China's weekly farm produce prices conti...

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Prices of farm produce in China continued to retreat last week, data from the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) showed. From April 15 to 21, the overall price for farm produce

China's overnight Shibor interbank rate ...

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- The overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the borrowing cost of China's interbank market, decreased 7.6 basis points to 2.752 percent Wednes

Macao's visitor arrivals surge 24 pct in...

MACAO, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Visitor arrivals to Macao totaled 3.39 million in March, up by 24.0 percent year-on-year, the special administrative region (SAR)'s statistic service said here on Wednesda

Germany increases tax revenues, fiscal s...

BERLIN, April 23 (Xinhua) -- German tax revenues climbed by 1.8 percent to 175 billion euros (about 196 billion U.S. dollars) year-on-year between January and March, according to the monthly report f

Greece extends primary surplus in 2018

ATHENS, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Greece improved its public finances last year, reaching a surplus of 4.4 percent of economic output, the country's Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announced on Tuesday in

Taiwan's industrial output falls 9.88 pc...

TAIPEI, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Industrial output index in Taiwan declined for the fourth straight month in March, falling 9.88 percent from the previous year to 103.82 amid uncertainty in the global ec

Ping An Bank net profit up 13 pct in Q1

SHENZHEN, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Ping An Bank, a Shenzhen-listed lender controlled by Ping An Insurance, posted 12.9 percent annual growth in net profit for the first quarter of 2019. In a filing to th

Eurostat lowers Spain's public deficit t...

MADRID, April 23 (Xinhua) -- At the end of 2018, Spain's public debt stood at 2.48 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and not at 2.63 percent as it was previously reported in March

Indonesia looks to higher GDP growth nex...

JAKARTA, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has set a stagnant or higher economic growth target next year as consumption and investment are looked to stay afload. The government assumed t

Chinese SOEs maintain profit growth

Profits of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) maintained stable growth in the first quarter of 2019, official data showed Tuesday. The combined profits of SOEs rose 15.6 percent year on year to 8