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Consumption has taken up a greater portion in Beijing's GDP volume than investment over the past five years, an indicator highlighting consumption's increasingly important role in driving the capital's economy, China News Service reports. In 2009, the capital's consumption rate ...
Hong Kong's overall consumer prices rose by 2.6 percent in October, over the same month last year, same as that in September, the city's Census and Statistics Department announced on Monday.
Several Chinese airlines have indicated a willingness to work with national railway operators as a way to deal with increased competition from the country's new high-speed railways, website Qianlong reports. China's rapidly expanding high-speed railways eventually will cover 60 ...
Chicago grain prices tumbled on Friday as China moved to rein in inflation, and as a result, it slows the economy and curbs demands for food. The wheat futures fell for the first time in three days, while soybeans and corn also slipped. The most active corn contract for December ...
Wall Street edged higher on Friday despite concerns on Europe and China weighed the market. Ireland appears likely to receive a loan to bolster its troubled banks, as officials from the country, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund negotiated a financial aid ...
Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Friday inched down, as investors worried that China would take more steps to fight inflation. In contrast, silver continued to hike in the day.
The U.S. stocks slipped on Friday after China took further steps to curb inflation. China's central bank on Friday ordered banks to set aside an additional 0.5 percent of their deposits from Nov. 29, the fifth such hike this year and the second increase this month. The move aimed ...
Canadian stocks rose most in three month on Thursday. The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed up 212.18 points, or 1.68 percent, at 12,870.01. Vancouver-based Western Coal Corp. jumped up 47.02 percent after Florida-based Walter Energy offered to buy the company. Western Coal said it ...
The U.S dollar slid against major currencies in late New York trading on Thursday as Ireland might get help from other European countries and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Ireland's central bank chief Patrick Honohan said on Thursday he expected Dublin to receive tens of ...
Wall Street rallied on Thursday as General Motors shares surged while optimism grew on easing Ireland's debt crisis. Shares of General Motors gained more than 3 percent above its initial public offering price of 33 U.S. dollars on the first trading day as the car maker returned ...
Wall Street rose on Thursday as General Motors shares surged while optimism grew on easing Ireland 's debt crisis. Shares of General Motors gained more than 6 percent above its initial public offering price of 33 U.S. dollars. Ireland was expected to receive tens of billions of ...
Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Wednesday further declined, settling at the lowest level in three weeks, as investors vied with each other to liquidate their positions in spite of a weaker dollar. Market traders noted investors were ...
Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said Wednesday that no further measures were necessary to halt the fall of the U.S. dollar against the Brazilian real. Mantega said the value of the Brazilian real is now at a reasonable level, with the exchange rate closing at 1.726 reais ...
China's Ministry of Finance announced Wednesday that it would issue the country's third-ever 50-year national treasury bonds this week at a yield of 4.4 percent. With a total face value of 28 billion yuan (4.22 billion U.S. dollars), the bonds will be on sale for five days from ...
China Unicom, the country's second largest mobile carrier and official partner of iPhone in China, began Wednesday a new sales contract which bundles iPhone with its SIM card to curb speculative reselling, according to a statement on its website. If a consumer is found to use the ...
China's prices for farm produce and producer goods fell week on week, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Wednesday. During the week that ended Nov. 28, vegetable prices continued to drop as most regions have been working hard to ensure winter vegetable supplies, said a statement ...
China's Ministry of Finance said Wednesday it would sell 32.14 billion yuan (4.8 billion U.S. dollars) of five-year book-entry treasury bonds beginning on Thursday. The bonds, the 39th batch to be floated this year, carry a fixed interest rate of 3.64 percent and will be sold to ...
China China's stocks closed at mixed levels Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.12 percent, or 3.27 points, to close at 2,823.45. The Shenzhen Component Index lost 0.21 percent, or 25.9 points, to end at 12,310.38. Hong Kong stocks closed up 241.81 points, ...
China's stock market celebrated its 20th anniversary as the nation's two stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen opened for trading Wednesday. Over the last two decades, China's stock market has seen fast growth in the number of listed companies, total market value and financing ...
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 fourth consecutive month and ...
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