The East Asian country posted 240,000 births last year, according to preliminary estimates, boosting the country's fertility ...

South Koreans are finally getting around to making more babies, which is of great news to their government. South's Korea's ...

The Asian country has recorded the world's lowest fertility rates, but the number of newborns between January 2024 and November 2024 rose 3% from a year earlier to 220,094, monthly government data sho ...

HONG KONG, Jan 17 (Reuters) - China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths ...

SEOUL, 16th January, 2025 (WAM) -- The Republic of Korea's central bank kept its benchmark interest rate frozen Thursday following its two successive rate cuts. According to Yonhap News Agency, the ...

“This trend is particularly prominent among customers whose existing loans have exited the lock-in period and are currently on floating rates, which remain higher than fixed rates,” she sai ...

"If we continue getting numbers like this, it is reasonable to think rate cuts could happen in the first half of the year ... I am optimistic that this disinflationary trend will continue and we ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Inflation is likely to continue to ease and possibly allow the U.S. central bank to cut interest rates sooner and faster than expected, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher ...

However, the rate turned upward from 11:10 a.m., when Governor Lee Chang-yong of the Bank of Korea held a press briefing ... making it clear that the easing trend has not ended.

The Bank of Korea (BoK) unexpectedly kept its key interest rate at 3% during its January 2025 meeting, defying market expectations of a 25 bps cut. This decision came amid a weak won, which has ...

South Korea's central bank unexpectedly held its policy rate steady amid ongoing pressure ... Both the BOK and the government forecast that inflation will trend lower in 2025 after years of ...