economy

GDP rose 7.8% on year in third quarter, up from 7.5% in the second quarter

Maria Luis Albuquerque says the economic plan is difficult but decisive.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan attends Longines Oldest Watch in India campaign.

BCC says manufacturing balance for domestic orders rose sharply to 31% in Q3.

Data firm Markit shows solid activity growth in UK manufacturing sector throughout third quarter.

Free trade zone spans 28.78 square kilometres in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai.

Top civil servant Henry Rotich says Kenya is still on track to issue its $2bn Eurobond.

YouGov and Cebr say productivity growth is picking up in the economy.

Ed Miliband promise to freeze prices could be a vote winner, polling evidence suggests.

ONS says fall in men working could be for many reasons, including early retirement.

IBTimes assesses what Germans and the outside world can expect of Angela Merkel over the next four years.

HSBC flash manufacturing PMI increases to 51.2 in September as exports witness expansion after six months.

Jenny Taylor says the organisation is currently giving out up to 1,000 food bags per month.

Samaras warns "popularism" and extremism" could derail his country's economic recovery.

The hike in construction output is due to a rise in new work from the private sector

Political editor Nick Assinder says George Osborne's second job as Tory election strategist drove his upbeat economic statement.

Egypt's finance ministry has proposed renting out the country's famous pyramids to international tourism firms in an attempt to save the country's economy from collapse.

Obama vows to revive American economy and overhaul gun control legislation during his annual speech.

Economists puzzled by rising jobs despite sluggish economic growth.

Rising demand and disappearing arable land could lead China to import more food and produce a spike in global prices.

The ratings agency Fitch has said that the long-term growth potential of Indian economy could drop if structural reforms are not pushed through.

China's industrial company profits surge, increasing hopes of economic recovery.

FDI in the world's second largest economy falls 0.24 percent year-on-year in October.

Bank of Japan (BoJ) has decided to keep the key rates unchanged despite pressures of a slowing economy.

Thai economy grows 3% year-on-year in three months ending September compared to 4.4% in previous quarter.

World's third largest economy has contracted for two successive quarters.

Japanese economy contracts 0.9% in third quarter and by 3.5% on yearly basis.

Industrial production rises to 9.6 percent in October while retail sales increase to 14.5 percent.

Japan's core machinery orders fall 4.3 percent in September.

Nikkei eases 0.03 percent while KOSPI and Hang Seng gain 0.49 and 0.63 percent respectively. Shanghai index falls 0.01 percent.