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China's stock index futures opened higher Thursday. The contract for settlement in January 2011, the most actively traded, opened 13.4 points higher at 3,167. The February 2011 contract opened 7 points higher at 3,185, while the contract for settlement in March 2011 climbed 9 ...
ChiNext Index opened 5.16 points higher to open at 1,094.83 points Thursday. The index, officially launched on June 1, 2010 on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, has a base value of 1,000 points. The ChiNext Index, together with the Shenzhen Component Index and the Shenzhen SME (small ...
The Chinese currency, Renminbi (RMB), Friday weakened slightly against the U.S. dollar after hitting an all-time high Thursday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. The central parity rate of RMB, or the yuan, retreated three basis points to 6.5886 per U.S. ...
China's express delivery topped 10 million pieces per day as of the end of 2010, ranking the third most deliveries in the world, the State Post Bureau (SPB) said on Tuesday. Some 2.4 billion pieces were handled in 2010, an increase of 1.5 times from five years ago. Also, revenues ...
Chinese mainland's stock market should extend gains this week due to more capitals at the beginning of a year, analysts said. But the increases may be limited as investors stay cautious prior to annual working conferences by the central bank and other government departments ...
Southwest China's Chongqing municipality plans to levy a tax on luxury property purchases to rein in soaring prices in the real estate market, the Beijing News reports. With detailed regulations to be released at a date yet to be determined, the taxation of high-end commercial ...
A visitor asks for information on events at the Meeting & Exhibition Hong Kong (MEHK) booth of a recent international business and incentive travel expo in Beijing. Industry insiders say China's top-three earning organizers of meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions ...
Companies listed on China's Nasdaq-style ChiNext board have raised 116.75 billion yuan (17.61 billion U.S. dollars) since the board's creation in October 2009, Shang Fulin, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said Saturday. By the end of 2010, 153 companies ...
Hiring expectations among employers on the Chinese mainland reached a 10-year high for the first quarter of this year as 72 percent of companies planned to recruit - a sharp rise from 65 percent in the previous quarter, a survey revealed Thursday. The figure, much higher than the ...
Esprit Holdings Ltd., the Hong Kong- based clothing retailer that derives 83 percent of its sales from Europe, plans to expand its operations to 400 Chinese cities as revenue from the continent declines. Mainland China Esprit stores will increase 83 percent to 1,700 within five ...
Coming off a better-than-expected holiday shopping season, retail experts are growing a bit more optimistic about the outlook for 2010, while consumers are expected to be, um, cheap. "We see a highly frugal consumer being thoughtful and cautious in the way they spend and the way ...
Clothing retailer Reitmans (Canada) Ltd. said Wednesday that waning consumer confidence hurt sales in the fourth quarter, while profit plummeted 75.8 per cent to $9-million on the impact of Quebec income tax reassessments. The women's clothier said its earnings amounted to 13 ...
For investors, this year can't end soon enough. Luckily, it is indeed coming to a close, and as with each first week in January, the slate is wiped clean and we begin anew. Indeed, the opening of a new calendar can permit us to reconsider the future. And while there's still ...
Department store sales, hurt by weak clothing sales and the unfolding economic crisis, declined 6.8% in October from a year earlier on a same-store basis for the eighth consecutive fall, an industry group said Tuesday. Total sales came to 584.56 billion yen, the Japan Department ...
Klopman International – Europe’s leading manufacturer of polyester/cotton and cotton fabrics for the image workwear, protectivewear and casual apparel markets – owned since 2004 by a group of European financial investors led by BS Private Equity Group, has, as of the end of April...
Cotton traded lower today on light volume as the market is looking for some more information to build a case for where the market should go in the short term. Fundamentally, business has picked up but mills are not chasing the price. After the initial business began last week, ...
Very quiet day of trading compared to the volatility in the last several weeks for cotton. Wheat as well as gold did perform very strong today along with a bounce back in the stock market who is counting on further cuts by the Fed on Wednesday. Cotton did find some friendly ...
The USDA report released today was neutral to bearish and took some of the steam out of the recent up turn in prices. With almost no changes to the U.S. and China, we got a significant change in Pakistan with a 1.25 million bale cut in production which was offset by a 1 mb cut in ...
Another strong day for grains as cotton followed and the stock market closed unchanged. Business was quiet over the weekend as the market continues to trade on light volume in a narrow range. At the moment, we still have a positive technical picture, but the fundamentals are ...
More fireworks for the last trading day of the month as we sent the market higher into the long Labor day weekend. Volume picked up considerably as we traded over 4,000 contracts in the overnight session as cotton was up significantly on the news of over 122,000 decerts. This ...
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