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US businesses in China enjoyed increased revenues and market share in 2010. A survey by the American Chamber Of Commerce in Shanghai has found 87 percent of companies experienced growth in revenues in 2010 and 61 percent increased their market share. More than half of the firms ...
The latest wave of new shares dropping below their initial public offering (IPO) prices on the A-share market may prompt the securities regulator to implement new rules to further reform the IPO pricing system, analysts said. The IPO shares have met a cold reception from ...
Federal Reserve holdings of US Treasuries now exceed China's, with the Fed owning $1,108 billion and China owning $896 billion. According to one analyst, the Fed will have accumulated $1,600 billion US Treasuries, a number likely to match China's and Japan's combined holdings by ...
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, announced Tuesday it would raise benchmark one-year borrowing and lending rates by 25 basis points from Wednesday. The rate hikes come amid increasing pressure on the Chinese government to control inflation. After the hikes, ...
China plans to sell 600 billion yuan (91 billion U.S. dollars) worth of welfare lotteries from 2011 to 2015, up 73.6 percent from the past five years, an official from the Welfare Lottery Distribution and Management Center (WLDMC) has said. The sales of welfare lotteries posted ...
China's central bank is planning to use an indicator measuring total financing quantity and broader measures of money supply, such as M3 and M4, to better monitor liquidity conditions and curb inflation, local media reported on Thursday. The People's Bank of China has already ...
China's State Council, the nation's cabinet, pledged Wednesday to step up efforts to boost grain production as relentless droughts continue to wreak havoc in north China's wheat growing regions. To encourage farmers to plant more and increase production, China will increase ...
China's economic planning agency Thursday announced a rise in minimum rice purchase prices this year to encourage farmers to grow more grain. A statement on the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) website said the government would continue the policy of minimum ...
A group of U.S. congressmen Thursday proposed a bill to press China to let its currency appreciate faster, a latest move that may harm China-U.S. cooperation. Sander Levin, a ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, introduced a ...
China's foreign exchange regulator has refuted media reports that the country may lose up to $450 billion by holding bonds of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the US mortgage giants. The reports suggested that the US government might phase out the two companies. "The report is ...
Foreign trade in far west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region grew rapidly over the past five years, regional authorities said Saturday. From 2006 to 2010, the region's foreign trade amounted to 76 billion U.S. dollars, more than 230 percent more than the 2001-2005 period, ...
The general office of the State Council, or China's Cabinet, has decided to establish a ministerial joint committee for undertaking national-safety reviews of foreign mergers and acquisitions of domestic firms. That was learned from a circular posted on www.gov.cn, the Chinese ...
The People's Bank of China, the central bank, said Saturday the country had issued 5.1 trillion yuan (773.3 billion U.S. dollars) worth of bonds in 2010, an increase of 3.1 percent over that in 2009. National debt, debt issued by policy banks and short-term financing bonds ...
The Ministry of Finance said Saturday that China has abolished 31 types of administrative fees on enterprises since the beginning of the month in a bid to further improve the nation's business environment. The move is expected to reduce enterprises' financial burdens by 5 billion ...
Shanghai General Motors Co. will recall 2,806 imported Cadillac CTS vehicles in China to repair faulty track bars to prevent safety risks, China's quality watchdog said on Monday. The recall, which is set to begin on March 21, includes models that were produced between June 16, ...
China Mobile Limited and Vodafone Group Plc signed a Strategic Co-operation Framework Agreement in Barcelona Tuesday. Wang Jianzhou, the Chairman of China Mobile and Vittorio Colao, the Chief Executive of Vodafone Group Plc signed the agreement at the China Mobile-Vodafone ...
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority Tuesday announced that the new series of 500-HK dollar banknotes would be put into circulation on Feb. 22. The new 500-HK dollar banknotes will be available for exchange at the three note-issuing banks -- Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) ...
The Beijing municipal government released a package of rules on Wednesday to restrict home purchases in the capital and rein in soaring property prices. The package follows the central government's property tightening measures announced in January to cool the market. Under the ...
China's statistics agency is to start releasing the average overall home prices for 70 major cities under a new survey method launched this year. The National Bureau of Statistics says the new methods will improve reliability. January's house prices will be the first to be ...
China will further regulate rare earth exports and crack down on smuggling of rare earth minerals, Commerce Ministry spokesman Yao Jian said at a press conference Thursday. The comment comes a day after China's State Council, or the Cabinet, said China will look to streamline its ...
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