he Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced on Friday it would expand the size of its asset purchasing program while maintaining the same size of the monetary base, in a bid to drive wages higher and boost business spending, two mainstays of the ...
Tags: Bank of Japan Unveils, Increase Wages, Business Spending
The Chinese government Tuesday refrained from adjusting retail oil product prices in line with global crude oil fluctuations for the first time in nearly three years, sending a strong signal to the market that it believes prices may have ...
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China's central bank projected its baseline forecast for 2016 growth at 6.8 percent on Wednesday, expecting the number of positive factors to gradually increase despite downward pressure on the economy. The rate is slightly lower than the ...
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2016 is looking to be the year of soybeans. Chris Hurt, Purdue University agricultural economist, is predicting corn acreage to be 1.5% to 2% lower and soybean acreage to be around 2% higher for the Midwest’s 2016 growing season. With ...
In 2014, in the APAC region alone, the consumption value of LED lamps used in general lighting is expected to reach $2.7 billion, increasing to $6.7 billion in 2019. These are the main conclusions of the latest market analysis by ...
Tags: LED Lamp, general lighting, decorative light
Cinema typically prospers during slowdowns, and insiders think new films will turn box offices to gold, Xu Fan reports. China's box-office chart has seen new records set frequently in recent months. The latest big high-this year's first ...
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Father Francis Li Jianlin has been looking for investment opportunities and health insurance in his spare time, spurred on by a feeling of responsibility for the priests and nuns in his Catholic diocese in Xinxiang, Henan province. ...
Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, today reported consolidated financial results for its third quarter, ending 27 September 2015. Sonoco president and CEO Jack Sanders said: "We are encouraged by the ...
People’s Daily published the signed paper of Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng’s To Cooperate for the Prosperity of Regional Development with the Help of the China-Korea Free Trade Agreement on June 2. The full text follows: ...
Tags: China-South Korea FTA, textile, garment, steels, liquid crystal display
Sales and orders grew on the high street at a much stronger rate than had been anticipated in the year to September, with the robust pace of growth expected to continue next month, according to the CBI’s latest monthly Distributive ...
Tags: Low inflation, wage growth
After conveying disappointing results for the first-quarter of 2015, when lighting-equipment demand was 3.6% below fourth-quarter 2014 demand, the latest NEMA Lighting-Systems Index (LSI) results show that a modest rebound occurred during ...
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China's economic data for September may show a stabilizing economy but they can't prevent the third-quarter growth sliding to as low as 6.6 percent, said analysts ahead of the data's release starting next week. "We expect the upcoming ...
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Pinnacle Foods reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 28, 2015 and raised its guidance for full-year adjusted diluted earnings per share to $1.89 to $1.91, representing the high end of its previous $1.86 to $1.91 ...
Tags: Pinnacle Foods, Grocery, Foods
Despite the recent stock market crashes around the world on the heels of China devaluing the yuan, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has said he doesn't believe that there's a financial crisis looming. "Based on what I've seen ...
According to recent projections compiled before the recent China stock exchange meltdown, Chinese grocery had been set to grow by a third between now and 2020 and reach US$1.5tn per year, according to the UK’s Institute of Grocery ...
Tags: grocery market, smartphones