China's investment in Africa has increased 30-fold since 2005, a commerce official said Thursday. According Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian, who spoke at a press conference in Beijing Thursday, the investment was divided amongst ...
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THE sharemarket recovered strongly from a six-month low,with the resources sector leading gains after the People's Bank of China vowed to prevent a credit crunch in Australia's biggest trading partner and the world's second-largest economy. ...
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In recent years there has been a sharp drop in the number of people employed in Zimbabwe’s textile and clothing sector, and the Government is now introducing a cluster based concept to put the industry back on track. Around ...
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Following a sharp fall in 2009, EU27 international trade in goods with Russia has grown strongly since then to reach record levels in 2012. After falling from 105 billion euro in 2008 to 66 bn in 2009, EU27 exports to Russia have risen ...
The Australian dollar is slugging it out with the Syrian pound for the title of world's worst-performing currency. Once the darling of foreign-exchange traders, the Aussie has been out of favour since April 12. According to National ...
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GS1 US has introduced two new readiness programs to help companies in the food industry implement and improve product traceability processes by leveraging GS1 Standards: the Seafood Traceability Readiness Program and Dairy, Deli, Bakery ...
According to the data provided by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat), in the first four months of this year, there was no ferrous scrap among the most exported products from Georgia to Turkey, the country's main trading ...
LASER 2013: Laser market "at record high" – analyst 22 May 2013 …but global markets diverge and reflect exchange rate swings, says Optech Consulting. On the up: The global market for laser materials processing systems. The ...
The dollar remained below parity with the greenback as speculation about a winding back of US quantitative easing buoyed the American currency. The Australian dollar fell below 100 US cents shortly after 9am AEST today, repeating its ...
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Chinese economic policy and an improving US economy appear to have achieved what the Reserve Bank couldn't this week: taking the wind out of Australia's plucky currency, which fell to 11-month lows in early trading yesterday and is expected ...
The sharemarket surged to its highest closing level in almost five years yesterday, with the materials sector leading relatively broad-based gains after China reported stronger than expected trade data, Wall Street hit record highs and spot ...
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The dollar hit two-month lows after the central bank surprised economists by cutting interest rates to record lows and warned that the high exchange rate is continuing to act as a brake on growth. The Reserve Bank of Australia defied most ...
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Mexican National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO) reported that last year steel imports from countries without trade agreements grew 170 percent. In its recent report "Steel on figures," Canacero said that "So far in 2013, ...
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The European Commission launched an investigation on Saturday into industry claims that Chinese makers of solar glass benefit from illegal subsidies, notching up another case against its No. 2 trading partner. The inquiry follows a ...
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According to the data provided by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat), in the first quarter of this year, there is no ferrous scrap among the most exported products from Georgia to Turkey, the country's main trading partner. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy