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Climate action, India’s COVID surge and a Super League red card

We gather the numbers to know from the week’s top business and economic news stories so you can impress your friends.

Two Spanish and six English football clubs abandoned the newly formed Super League, crashing the entire project [File: Javier Soriano/AFP]

China posts record economic growth after plunge 12 months ago

But quarterly comparison shows slowing momentum, with analysts forecasting levelling off in construction and exports.

China's economy recorded a steaming-hot growth rate in the first quarter of 2021, but analysts see it cooling off over the rest of the year [File: Aly Song/Reuters]

As Japan’s Suga meets Biden, China is the elephant in the room

US president’s first in-person summit with a foreign leader expected to focus on Uighur issue and advanced technology.

The US and Japan share many of the same grievances concerning China, a key issue as Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, left, and US President Joe Biden meet [File: AP Photo]

The Fed, women entrepreneurs and the Kardashians’ long goodbye

We gather the numbers to know from the week’s biggest economic news stories so you can impress your friends.

Hard work and social media: The secrets to the success of Keeping Up With The Kardashians as the long-running reality TV show enters its final season [File: Matt Sayles/AP Photo]

How COVID has shone a light on the way we measure economies

A year after COVID became a pandemic, more studies say the way economies are measured needs an overhaul.

A big slice of normal with a side order of vaccine, please. A year after much of the world went into lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, economies have started to open up, with dine-in service returning in restaurants in some place, as vaccines get rolled out and new case numbers fall [File: Go Nakamura/BLOOMBERG]

This Lunar New Year: Good for China’s factories, bad for travel

Working from home has driven up overseas demand for Chinese exports, keeping workers in factories during the holiday.

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Club of one: China’s economy grew faster than expected in 2020

China is likely to have been the only large economy to grow last year as it rebounded from COVID lockdowns.

High overseas demand for Chinese electronics and medical equipment, combined with strong domestic consumer spending propelled China's economy to faster-than-expected growth in the fourth quarter of 2020 [File: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo]

Small firms: Little engines that could save the global economy

Small companies have taken the brunt of the COVID slump, but their agility has proven to be their greatest asset.

Eugenia Santome managed to keep all of her employees at BeWe Home working even amid the pandemic [File: Natalie Alcoba/Al Jazeera]

Strong China factory data show domestic demand driving recovery

October data show China manufacturing accelerated to nine-year high led by strong domestic demand, but exports lagged.

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Five questions about China’s latest five-year plan

From ‘healthy’ growth to high-tech, China has outlined its economic goals and strategies for the next five years.

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