Strong consumption boosts prospects of Japan tax hike

Japan's second-quarter 2013 real GDP jumped 2.6% from the last quarter (seasonally adjusted,...

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Market is likely under-rating housing boost to US GDP

Residential investment has historically been responsible for about 5% of US GDP and it can play...

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Driven by rising interest and services incomes, banks' returns continued improving in the first...

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EU association agreements with Georgia and Armenia have come a step closer with the successful...

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What may be Nelson Mandela's final illness coincides with the countdown to 2014 elections marking...

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The Senate voted to confirm Richard Cordray as the first director of the Consumer Financial...

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Ghana faces a record 12% budget deficit -- despite becoming an oil exporter in 2010, and IMF...

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Demonstrations continued outside the Yerevan municipal offices yesterday, demanding the...

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In new economic forecasts released on July 24, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and...

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The State Council last month said that it would loosen household registration (hukou)...

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