BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s top leaders will chart the country’s economic course for 2021-2025 at a key meeting starting on Monday, seeking to balance growth and reforms to avoid stagnation amid an uncertain global outlook and deepening tensions with the United States.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Global stocks barely budged on Friday as investors tightened positions with less than two weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election and awaited a breakthrough in stimulus talks in Washington.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) expects the country’s economy to continue its recovery trend based on the smoothed growth rate of leading index (LI), a predictive tool to anticipate upturns and downturns in the economy.

Overall auto sales in China are expected to drop 3 percent this year and return to growth next year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the regulator of China’s industrial sectors including automobiles.

SINGAPORE — Asia’s economic contraction this year will be worse than previously thought as several emerging markets in the region have slowed down sharply while battling the coronavirus outbreak, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.

TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Japan’s factory activity extended declines in October, a private sector survey showed on Friday, highlighting the impact a resurgence in global coronavirus infections has had on the world’s third-largest economy.