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China's manufacturing activities may cool to a seven-month low in February amid tightening measures and seasonal changes, a survey showed Monday. The HSBC Flash China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, a newly launched indicator to measure industrial activities across the ...
China's auto sales rose 13.81 percent year on year in January to hit 1.89 million, a monthly record, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) announced Friday. Auto output rose 11.33 percent from a year earlier to about 1.8 million units, said a statement from the ...
Banks in China extended 1.04 trillion yuan (US$158 billion) of new yuan loans in January as lenders front-loaded loans on fears of further tightening. M2, the broadest measure of money supply, rose 17.2 percent last month from a year earlier, the People's Bank of China said on ...
Shanghai-based Chinese companies made a combined investment of more than $2.4 billion US dollars abroad in 2010, up 57 percent from the previous year. The city remains a primary base for Chinese offshore investment during the past five years. The latest data from the city's ...
China will begin domestic trading of yuan options against other currencies on April 1st. The move aims to meet market demands of more currency hedging as the yuan becomes more flexible. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange says it will launch trading of so-called ...
Greater demand pushes rent prices higher in the first-tier cities of China after the Spring Festival, the Nanfang Daily reports. Rent for apartments, stores and office buildings in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou all jumped by around 10 percent in mid-February, ...
Shanghai reported a mixed bag of economic figures in January as its industrial production growth moderated but the city's foreign trade performed strongly, the Shanghai Statistics Bureau said Tuesday. But the city is not resting on its laurels after the World Expo 2010 because it ...
The U.S. dollar fell against major currencies in late New York trading on Tuesday as sales data was worse than expected. The U.S. Commerce Department reported Tuesday that retailers' sales rose 0.3 percent in January, lower than analysts expected. The dollar reached to near 84 ...
U.S. stocks closed lower on Tuesday as retail sales inched up just 0.3 percent in January, which was weaker than economists had expected. The Commerce Department said retail sales were up 0.3 percent in January, trailing forecasts for a jump of 0.5 percent. Excluding autos, sales ...
E-commerce replaced online games as the most popular branch for investments in the Chinese Internet market last year, thanks to the booming business to consumer sector, a Beijing-based research firm said Monday. E-commerce accounted for 46 percent of 137 Internet related ...
New home sales plunged in Shanghai in the first 13 days of this month due to the combined effect of the government's successive measures to curb speculation in the property market and the week-long Spring Festival holiday. Sales of 38,000 square meters of new homes, excluding ...
Demand for second-hand Shanghai car plates is soaring since the supply of new ones was reduced and restrictions tightened on plates from outside the city. The price of a second-hand Shanghai car plate price has increased 10 percent since before the Spring Festival - up to 44,000 ...
U.S. stocks closed mixed on Monday after Obama released a 3.73-trillion-dollar budget proposal for fiscal 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama proposed a budget on Monday, according to which the deficit for the current year will increase to 1.65 trillion dollars, a level equal to ...
Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange closed higher on Monday, buoyed up by concerns over Chinese inflation. The most active gold contract for February delivery gained 4.7 dollars per ounce, or 0.35 percent, to settle at 1,365.1 dollars. Market ...
On a chilly weekend throughout Shanghai, the city's first jobs fairs of the year met with a similarly cold response from job hunters. Unlike the crowds seen in front of recruitment stands in previous years, the seats prepared for job applicants at eight jobs fairs have been ...
With the resignation of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, stock markets in the Gulf Arab region did not spark a rally Sunday but ended mixed amid a number of domestic corporate results. In Dubai, the local stock exchange Dubai Financial Market opened bullish but at the end it only ...
Crude oil prices ended higher on Wednesday with U.S. oil settled above 100 U.S. dollars a barrel for the first time since September 2008, as continuing violence in Libya weighted in the markets. New York crude benchmark for April delivery rose 2.60 dollars, or 2.61 percent to ...
China Chinese stocks crept higher Friday on the back of surging Shanghai construction related shares, after local media reported that a series of building projects will start in the city this year. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index increased 0.33 percent, or 9.17 points, to ...
China Chinese stocks closed higher Thursday. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index added 1.59 percent, or 44.10 points, to 2,818.16 points. The Shenzhen Component Index rose 3.07 percent, or 362.59 points, to 12,170.51 points. Hong Kong stocks closed down 455. 41 points, or 1.97 ...
Sales revenue of Beijing's auto market in 2011 might shrink by 60 billion yuan (about 9.1 billion U.S. dollars) due to the city limiting the number of cars purchased each month, a commerce official said Saturday. Car sales revenue will drop to 100 billion yuan in 2011 from last ...
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