India's industrial output rose 16.7 percent in January, official data showed Friday, broadly in line with forecasts as manufacturing output surged. The manufacturing sector, which comprises the vast majority of the industrial production index, saw production rise 17.9 percent from levels a year earlier, the data showed ...

The number of jobs advertised in newspapers and online in Australia rose by almost 20 percent in February, according to a bank survey released Tuesday which suggests unemployment has peaked. The ANZ survey found total job ads rose 19.1 percent in February to a weekly average of 159,778 ...

German industrial orders leapt in January, gaining 4.3 percent from December owing to a 7.1-percent surge on the domestic side, provisional figures from the economy ministry showed on Friday. Analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast an increase of just 1.5 percent in manufacturing orders, after ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc <HOT.N> is raising the annual amount of stock and options that it gives board members who do not work for the company by 25 percent. Those directors will get $125,000 in stock and stock options, Starwood said ...