Economic Indicators News

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. existing home sales plunged to a 12-year low in December, but declining mortgage rates raised cautious hope that the embattled...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's exports for the first 20 days of January fell 2.7% from a year earlier, but the pace of drop was slower than that recorded in December, customs...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's economy is slowing, Bank of Mexico deputy governor Jonathan Heath said on Friday after official data showed economic activity shrank in November...

(Bloomberg) -- It’s still a good time for Americans to switch jobs.  Workers who jumped ship to a new employer late last year got bigger salary bumps than they did in early 2022,...

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese supermarket owner Hiromichi Akiba has built his bustling business through close ties with his neighbourhood - the reason, he says, he...

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Global leaders and business executives departed a freezing World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting on Friday after a frank exchange of views over how the...

By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) -German producer prices rose in December at a slower rate than the previous month as inflation eases in Europe's largest economy due in part to...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Retail sales slumped again in the U.K. in December, while consumer confidence fell to a new low as Britons counted the cost of an expensive...

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Masami Fujino got his first raise in 20 years recently, but it's still not enough to let the Tokyo day labourer treat himself to plain McDonald's...

By Scott Kanowsky  Investing.com -- Germany's producer price index fell for the third straight month in December, although that decline was less than expected as a recent decrease...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's overall exports to North Korea more than tripled in 2022 from a year earlier as freight train operations between the two countries resumed following a...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's coal imports from Russia dropped in December as logistics issues and inclement winter in Russia curbed shipments and Chinese demand weakened amid...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's manufacturing sector contracted for the third consecutive month in December, while the negative mindset of manufacturers has picked up pace....

By Ambar Warrick Investing.com -- Japan’s core consumer price index rose as expected to a 41-year high in December, data showed on Friday, signaling more pressure on the...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's down-at-the-heel bolivar currency fell to 20 per dollar, according to official data for Wednesday, complicating attempts by the government of...

(Reuters) - New York state will forgive $672 million worth of unpaid gas and electric utility bills from the pandemic era for about half a million customers, in what the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. single-family homebuilding rebounded in December, but the increase was likely temporary as permits for future construction continued to decline amid...

By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com -- A key gauge of U.S. manufacturing activity improved in January, but another reading implying a fall in activity did little to calm fears of a...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's export growth slowed sharply in December as China-bound shipments fell for the first time in seven months, stoking fears of further...

By John Irish and Lananh Nguyen DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - As Ukraine attempts to secure more modern arms from its allies, it has stepped up a parallel effort to lock in...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Turnover in accommodation and food services in Germany rose strongly in 2022 compared with 2021 despite high inflation, the federal statistics office said on...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's consumer spending over the Lunar New Year period could rise 13.6% to 45 billion baht ($1.36 billion), a three-year high, as the economy recovers and...

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia employment unexpectedly dipped in December following an outsized gain the month before in a sign the red-hot labour market might be...

By Ambar Warrick Investing.com -- Australia’s job market unexpectedly shrank in December as the participation rate fell from record highs, although employment conditions...

By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices registered the most widespread falls in 13 years last month as buyer demand and sales activity weakened more sharply than...

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Treasuries held by foreigners rose in November for the first time in three months, data from the U.S. Treasury department...

By Liz Moyer Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve in its periodic beige book on Wednesday said economic activity hasn't changed much since its last report in November, with its...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales fell by the most in a year in December, pulled down by declines in purchases of motor vehicles and a range of other...

(Reuters) - There were some encouraging signs U.S. inflation pressures and labor shortages were easing, a Federal Reserve report showed on Wednesday, but economic activity was...

Jan 18 (Reuters) - Producer prices in Canada fell by 1.1% in December from November on lower prices for refined petroleum energy products, as well as softwood lumber, Statistics...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. business inventories increased in November as higher interest rates depressed sales, boosting the inventory-to-sales ratio to the highest level in...

By Diana Mandia and Dina Kartit (Reuters) - The number of nights spent in tourist accommodation in the European Union in 2022 approached pre-pandemic levels, the bloc's statistics...

By Dan Burns (Reuters) - Confidence among U.S. single-family homebuilders improved for the first time in more than a year in January, potentially signaling the housing slump may...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Production at U.S. factories fell more than expected in December and output in the prior month was weaker than previously thought, indicating that...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. producer prices fell more than expected in December as the costs of energy products and food declined, offering more evidence that inflation was...