Tag: economic outlook

Economic confidence among chief financial officers declined moderately in the first quarter of 2024 and is slightly below its historical ...

Economic confidence among finance professionals hits highest level since the first quarter of 2023 , though cost concerns persist , according to ...

Chief financial officers in Southeast Asia are bracing for "heightened challenges" amid ongoing volatility, according to a latest study by ...

Chief financial officers need to get decisions right for their organisations to provide business confidence in investing in growth. This ...

Gartner says weak demand and rising costs will shrink earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) margins by more ...

The year 2024 brings a landscape of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for corporate treasurers. From the ongoing global conflicts to ...

Among the things finance leaders must focus on for the new year is undoubtedly the rising interest and trend on ...

Chief financial officers step into the new year with strategies in mind for the benefit of their organisations as a ...

The near-term economic outlook for the ASEAN region in 2024 remains positive, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Rajiv Biswas, ...

The talk on standards and reporting on environmental, social, and governance (ESG), which refers to the factors that investors measure ...

To keep up--and even get ahead--of the race in the market today, chief financial officers must have a good grasp ...

There are four Asia Pacific economies that Fitch Ratings expect to grow at least 5% in 2024. Economic growth in ...

One defining feature of the geopolitical environment in 2024 will be multipolarity, according to Ernst & Young. As a greater ...

The Asia Pacific economic outlook is expected to remain bright in 2024 after a rapid expansion in 2023, said Rajiv ...

Chief financial officers in the Asia-Pacific region will be zeroing in on revenue growth for the next 12 months, according ...

Chief financial officers in the Asia-Pacific across various sectors such as financial services, life sciences and health care, manufacturing, public ...

China is currently facing an economic slowdown following the pandemic, which have raised concerns among ratings agencies that led to ...

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) ordered domestic brokerages’ overseas units to stop opening new stock accounts for onshore investors ...

Accountants remain the most trusted players in tax, according to a survey by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), ...

Digital leaders are confident that embracing technology across various areas of business is bringing productivity gains, according to a latest ...

Hong Kong’s economy is poised to rebound strongly this year, before moderating toward trend growth next year, said ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic ...

Atradius has recently upgraded its global GDP growth forecast for 2023 to 2.4%, which is a slowdown from 2022 but ...

The global economy is more resilient than previously, said IMF recently when unveiling its latest World Economic Outlook. The IMF ...

The Asian economic outlook stays positive as the region’s domestic demand has so far remained strong despite monetary tightening, said ...

China's reopening will spur a rebound in its economic growth, which in turn will affect economies and businesses across Asia-Pacific ...

China’s policy, including its reopening and policy measures that refocus on growth rather than regulatory tightening, will likely drive a ...

When it comes to Asia’s economic outlook 2023, resilience and growth are the major characteristics despite the gloomy predictions about ...

The Southeast Asian economic growth is forecasted to hit 4-5% annually over the next 10 years, said Bain recently when ...

OECD warns of pervasive global economic slowdown, projecting growth at a modest 3% this year before slowing further to just ...

The 2022 economic outlook is defined by digital resilience and a return to the experience economy, said MasterCard Economics Institute ...

The global economy is projected to grow 5.9% in 2021 and 4.9% in 2022, 0.1 percentage point lower for 2021 ...

Global economic recovery lost momentum in Q3 2021 though overall confidence and orders remained at high levels across regions, said ...

China's (A1 stable) economic rebound has strengthened and become more broad-based since the beginning of 2021, said Moody's recently. Although ...

Global economic growth would be higher but the recovery is likely to remain uneven and, crucially, dependent on the effectiveness ...

The post-pandemic global economy wound not the like the one before the coronavirus hit, said EIU recently. To tackle the ...

India’s economy may shrink in Q2 as the number of Covid-19 cases is on the rise. The country reported another ...

The global economy is estimated to grow at 6% in 2021 and 4.4% in 2022, said IMF recently. The current ...

India’s GDP could grow 10% in fiscal 2022, said S&P Global Ratings recently. Consistently good agriculture performance, a flattening of ...

Global confidence in Q4 of 2020 stalled and remains fragile at the start of 2021, said ACCA and IMA (Institute ...

