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Canada’s GDP slips in April as manufacturing falters
Canada’s real GDP fell 0.1% in April, reversing a 0.2% increase in March, according to Statistics Canada. The national ...
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In pictures: Jeff Bezos gets hitched
What counts as rich, and how much should it bother the rest of us? The groom at the “wedding of the year” ranks third on the ...
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Trump says NATO allies agreed to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP
President Donald Trump confirmed that NATO allies had agreed to increase defense spending targets to 5% of their GDP by 2035, adding more than one trillion dollars a year to the budget. The historic ...
Sweden and the Netherlands say before NATO summit they will spend 5% of GDP on defense
Sweden and the Netherlands say they intend to increase defense spending to 5% of their gross domestic product in line with U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands. Trump and his NATO counterparts ...
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Statistics Canada says real GDP down 0.1 per cent in April as manufacturing slowed
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product edged down 0.1 per cent in April as the manufacturing sector ...
Germany to raise defense spending to 3.5% of GDP in 2029
Germany's finance minister on Tuesday vowed to lift the country's defense spending to 3.5% of gross domestic product in 2029 ...
Pentagon chief tells Asian allies: Raise defence spending to 5% of GDP like Europe
Pete Hegseth says at Shangri-La Dialogue not fair for Asian nations to be spending less than European peers if they face China's "threat" more directly Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...
US first-quarter GDP revised lower on tepid consumer spending
The U.S. economy contracted a bit faster than previously thought in the first quarter amid tepid consumer spending, ...
ECB economists improve GDP forecasting with ChatGPT
A ChatGPT analysis of qualitative commentary in PMI releases can significantly improve GDP forecasting, a paper published by ...
U.S. first quarter GDP revised down 0.5% in third estimate
The U.S. economy shrank at a faster pace in the beginning of the year than originally reported, as new economic data showed a ...
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India’s rise to 4th largest economy: Does GDP growth alone show the whole picture? - The Hindu
For instance, as Chart 1A shows, India’s absolute GDP (in $ billion) is estimated to have risen from $468.4 billion in 2000 to $4,187 billion in 2025, narrowly surpassing Japan’s figures in ...