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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China's power use, a key barometer of economic activity, ended a two-month falling streak in November by edging up 0.6 percent from one year earlier as the economy showed signs of stabilization, according to data released Wednesday. ...
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Poland is planning to sell its hard coal stockpiles to Ukraine in order to raise cash to inject liquidity into the country's struggling state-owned coal miners, development minister Mateusz Morawiecki, said Monday. "There is a coal ...
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Juan Jose Aranguren, the next energy minister of Argentina, said Friday he will seek to rebuild investor confidence in the country by improving business conditions after taking office December 10. "We need, as in other sectors of economic ...
Lost revenue and frustrated customers are all too common for Australian SME who don’t successfully manage post and shipping services at Christmas, research commissioned by FedEx Express has found. The poll of 1,000 consumers and 400 ...
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In the first three quarters of 2015, China’s outward investment and cooperation witnessed a rapid development. Nonfinancial direct investment overseas reached US$ 87.3 billion, up 16.5% year on year; the newly signed foreign contract ...
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In January-October 2015, the foreign investment in China maintained the sound momentum of the first three quarters. Official from the Department of Foreign Investment Administration of MOFCOM pointed out that the foreign investment in China ...
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The 11thseminar of the series of seminars called the “Brilliant 12th Five Year” was held on October 19 in Beijing. Our Journalist interviewed the reporter, China International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce ...
Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $2.2 trillion in the next decade by pursuing projects that could be uneconomic in the face of international action to limit climate change, UK-based financial think-tank Carbon Tracker Initiative ...
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China's steel production capacity is likely to peak in 2016 as capacity is eliminated, gradually outpacing additions, Fitch Ratings has predicted. The rating agency expects China's steel production capacity to increase to about 1.17 ...
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China's coal consumption continued to decrease in the first ten months this year, according to the China National Coal Association (CNCA) on Tuesday. Coal consumption hit 3.23 billion tonnes during the January-October period, down 4.7 ...
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Coopers Brewery, one of Australia’s remaining independent commercial beer producers, has managed to increase its yearly profits despite dropping beer consumption amongst Australians. Coopers after-tax profits for the financial year ...
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As car manufacturers continue to introduce new technologies in their vehicles, blind-spot warning systems and back-up cameras are the technologies mature drivers are most willing to adopt1, according to new research by The Hartford and the ...
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IC distributor WPG expects its revenues to decline 4-6% to NT$129-135 billion (US$3.99-4.18 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2015 with a gross margin of 3.95-4.1% and an operating margin of 1.4-1.6%. WPG also reported net profits of ...
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Touch panel maker TPK has announced net loss of NT$19.4 billion (US$600 million), or loss per share of NT$55.15 for the third quarter of 2015. The operating loss was primarily attributable to one-off asset impairment charges on ...
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