The world's stock markets are spiralling downwards. The U.S. equity market fell 10 percent last month. Investor terminology calls this a "correction" not a crash. But prospects don't look good. Big investors, banks and financial ...
Tags: Economic Crisis, investment banks
Power supply shipments are expected to grow strongly beginning 2016 as demand for industrial power supplies starts growing rapidly and sales of consumer power supplies also start picking up. The growth is expected to help power supply ...
Tags: Power Supply, Delta Electronics
China's central bank on Tuesday pumped the biggest amount of funds since September into the financial system in open market operations in an effort to ease a liquidity strain. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) conducted seven-day reverse ...
China continued to see a deficit in foreign service trade in November but the volume has narrowed, data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) showed on Wednesday. The deficit came in at 15.6 billion U.S. dollars, ...
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China's service sector activity expanded strongly in December, a monthly survey showed Friday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector came in at 54.4 in December, up from 53.6 in November and also the ...
Tags: Non-Manufacturing PMI, PMI
China's recent moves to defend its sovereign territories in the South China Sea make sense, a U.S. scholar has noted. China has described the issue in the Nansha Islands as a "core interest" because it involves sovereign territory, and it ...
Tags: South China Sea
Taiwan consumers have continued to show lower expectations about future income and investment as well as general economic situation for the eighth-consecutive month in December, said a survey publicized Monday. The consumer confidence ...
Tags: Consumer Confidence, Keep Lowering
China's economic growth is expected to be unchanged in the fourth quarter of this year, but an improvement is still distant due to property weakness and excess capacity, according to the latest report from UBS. The Swiss banking group ...
Chinese legislators on Thursday urged intensified efforts to keep local government debt under control, warning against potential default in the future. Legislators made the comments when attending a panel discussion of the ongoing ...
Tags: Local Gov't Debt
China will continue to actively destock its massive property inventory over concerns that the ailing housing market could derail the economy. Along with cutting overcapacity and tackling debt, destocking will be a major task in 2016, ...
China's real estate sector showed signs of warming in November as new home prices rose on a monthly basis in an increasing number of cities, buoyed by government policies. Of 70 large and medium-sized cities surveyed in November, new home ...
Yesterday's U.S. interest rate adjustment narrows the scope for China to balance currency stability with economic growth. The U.S. Federal Reserve raised the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, the first increase ...
Tags: U.S.Rate, China's Policy
China's retail sales of consumer goods will see annual growth of 10.7 percent this year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) forecast Thursday. The domestic consumer market was stable this year and it gained momentum in recent months, said MOC ...
Foreign buyers look at motorbikes during the 118th China Import and Export Fair, also known as Canton Fair, in Guangzhou city, south China's Guangdong province, 15 October 2015. [File Photo: ImagineChina] Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao ...
Tags: motorbikes, Foreign Trade, Canton Fair
China's iron ore importers need to keep a close eye on the country's steel mills as they mull output cuts and shutdowns amid a year-end credit crunch, the China Iron and Steel Association said Thursday. Prices of iron ore derivatives ...