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]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_97R32D.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_97R32D.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-02-08T121243Z_977551226_RC2COL9TO452_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CHINA.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AP_21071255458848.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AP20252791152032.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/369444544.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Working from home has driven up overseas demand for Chinese exports, keeping workers in factories during the holiday.

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]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_20318380605517-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Eugenia-Santome-3.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
October data show China manufacturing accelerated to nine-year high led by strong domestic demand, but exports lagged.

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