ICE Cotton futures gained almost 100 pts this week basis the N4 to settle at 93.25 c/lbs. Thursday was the soon-to-expire K4 contract's First Notice Day, which was preceded by a large drop in OI via EFP and EFS transactions, rumored to be ...
Singapore's gross domestic product grew 5.1% on the year in the first quarter of 2014, according to preliminary estimates released Monday by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. On a quarter-on-quarter, seasonally adjusted annualized ...
Copper cathode inventories at China's Shanghai Futures Stock Exchange warehouses rose for the eight straight week to 207,320 mt as of March 7, up 4.6% week on week, according to SHFE data released late Friday. SHFE copper cathode stocks ...
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Retailers have warmly welcomed today's Australian Bureau of Statistics trade figures for January, which showed the sector made a solid start to 2014, writes Trevor Evans from the National Retail Association. The 1.2 per cent increase ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The Ifo Indicator for the world economic climate continued to rise. Assessments of the current economic situation were more positive than three months ago. The six-month economic outlook remains bright. The world economy is expected to gain ...
Tags: Service
HONG KONG, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department (CSD) released the external merchandise trade statistics Monday, according to which the value of total exports of goods rose by 3.6 percent in 2013 over 2012, and ...
Tags: CSD, U.S.Federal Reserve, exports
As the surprisingly rough start of trading this year suggests, continued gains in Japanese stocks are premised on a delicate balance of factors. For the first time in six years, the market did not ring in the New Year on Monday, the ...
Tags: Global Economy, Japan
During the six-month period from April 1 through September 30, 2013, the global economy showed modest recovery trend, with the signs of bottoming out in Europe and continued increase in employment in U.S.. The Chinese economy by contrast, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The United Nations said, the global economy will be better over the next two years and grow by 3.0% in 2014, also still faces some uncertainty factors and downside risk. The main risk is the US exit the quantitative easing monetary policy ...
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Japan's economy will grow 1.4 percent in fiscal 2014 on the back of healthy domestic demand, amid inflation of 1.2 percent — excluding the effects of the consumption tax hike in April, the government projected Saturday. The ...
The best scenario for the Chinese economy in 2014 would be to achieve 7.8 percent GDP growth, a major think tank said on Monday. That could be obtained if all the recently proposed reform initiatives are carried out and the global market ...
ICE Cotton lost 100 pts on the week to close at 77.35 basis the H4 contract, although it was a much more interesting week than the final price action would suggest. Z3 First Notice Day was today and, after the Z/H spread dropped to nearly ...
China's central bank said on Tuesday that it will continue its hands-off stance on the money market, as it maintains a "stable" monetary policy that facilitates the nation's essential structural reforms. The central bank "will neither ...
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China's independent teapot refineries in eastern Shandong province have significantly expanded their capacities in the last few years ahead of an end-2013 deadline set by the government to eliminate smaller plants. In an effort to cool ...
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Reacting to the Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy Statement 2013-14, Dr A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, stated that, “The synergistic efforts of all the stakeholders including Govt. has resulted in the average export growth of ...
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