China’s broad budget expenditure shrank at a faster clip amid an unprecedented drop in income earned by local governments ...

SINGAPORE—China’s economic plight is deepening, heaping pressure on Beijing to step up support for households or risk getting stuck in a low-growth rut beset by tumbling prices and squabbles ...

The slide this week marks the index’s worst since last September. Oil prices also fell sharply this week, a harbinger of economic gloom. Brent crude, the international benchmark, slipped to its ...

If our politicians tried to do to us what China’s politicians just did to their own citizens, I’ll bet Americans would take to the streets. The Chinese government, in one fell swoop ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy grew at an annual rate of 2.9%, slower than the earlier report for 3.1% growth, in the April-June period, boosted by better wages and spending. That shows clear ...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s economy softened in August, extending a slowdown in industrial activity and real estate prices as Beijing faces pressure to ramp up spending to stimulate demand.

GENEVA (AP) — The Palestinian economy is “in free fall,” with production in Gaza plunging to one-sixth of its level before Israeli forces began a blistering military response to the Oct. 7 ...