New orders to U.S. production plants soared a record 10.5 percent in July on a 74 percent bookings spike in the volatile transportation sector. The somewhat misleading double-digit gain was propelled by an eye-popping 317.3 percent surge in ...
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According to the flash estimates released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, during the second quarter this year gross domestic product (GDP) remained stable in the euro area and increased by 0.2 percent in the ...
Recent soft economic data including falling property prices have many investors worried about a growth slowdown in China, but Platinum Asset Management sees plenty of investment opportunities. The funds manager said in a note to investors ...
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After a bleak start to the year, the U.S. economy grew at a brisk annual rate of 4.2 percent in the April-June quarter, the government said Thursday, slightly faster than it had first estimated. The upward revision supported expectations ...
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In the second quarter of the current year, South Africa's seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.6 percent quarter on quarter, according to the detailed statistics released by Statistics South Africa. South Africa's ...
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TAIPEI — Taiwan’s economy expanded at its fastest pace in six quarters in the three months through June. The pickup is attributable to not only growth in electronics exports but also rising public- and private-sector capital ...
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TAIPEI — Taiwan’s Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics has raised the official national growth forecast in the light of robust global demand for mobile devices and computer components, stronger consumer ...
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s economy has grown to surpass the peak it reached in 2008, before the global banking crisis caused a deep recession, official figures showed Friday. The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) –The government on Tuesday cut its forecast for Japan’s economic growth in fiscal 2014 to 1.2 percent from 1.4 percent in real terms amid lingering fears that the April 1 consumption tax hike, the first in 17 ...
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The Japanese economy shrank an annualized real 6.8 percent in the April to June quarter, falling at its fastest pace since the March 2011 disaster, apparently due to the consumption tax hike on April 1, the government said Wednesday. The ...
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BASF's business developed positively in the second quarter of 2014. At €18.5 billion, sales rose by 1% compared with the same period of the previous year. "This was largely the result of higher sales volumes in our chemicals business, ...
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Li & Fung Limited, the world’s leading multinational consumer goods sourcing, logistics, and distribution group, is considering investment in the proposed Textile City which is to come up at the Export Processing Zone complex in Athi ...
China's apparent oil demand* in June turned directions from May and climbed 2.7% versus the same month a year ago to 41.94 million metric tons (mt) or an average 10.25 million barrels per day (b/d), according to a just-released Platts ...
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China and the United States signed a package of agreements on energy efficiency projects here on Wednesday, a move expected to deepen energy cooperation between the world's two largest economies. The deals include a program of distributed ...
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On June 10, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) announced that Turkey's gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of the current year grew by 14.8 percent to TRY 407.31 billion ($184.18 billion) in current prices and by 4.3 ...
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