Private demand, which includes both consumption and business investment, led the contributions to growth in the quarter with household consumption adding 0.2 percentage points to GDP and private ...

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Japan stood atop the global economic ladder. The Nikkei 225 hit a historic high of 38,916 points, and eight of the world’s ...

According to the council, Australia’s 2.5 million small businesses make up 97.7 per cent of all Australian businesses, employ ...

The economy grew more slowly than expected in the March quarter, as extreme weather and a slowdown in government spending ...

Consumers refrain from spending despite lower borrowing costs, cooling inflation. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Australia's weaker economic activity also coincided with state governments scaling back their spending, with Queensland's ...

Australia is officially back in a per capita recession, but there could be a silver lining for struggling mortgage holders.

With GDP up just 0.2% quarter-on-quarter and 1.3% year-on-year, Australias economy showed weak growth in the first quarter of 2025. This years growth rate fell below market expectations and remained ...

The Australian economy grew 0.2% in the March quarter of 2025 and 1.3% over the year — half the quarterly growth economists ...

Yes, Australians really are getting poorer under Labor. The growth figures for the first three months of this year are a disaster. Our economy grew just 0.2 per cent, or half what the Reserve Bank had ...