The pandemic shock has increased the vulnerability of Asia's weaker credits though Asia’s China-led economic recovery is set to pull ...

The IMF has raised its projections for global growth to 5.5% in 2021 from its previous estimate of 5.2% in ...

Global growth is projected at −4.4% in 2020, a less severe contraction than forecast in the June 2020 World Economic ...

China's moderate policy support and the lack of a growth target for 2020 suggest that recovery from the coronavirus recession ...

The current pandemic will trigger a major acceleration in business insolvencies due to both the suddenness and historic size of ...

The absence of a GDP growth target together with the announced fiscal support measures indicate that China’s recovery from the ...

The global economy could shrink 4% in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Bloomberg Economics ...

Indonesia's (Baa2 stable) GDP growth will slow to its lowest rate since the 1998-99 Asian financial crisis, with prolonged risk ...

The world is already in a recession, according to Bloomberg Economics’ new global GDP tracker. A report by Bloomberg says ...

With Covid-19 sweeping across the globe, Euler Hermes is expecting a sharp global recession in 1H 2020 followed by a ...

While huge uncertainties remain over the impact of the coronavirus on China's economy, Fitch Ratings has come up with two ...

There are three major long-term global economic issues, said ACCA, which recently published a related report together with the Institute ...

The IMF warned that the global outlook remains sluggish and is without clear signs of a turning point. As a ...

Global growth is set to rise by 2.5% this year, a small rise from an estimated 2.4% in 2019, as ...

PwC predicts that 2020 will be a year of ‘slowbalisation’ in the global economy, where trade tensions continue to create ...

India’s GDP will grow 5% in the year through March 2020, the lowest since 2013, according to government numbers. Weighed ...

China’s GDP growth won’t drop below 6% in 2020 and will hit 6.1% this year, wrote Sheng Songcheng, a former ...

Moody’s Investors Service said recently that its outlook for APAC non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs),which highlights the key credit trends shaping ...

Moody’s Investors Services said today its outlook for China's financial institutions over the next 12 months is negative because slowing ...

Atradius forecasts a 0.6% contraction in global trade growth this year with only a modest recovery to 1.5% growth in ...

While the export-reliant Singapore economy has seen a more serious decline in the second half of 2019, the country believes ...

IMF has downgraded global growth once again.  Growth continues to be weakened by rising trade barriers and increasing geopolitical tensions, ...

IMF has downgraded global growth once again.  Global growth is forecast at 3% for 2019, its lowest level since 2008–09 ...

Singapore's exports in September dropped for the seventh straight month as electronics shipments continued to slide, official data showed on ...

Fitch Ratings said that global growth next year will hit its lowest since 2012 when the Eurozone crisis was at ...

The global outlook has become increasingly fragile and uncertain. Global growth is projected to slow to 2.9% in 2019 and ...

Bank Indonesia recently cuts its key policy rate by 25 basis points to 5.5%. This is expected to help the ...

Former IMF deputy director of research Carmen Reinhart—now an economist at Harvard University—warns that Hong Kong’s unrest could trigger a ...

Singapore's three largest bank by assets face rising asset risk in 2019 amid a weakening macroeconomic environment, despite their record ...

It has been more than one year since the US initiated the trade war with China and increased American tariffs. ...

Amid the escalating US-China trade war, Singapore cut its economic growth outlook for this year on Tuesday to 0.0%-1.0% from ...

Risks to the forecast are mainly to the downside, according to this report by IMF. The risks include:- further trade ...

Hong Kong’s economic growth remained sluggish in Q2 at 0.6% year-on-year. While consumption expanded by 4% year-on-year, it was slower ...

ACCA’s GECS (global economic confidence survey) indicates that global confidence index in Q2 fell slightly after the bounce in Q1. ...

While Singapore’s growth will stabilize in the medium term around 2.5%, it will slow to 2% this year as a ...

China’s foreign exchange reserves increased more than expected in June, according to data from the People’s Bank of China on ...

A high frequency of major insolvencies, the constant yield curve inversion, and downward revisions of growth predictions by organizations such ...

This is not good news for the economy of a country that has heavy reliance on export. Singapore’s non-oil domestic ...