With the pace of U.S. economic growth seen speeding up later this year and next, many business economists expect the Federal Reserve to end its bond purchases this fall or even earlier. The consensus of the 48 economists surveyed by the ...
Tags: U.S.economic, GDP, inflation
Stronger-than-expected growth in China's foreign trade last month has surprised the market and prompted many analysts to look for further hints of underlying economic strength. China's foreign trade volume climbed 10.3 percent year on ...
Tags: China's Trade, trade surplus
Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers vow to increase their 2014 sales by at least 10% from 2013 based on the recent surge in orders that will keep production lines running at full throttle throughout the second quarter. Falcon Machine ...
Tags: machine-tool, car-making machines
For the last year, there's been some guarded optimism that the U.S. hog herd could be on its way to expansion. But, the sustained growth forecast in 2013 never really reached fruition by the year's end that industry-watchers saw coming. ...
Tags: hog herd, Agriculture
For the last year, there's been some guarded optimism that the U.S. hog herd could be on its way to expansion. But, the sustained growth forecast in 2013 never really reached fruition by the year's end that industry-watchers saw coming. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Solar photovoltaic (PV) demand is poised for explosive growth in 2014, and is set to reach 49GW, up from 36GW in 2013, according to findings from Solarbuzz. "The solar PV industry has reached a critical tipping point, with end-market ...
Tags: PV Industry, Solar PV
The LED lighting market in China is expected to double in size from 9.6 percent to 18 percent of all lighting used in the next four years, according to a recent growth forecast from Lux Research. This growth will be spurred by falling ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Market
China's economy is finally rebounding from its deepest slump since the 2008 global crisis but the shaky recovery could be vulnerable to a new downturn in global trade. Growth rose to 7.9 percent in the three months ending in December, up ...
International credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's has announced the lowering of its forecast for US GDP growth for 2014 to 2.6 percent from the previous estimate of 3.1 percent, "amid the increased risks of a government stalemate and ...
Tags: GDP, metallurgy
Yesterday, ADB issued, China's economic growth forecast to 7.7% from 7.6% this year, next year's economic growth forecast to 7.5% from 7.4%. The report points out China's growth will benefit from the infrastructure investment growth in this ...
Oil demand growth in the US this year is likely to exceed that of China's for the first time since the 1990s, skewing overall global demand in favor of developed markets, investment bank Goldman Sachs said in a new report released Friday. ...
Tags: US, China, oil demand
Hugo Boss AG, a luxury fashion and style house based in Metzingen, Germany, backed its goal of attaining planned sales of 3 billion euro in 2015 at an investor day in Hong Kong where the Managing Board of the company was reporting the ...
Tags: Hugo Boss, luxury fashion
Growth is expected to outpace expansion in fresh produce production, reflecting the important role of packaging in the protection, safety assurance, and marketing of fresh fruits and vegetables. The Freedonia Group said plastic containers ...
Tags: Packaging, US market, Surge Ahead
Cisco Systems stunned Wall Street on Wednesday with a gloomy financial forecast it blamed on falling demand in developing countries and transitions in some of its product lines. The networking giant expects its revenue this quarter to ...
The global oil market is currently well supplied but growing demand pressures and ongoing disruptions in some OPEC producing countries could soon reverse a recent spate of softer oil prices, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. ...
Tags: Oil Prices, oil market