China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, is estimated to grow by about 1.4 percent in December from a year earlier, the latest report from the Bank of Communications (BOC) said. The National Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: CPI, consumer 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 state of the trade continues to be reported as positive, but less so than in the previous two quarters. Confidence has been resolutely positive since the start of 2013, and respondents had previously improved their reports further ...
Tags: actual balance, Office Supplies
The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), declined to 0.0 per cent for November 2014 (over November 2013), according to the provisional data released by the Office of the Economic Adviser, Ministry of ...
Tags: cord fabric, manmade fibre, Textile
The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry declined 5 percent year on year to 166 points in November and the reading slipped about 5 points from October's index. Jewelry price inflation often reflects heavy promotional activity at the ...
Tags: Jewelry, Jewelry price
The BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index for November 2014 shows that overall shop prices reported deflation for the nineteenth consecutive month, unchanged at 1.9% in November. Non-food deflation slowed marginally to 2.9% in November from 3.1% in ...
Tags: Non-food prices, Furniture
China's consumer prices in November grew by their slowest pace in five years, official data showed on Wednesday, raising the probability of more easing measures by the central bank. China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of ...
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Price of produce in 36 large and medium-sized Chinese cities moved up slightly in the week ending Nov. 30 compared with the previous week, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday. The average price of 18 vegetables experienced a rise of ...
The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry declined 5 percent year on year to 171.35 points in October and the reading slipped about 4 points from September's index. The CPI for watches, meanwhile, rose 2.6 percent to 124.42 points, ...
Tags: Jewelry, Consumer Price
India’s annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), dropped to a five-year low of 1.7 per cent for the month of October, 2014 (over October, 2013), according to the provisional data released by the Office ...
Tags: annual rate of inflation, consumer price index, Apparel
The analyst presentation that De Beers published this week on behalf of Anglo American was as revealing as the company’s much publicized Diamond Insight Report. Whether this was a once-off publication or not, the presentation was ...
China's producer price index (PPI), which measures inflation at wholesale level, dropped 2.2 percent year-on-year in October, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. On a monthly basis, the PPI index contracted 0.4 percent ...
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China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 1.6 percent year on year in October, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Monday. The growth was the same with that of September, which was the lowest since January ...
Tags: consumer price, CPI, Agriculture
Price slumps in the global commodity market continued to allow China to spend less while importing more, helping China save on enormous import bills, latest customs data showed. In the first ten months of this year, China imported 252.6 ...
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U.S. jewelry and watch sales from all retail outlets in September increased 3 percent year on year to $5.521 billion, according to preliminary government figures. As is often the case, the sector's totals for previous months were revised, ...