ECONOMY & MARKETS

India’s headline inflation declined sharply to 6.62% in January from 7.18 percent in December – its slowest pace in three years.

Japan’s GDP fell 0.1% in the the fourth quarter. It had been expected to grow by 0.1%. Will its economy ever recover?

India's trade deficit widened to $20 billion in January from $17.7 billion in December.

The U.S. Department of Commerce will release its first monthly retail sales numbers for 2013 on Thursday.

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Strong petroleum product exports and falling crude oil imports helped make December's trade deficit surprisingly small.

Concerns about the sustainability of China's recovery lessened Friday after officials released January's economic data.

China’s trade surplus dropped in January compared with that in the previous month but was better than expected.

The four-week moving average hit a near five-year low, pointing to an ongoing gradual recovery in the labor market.

India's gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to grow at an annual rate of 5 percent in the 2012/13 fiscal year -- much below the consensus estimate of 5.5 percent -- a government statement said Thursday, citing provisional estimates.

Japan’s core machinery orders posted a better-than-expected rise in December compared with the previous month.

The expiration of the U.S. payroll tax cut likely left consumers with 3.5% less personal disposable income in January.

As other central banks continue printing money, the European Central Bank seems to be moving in the opposite direction.

India's service sector continued to expand in January due to rapid and steady growth in new export orders.

China's service activity expanded in January at a faster pace than in December, according to the HSBC Services PMI.

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The country’s monetary base advanced 10.9 percent in January from an 11.8 percent rise in December.

The U.S. unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9 percent last month.

Two monthly surveys point to increased industrial activity in the world's second-largest economy, though one failed to meet its forecast.

India’s manufacturing sector expanded at a slower rate to a three month low in January, as volume of new export orders eased from the previous month.

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Initial jobless claims are back to levels consistent with modest job growth.

Japan's manufacturing activity slowed in January, but it did so at the slowest pace in four months as a weaker yen helped exports.

Recent economic data indicates that France is lagging further behind Germany and this gap will widen as the year goes on.

"Frankly, this is the best looking contraction in GDP you'll ever see," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics.

A 160,000 job gain in January would maintain the current job uptrend, but gains still aren't big enough to lower the high unemployment rate.

Japan’s retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.4 percent in December in comparison to the same period last year, but lower than the 1.3 percent growth cloaked in November.