As China walks the economic tightrope of balancing steady growth, facilitating restructuring and combating deflation risks, Zhou said there may be room for flexibility despite consistent championing of a prudent monetary policy. Policy ...
Tags: Central Bank, China's GDP
The Indian textile and apparel industry will clock double digit growth rates of between 8 to 12 per cent or even more in the next fiscal, a top official at textile major Raymond said. Sanjay Behl, CEO at the lifestyle business of ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Textile
China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, grew 1.4 percent year on year in February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Tuesday. The stronger-than-expected reading quickened from the 0.8-percent gain in ...
Tags: CPI, February Inflation
China's producer price index (PPI), which measures inflation at the wholesale level, declined a record 4.8 percent year on year in February amid weak domestic demand, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday. The ...
China unveiled its economic growth target for 2015 Thursday, putting an end to months of speculation.[Special coverage] The target, as expected, was lowered to "around 7 percent," a level not seen since 2004 and 0.5 percentage points ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Growth
The Chinese economy is confronted with more difficulties than anticipated in 2014, but it has scored more achievements than expected, said Xu Shaoshi, minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top ...
Monetary policy decisions in the US and Europe have amplified uncertainties for China and the rest of the world. China's consumer price index rose by a scant 0.8 percent in January, down from a 1.5 percent increase in December and marking ...
Virtually all the indicators, from manufacturing activity to trade data, point to weakening. Expectations of an immanent reduction in the real interest rate have never been higher, despite the central bank's insistence on reining in ...
Tags: economic growth, trade data
China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 0.8 percent year on year in January, the slowest rise in more than five years, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Tuesday. Food prices, which account for nearly ...
Tags: consumer price index, CPI
Each month, North Coast Research surveys a large sample of paint retailers throughout the U.S. to get a sense for current business trends. Please note that of the three primary architectural coatings channels (paint stores, home centers ...
Tags: Coatings Industry, paint stores, home centers, Construction
The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry dropped 5.1 percent year on year to 161.75 points in December, which was about 4 points lower than November's reading and the lowest since July 2010. The average jewelry CPI for 2014 slipped 4 ...
The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), stood at 0.11 per cent for December 2014 (over December 2013), according to the provisional data released by the Office of the Economic Adviser, Ministry of ...
Tags: cotton yarn, tyre cord fabric, woollen textiles, Textile
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, has reduced the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points from 8.0 per cent to 7.75 per cent with immediate effect. Consequently, ...
Tags: liquidity adjustment facility, banking system, Textile
UK retail sales declined by 0.4%, on a like-for-like basis from December 2013, when they had increased 0.4% on the preceding year, finds the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. On a total basis, sales were up 1%, against a 1.8% rise in ...
Tags: home categories, Furniture
Overall shop prices reported deflation for the 20th consecutive month, decelerating to 1.7% in December, after reporting deflation of 1.9% in November, according to the latest BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index. On a 12-month average basis, the ...
Tags: input costs, Shop Price Index, Furniture