China's real estate market, widely scrutinized for its significance to the world's second largest economy, has shown glimmering signs of bottoming out in big cities. The property market remains largely anemic, but a string of indicators ...
China's manufacturing business activity slightly expanded in May, indicated by a Purchasing Managers Index reading of 50.2, up from 50.1 in April, according to official data. The reading has remained above 50, the separation between ...
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China's service sector activity expanded in May, but at a slower pace, an official monthly survey showed on Monday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector fell to 53.2 in May, down from 53.4 for April, ...
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China's manufacturing business activity continued improving in May, with an important index remaining in expansion territory, official data showed on Monday. The manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI), a key measure of factory ...
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Industrial restructuring, growth in services good indicators of improving conditions, say experts Positive signs have started to emerge in China's economy since the second quarter, suggesting deepened industrial restructuring amid rapid ...
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Photo courtesy of the ABC. The seasonally adjusted Wage Price Index (WPI) rose 0.5 per cent in the March quarter 2015 and 2.3 per cent over the last year, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ...
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The exports of textiles and garments from Pakistan earned US$ 10.207 billion in the first nine months of fiscal year 2014-15 that began on July 1, 2014, according to the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. However, ...
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Food retail in Australia is among the better-performing retail sectors contributing to only a modest rise is sales figures in February 2015. The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) said the seasonally adjusted rise (0.7 percent ...
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Based on the information released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, we can see that China’s coatings market in 2014 grew by around eight percent last year over 2013. And the fact that China’s architectural coatings ...
The revenue of China's logistics sector rose 6.9 percent year on year in 2014, driven by the online retail sales boom, new data showed on Friday. The total revenue of the sector topped 7.1 trillion yuan ($1.16 trillion) last year, ...
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China's economic growth slowed to 7 percent in the first quarter of 2015, down from 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Wednesday. The latest figure was better than the forecasts by ...
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Despite concerns over lethargic industrial output and increasing downward pressure in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015, growth in China's key emergent sectors fed positive sentiment. Industrial output in China grew 6.4 percent year on year ...
China's fixed asset investment rose 13.5 percent from a year earlier to 7.75 trillion yuan (1.26 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first quarter of 2015, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. The pace of increase slowed further ...
China's consumer spending posted a double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2015, despite mounting pressures the country is facing. China's retail sales rose 10.6 percent year on year in the first three months to 7.07 trillion yuan ...
China's industrial profits for the first two months of the year declined 4.2 percent year on year, narrowing from the 8-percent decrease seen last December. Profits of Chinese industrial businesses hit 745.24 billion yuan (121.5 billion ...