China will stabilize its property market this year, with tailored, market-based policies to guide "stable and healthy development," according to the government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang Thursday.[Special coverage] ...
West Bengal based and since long ailing, Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL) is expected to reopen its plant as lenders have agreed to infuse fresh funds into the loss making company. After Purnendu Chatterjee, chairman of The Chatterjee ...
Tags: technical snag, Textile
China will relax restrictions on banks' yuan trading from next year, in a small but significant move toward relaxing its capital controls. The changes will replace daily caps on banks' foreign exchange positions with weekly limits, and ...
Tags: Yuan Trading, restrictions
China's economy is likely to expand at a slower pace of 7 percent in 2015 and 7.3 percent this year, a government think tank said in a report on Monday. Due to factors such as overcapacity in some manufacturing industries, the country's GDP ...
Tags: China Economy, home price
The reduction of bank credit available to the diamond industry is a game changer that will influence the market for many years to come. Therefore, this column has chosen bank credit as its most important story of 2014, rising above other ...
Tags: diamond industry, diamond market
The World Diamond Conference that took place last week in New Delhi, India, created a buzz in the industry that, frankly, needed a bit of a pick-up considering the state of the market. It not often that two heads of state attend a diamond ...
Tags: Diamond Trade, Arts
Firm's first successful loan recipients have all been music-related, but AIM is now welcoming applications from toy and game inventors. AIM Start Ups, an official delivery partner for the Government-funded Start Up Loans scheme, is ...
Tags: Toy Inventors, Toys
Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute, in conjunction with partner Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, has issued VDE Quality Tested (QT) Certification to cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film ...
Tags: Solar Energy, Certification
The Consumer Action Law Centre has welcomed the Competition Policy Review Draft Report and its emphasis ‘on protecting competition and not competitors.’ But Consumer Action will be asking the review’s panellists to ...
Tags: energy market, Consumer Action Law
Demand for new homes fell slightly in July, the first monthly decline since January 2013, while the supply of new properties coming onto the market increased for the second consecutive month, according to the July RICS Residential Market ...
Tags: UK, Furniture, Furnishing
Specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has signed a new US$125m senior secured multi-currency revolving syndicated credit facility that will replace its existing US$100m senior secured ...
Tags: 5N Plus, Electrical, Electronics
Pacific Vector Holdings Inc., which owns actions sports brands and retail stores, is liquidating its three subsidiaries through voluntary petitions for Chapter 7 bankruptcy as a result of its financial losses, defaults by certain lenders ...
The World Bank Group’s political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) will work in collaboration with Turkish flexible packaging company Elif Global to expand the latter’s ...
The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association's (ELFA) Monthly Leasing and Finance Index (MLFI-25), which reports economic activity from 25 companies representing a cross section of the $827 billion equipment finance sector, showed their ...
Burlington Stores, Inc. a nationally recognized off-price retailer of high-quality, branded apparel at everyday low prices, announced the launch of a debt refinancing transaction and provided updated comparable store sales guidance for the ...
Tags: Burlington Stores, Apparel, Accessories