jobs in February and the unemployment ...

Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro produced the following chart, showing how Australia’s labour productivity growth (i.e., GDP per hour worked) has ranked among the poorest in the advanced world over ...

Optimism around the global economy had been building. Consensus forecasts for global growth this year are up to trend-ish sorts of levels around 3%. A prolonged conflict would test this view. A new ...