Singapore's population rose by about 1.1% each year over the past decade, the slowest rate since independence in 1965, the latest census showed on Wednesday, with locals having fewer children and immigration policies tightening.

Singapore records slowest decade of population growth since independence

China's population growth in the decade to 2020 slumped to the least in official records dating back to the 1950s, fuelling pressure on Beijing to ramp up incentives to couples to have more children and avert an irreversible decline.

China 2020 census shows population growth slipped to lowest since 1950s

The eurozone economy fell into a second recession in less than a year in the first quarter, data showed on Friday, as slow vaccinations and pandemic lockdowns stopped a rebound.

Eurozone enters double-dip recession in first quarter

Growth in China's services sector slowed for a second straight month in January, a traditionally busy sales season, hitting a three-month low as companies cut prices and new orders dipped, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday.

China's services sector growth hits three-month low in January

China's potential economic growth will be below 6 per cent over the next five years, an adviser to China's central bank said on Saturday. The economy could grow between 5 per cent and 6 per cent from 2020 to 2025, Liu Shijin, a policy adviser to the People's Bank of China, said at a conference in Beijing, according to an article he posted on social media.

China's potential growth below 6% over next five years: Central bank adviser

Unfavourable trends in tax revenue collections suggest that a fiscal slippage in the current financial year 2019-20 (FY20) appears likely, according to investment information firm ICRA.

India: Fiscal slippage likely in 2020 as tax revenue growth stumbles

Britain's economy grew at the slowest annual rate in nearly a decade in the three months to the end of September, as a global slowdown and Brexit worries hit business investment and manufacturing.

United Kingdom economy grows at slowest annual rate since 2010 in Q3

WeWork owner The We Company disclosed data on Friday that showed expansion of its office-sharing business was almost doubling in size from a large pipeline of leases even as the money-losing company plans to slash costs and reduce its headcount.

WeWork data shows growth still doubling

India's biggest airline IndiGo reported its biggest-ever quarterly loss on higher maintenance costs and cut capacity expansion targets, at a time when the industry is grappling with slowing passenger growth in a sluggish economy.

IndiGo reports biggest quarterly loss, cuts expansion targets

H&M, the world's second-biggest fashion retailer, reported on Thursday its first quarterly rise in pretax profit in over two years and said efforts to meet rapid changes in its industry were on track.

H&M posts first quarterly profit rise in over two years

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday announced that it would extend a bailout package worth $6 billion to help Pakistan restore an inclusive and sustainable growth of its plunging economy.

International Monetary Fund to extend $6 billion bailout package to restore Pakistan's plunging economy

Asian shares turned lower on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates as expected but signalled a higher bar to further policy easings. Treasury yields rose broadly and the curve flattened as Fed Chairman Jerome Powell took a cautious approach to any further reductions in borrowing costs, while division among central bankers has increased uncertainty over how much further rates might fall.

Asian shares turn lower on guarded Fed, yen rises after BOJ

China's new home prices grew at their weakest pace in nearly a year in August as a cooling economy and existing curbs on speculative buying put a dent on overall demand.

China's home price growth at weakest in nearly a year, developers seen cutting prices

Argentina's inflation rate is expected at 53 per cent in December 2019, but will fall back to 34 per cent the following year, according to projections in the forthcoming 2020 budget, treasury officials said on Wednesday.

Argentina inflation expected at 53 per cent in December 2019: treasury officials

Oil prices rose on Wednesday after a reported sharp drop in US crude stocks and OPEC member Iraq said the producer group would discuss deepening output cuts amid ongoing demand concerns.

International oil prices gain after fall in US stocks

Slowdown hits the world's largest economy. U.S GDP Growth falls to 2% Estimated was 2.1%

WION Wallet: U.S GDP Growth falls to 2% Estimated was 2.1%

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said on Wednesday that an interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which is almost certain in the second bi-monthly monetary policy statement for 2019-20, is unlikely to stimulate demand in the near-term due to the absence of quick resonance in the financial market.

Reserve Bank of India's interest rate cut in monetary policy unlikely to stimulate growth: Report

With the spectre of slowdown haunting the economy and rising unemployment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday constituted two new Cabinet committees under his chairmanship to spur economic growth, investment and employment.

Two new cabinet committees formed to spur growth, employment

The growth of eight core sectors improved marginally to 4.7 per cent in March 2019 against 4.5 per cent in the same month last year. For the full 2018-19 fiscal, the expansion rate of eight infrastructure sectors - coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel, cement and electricity - remained flat at 4.

Infrastructure sector growth improves to 4.7% in March

India's infrastructure output grew at 2.1 percent in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Monday. During April-February, the output growth rate came in at 4.

India's February infrastructure output grows 2.1 per cent 

Britain's economy grew at the slowest pace in six years in 2018 with near-flat output in the final quarter, data showed Monday, as Brexit uncertainty and weaker global growth bites.

Brexit uncertainty: UK economy posts slowest growth in six years

China's economy grew at its slowest pace in almost three decades in 2018, losing more steam in the last quarter as it battles to quell massive debt and a US trade war, official data showed Monday.

China economy grew at slowest pace in 28 years in 2018

China's population grew at a slower rate last year despite the abolition of the one-child policy, official data showed Monday, raising fears an ageing society will pile further pressure on an already slowing economy.

Despite two-child policy, population growth slows in China

The Reserve Bank of India Wednesday left the repo rate unchanged while maintaining the stance of 'calibrated tightening' of policy. The key rate remains unchanged at 6.

RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 6.5%, retains GDP growth projection at 7.4%

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