Global economic momentum is slowing. Businesses face rising inflation pressures due to an energy crunch. Manufacturing and services sectors...

Rising logistics costs and delivery times are pressuring central banks, with some indicators reaching multi-year highs, signaling potential...

Disruptions led to delivery delays and price hikes, masking underlying weak demand. While some European economies saw growth, Asian manufac...

Asian factory activity faced challenges in July. Weak global demand and US tariffs impacted business. Japan and South Korea made trade deal...

Japan's factory activity declined for the eighth month in February, but the downturn slowed, indicating potential recovery. The flash manuf...

Manufacturing activity shrank in Japan and expanded at a slower pace in South Korea due partly to soft domestic demand and rising input cos...

The surveys show how Chinese firms are ramping up production despite weak domestic demand, which Beijing has failed to reverse with a rescu...

While manufacturing purchasing managers’ indexes for South Korea and Taiwan showed signs of stabilisation in activity, the mood in Japan wa...

The final au Jibun Bank Japan manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) was at 49.6, unchanged from the previous month and slightly do...

Manufacturing activity also contracted in export-reliant economies, including Japan and South Korea, and in emerging nations, such as Vietn...

Lockdowns in China have snarled regional and global logistics and supply chains, with both Japan and South Korea reporting sharp declines i...

Uncertainty caused by the invasion, combined with an intensifying cost-of-living crisis, suggests the euro zone's manufacturing industry co...

China's factory activity expanded at a softer pace in June with output growth slumping to the lowest level in 15 months, according to a pri...

China's factory activity expanded at the fastest pace this year in May on solid demand at home and overseas, though sharp rises in input pr...

Japan also saw factory activity slip back into contraction as a new state of emergency, rolled out in January, hit operating conditions, PM...

But a global resurgence in coronavirus infections has made the outlook highly uncertain, keeping governments and central banks under pressu...

Asia's factories took a beating in February from the coronavirus outbreak with activity in China shrinking at a record pace, surveys showed...