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Stocks rose on the Chinese mainland, pushing up the benchmark index by the most in two months, after the central bank refrained from increasing interest rates and government reports showed the economy is withstanding tightening policies. PetroChina Co and Jiangxi Copper Co led an ...
China's consumer price index (CPI), a major gauge of inflation, rose to a 28-month high of 5.1 percent in November, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Saturday. The growth rate picked up from 4.4 percent in October, according to the NBS. The inflation was driven by a 11...
The People's Bank of China, or the central bank, will make further efforts to maintain prices stable after China's inflation rate hit a 28-month high, according to reports on Monday. The central bank will analyze global economic developments and balance the relations between ...
Global food prices rose to a record high in December 2010, according to a monthly report released by UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) on Wednesday. The FAO Food Price Index surged to a record high last month, surpassing the previous high of June 2008 when food ...
The desire to own commodities has helped turn the grain prices from a lower open to a higher mid-session trade Wednesday. At mid-session, the March corn futures are 12 cents higher at $5.73 3/4. The Jan. soybean contract is 8 1/2 cents higher at $12.94. The March wheat futures ...
It isn't just the weather. China's inflation problem has deeper roots, and getting it under control means taking a harder line with banks. Consumer-price gains have been topping China's annual target of 3% since May. For much of this time, inflation was dismissed as a blip after ...
If China hoped to quell rumors of an incipient interest-rate increase or other tightening moves, its recent shift in the data calendar didn't help. China's statistics bureau said Wednesday it will release November economic data on Saturday, earlier than the originally scheduled ...
Nicolas Sarkozy, France s president, has rightly identified food price volatility as a priority for his country as it chairs the Group of 20 leading economies this year. Figures released on Wednesday by the UN s Food and Agricultural Organisation show that costs for a range of ...
The strong performance of China's manufacturing sector reflects a better economic climate. However, a close look at the figures shows that cautious confidence is necessary, according an analysis of People's Daily on Thursday. China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) ...
Food prices are expected to remain high this year, provoking concern that the world may be approaching another crisis, but economists cautioned that many factors could prevent that. World food prices rose sharply in late 2010, bringing them close to the crisis levels that ...
BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) of China's manufacturing sector rose to 55.2 percent in November, up 0.5 percentage points from October, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) said Wednesday. The figure marked an increase for the ...
For the 9th time in just 5 days, China's top economic planner announced today that it will take additional measures to stabilize commodity prices. First of all, the National Development and Reform Commission says, 6 regulatory groups will be sent out to 18 provinces and ...
High oil prices threaten to derail the fragile economic recovery among developed nations this year, the leading energy watchdog has warned, putting pressure on the Opec oil cartel to increase production. Over the past year the oil import costs for the 34 mostly rich countries ...
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), or the central bank, reiterated Thursday that it would give higher priority to stabilizing prices this year. The central bank plans to make its micro-control policies more targeted and effectively manage liquidity to bring the monetary ...
Deflation may be the talk of the town, but don't tell that to the commodities markets. Despite pullbacks last month, a smorgasbord of commodities from copper and coffee to oats are at or near 52-week highs. What's going on? Many would like to credit a weak U.S. dollar. Since most ...
China's currency should appreciate 5% against the U.S. dollar this year, adding to its 3.6% rise in the second half of 2010, according to forecasts by unnamed industry sources cited in a state-media report Tuesday. The forecast, reported by the China Securities Journal, matched ...
Wheat prices touched fresh highs in the first trading session of 2011, breaking above $9 a bushel in Minneapolis, amid fears over the impact of heavy rains in Australia and plunging temperatures in the US. Flooding centred on the Australian state of Queensland, which has affected ...
Crude oil prices dropped to under $90 per barrel Thursday despite a weekly U.S. stockpile report that said inventories declined in the week ending Dec. 24. The Energy Information Administration said stockpiles of crude oil dropped by 1.3 million barrels in the week to 339.4 ...
After having frequently raised the deposit reserve rate and increasing the interest rate twice this year, the Central Bank has again resorted to using a rarely used means of regulation. On December 26th, the Central Bank announced on its website it was raising the lending (re...
China is expected to resume building its strategic oil reserves next year, a development likely to quicken the march to triple-digit oil prices. It isn't a secret that China is building an emergency stockpile of oil akin to the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, though the Chinese ...
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