GDP contracted at an annual rate of 0.3 percent, a new report shows, as imports surged with panic purchases ahead of tariffs.

Japan is under growing pressure to reduce its deeply unpopular consumption tax in an effort to ease economic hardships on ordinary citizens and limit the impact of US tariffs – though analysts ...

“The fourth quarter stimulus hasn’t translated into the labor market yet,” said Duncan Wrigley, chief China economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics ... to revive consumption, a priority ...

The line chart shows China's consumer index and producer ... their excess supply," said Julian Evans-Pritchard, head of China economics at Capital Economics. The weak data comes during a turbulent ...

Capital Economics' Evans-Pritchard said the PPI ... reversing a 0.1% fall in June. Consumption has been in focus this year with the net export contribution to growth projected to turn negative ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for strengthened efforts to “fully unleash” the country’s consumption potential to spur growth amid a tariff war with the US. The Chinese leader said ...