Asia economy articles

  • Americans should be more optimistic about our economy

    Americans are down on the economy and believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Yet the metrics of economic health are good, and our friends and rivals in Europe and Asia face more troubling prospects.
  • These Are Asia's Richest Billionaires

    These Are Asia's Richest Billionaires As of the start of April, Mukesh Ambani (66) is the richest man in Asia, with a net worth of $116.1 billion, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, Ambani is the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, a conglomerate that focuses not only on petrochemicals, but also textiles and telecommunications. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, Ambani ranks 11th on Forbes’ worldwide list, which is headed by Bernard Arnault & family (LVMH) with...
  • China's Economy in 3 Charts

    The Chinese government's report for the first quarter of 2024 was a mixed bag of cause for optimism and systemic issues that continue to drag on economic growth.Newsweek charts based on the latest data from China's National Statistics Bureau illustrate three key bellwethers of the world's second-largest economy.GDPAccording to the new data, China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5.3 percent year over year, slightly higher than Q4 2023 and beating many economists' expectations.Though...