Taiwan Q3 preliminary GDP growth at 2.06%, fastest since Q1 2015

[TAIPEI] Taiwan's economy grew a preliminary 2.06 per cent in the third quarter of 2016 year-on-year, the statistics agency said on Friday.

It was the strongest growth rate since the first quarter of 2015, when the economy expanded 4.04 per cent, according to a statement from the agency.

The result beat the 1.8 per cent growth forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.

REUTERS