Last Updated: Thursday, March 5, 2015, 08:28
The growth target for 2015 is also lower than the 7.4 per cent economic growth rate registered in 2014, its weakest annual expansion since 1990.
Last Updated: Monday, March 2, 2015, 17:44
The eurozone`s fall in consumer prices eased while jobless figures fell slightly Monday, but the modest improvements were not enough to reduce fears of a deflationary spiral.
Last Updated: Monday, March 2, 2015, 09:56
The final HSBC/Markit Purchasing Managers` Index (PMI) climbed to 50.7 in February - the strongest level since July - from 49.7 in January, as overall new orders picked up.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 09:09
The Bank of Japan on Wednesday held off launching fresh stimulus, even as weak growth figures earlier this week aggravate concerns about the strength of a recovery in the world`s number three economy.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 18:02
The prices of goods and services dipped 0.1 percent in January after rising 0.3 percent the month before, the national statistics office said.
Last Updated: Friday, January 30, 2015, 17:13
Eurozone consumer prices fell by a record-equalling 0.6 percent in January, confirming deflation could be taking hold for the long term, EU data showed Wednesday.
Last Updated: Friday, January 30, 2015, 08:24
Japan`s core consumer inflation slowed for a fifth straight month in December, as the internal affairs ministry reported household spending fell a greater-than-expected 3.4 percent from a year ago.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 22, 2015, 16:26
Financial markets are primed for the European Central Bank to launch a quantitative easing programme on Thursday in an attempt to revive the moribund euro zone economy and inflation.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 22, 2015, 00:40
The European Central Bank`s executive board has drawn up proposals to buy 50 billion euros ($58 billion) of sovereign bonds per month until the end of 2016, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 15, 2015, 23:32
IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday encouraged the European Central Bank to unleash fresh stimulus on the ailing eurozone, saying falling global oil prices increase the risk of deflation.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 14:58
The European Central Bank (ECB) does not have many options left apart from sovereign bond purchases to ward off deflation in the euro area, its president Mario Draghi said on Wednesday.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 10, 2015, 00:31
ECB board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger has disputed in a magazine interview that the eurozone is now experiencing deflation and expressed scepticism about the central bank buying up sovereign bonds.
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