China Construction Bank (CCB, SHSE: 601939, and SEHK: 0939), the biggest real estate and mortgage lender in the Chinese mainland, will control a 72 percent stake in Brazil-based Banco Industrial e Commercial S.A. (BIC). It said in the ...
Deal or no deal, the US Congress' dance with default impressed policymakers and investors in China and Japan with just how vulnerable their own economic revival plans are to the next political tantrum on Capitol Hill. The 11th-hour ...
Tags: Dollar Drama, Economy
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced today that Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, and Director of the Initiative on Value and Innovation in Health Care, Brookings Institution, will join the Board of ...
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U.S. crude-oil futures settled 1% lower Friday after the International Energy Agency warned that the U.S. fiscal crisis could harm demand and said supplies are rising faster than previously thought. Light, sweet crude oil for November ...
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ICE Cotton traded firmer with an improving technical picture and climbing open interest throughout most of the week, settling at 87.18. The market’s move higher, China’s holiday, continued uncertainty about cotton quality, and ...
Although there is no firm yardstick to gauge its real impact, China Investment Corp has in many ways been the most representative face of Chinese investment in Europe. Apart from its regular activities such as equity and other investments, ...
Tags: Sovereign Wealth Fund, economy, China
Greg LeMond will be among 58 presenters at The Nantucket Project this weekend. Other speakers will ?include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, Green Mountain Coffee ...
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Oil prices dropped Monday as investors paid close attention to speeches from Federal Reserve officials for clues on monetary policies. New York Fed President William Dudley on Monday defended the Fed's decision not to trim its massive ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Fed Tapering Fears
China is said to be weighing a plan to allow local governments to issue local treasury bonds. Sources said recently that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) planned to allow local governments to issue local treasury bonds, an effort to ease ...
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China's top securities regulator said on Friday that it has approved iron ore futures trading on the Dalian Commodity Exchange. The approval came one week after the relaunch of treasury-bond futures on the China Financial Futures Exchange ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Armstrong World Industries, Inc. announced the pricing of an underwritten secondary public offering of 12,057,382 common shares of the company held by The Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement Trust (the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Armstrong World Industries, Inc. has announced a secondary public offering of 10,057,382 common shares of the company held by The Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement Trust (the "Trust") and Armor TPG ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Independent retailers see rising online sales as a major threat to their business and believe a tax on e-commerce merchants is necessary to level the playing field, according to the Autumn Fair Retail Sentiment Survey 2013. The proportion ...
Tags: online sales, Apparel
A Bitcoin trade group met with representatives of several U.S government agencies Monday as regulators debate whether the?on-line?currency should comply with currency rules. Bitcoin critics have raised questions about the ability to ...
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The Governor of Chaco province of Argentina, announced allocation of 45 million pesos to 900 small farmers, including cotton producers in the region. In addition to the financial assistance, the provincial government would also be ...
Tags: cotton producers