According to the related information, the preliminary accounting results of GDP for the first half of 2013 are as follows: Preliminary Accounting Results of GDP for the First Half of 2013 Absolute Value ...
In the first half of 2013, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the Central Party Committee and the State Council have committed to the general tone of making progress while ensuring the ...
Gemalto has published the results of a street survey conducted amongst Dubai residents, revealing an overwhelming appetite for using contactless technologies not only with their banking cards, but also directly from their mobile phones, ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
To implement the "Going Out" strategy mentioned in China's Twelfth Five Year Plan, the China National Textile and Apparel Council organized a conference, on Friday, in Beijing. The officials from the relevant government departments, ...
Tags: Textile Industry, Apparel Industry
MasterCard didn't make a peep earlier this month when word leaked that Beijing had halted the company's transactions in renminbi. Leaked documents didn't show when the payments were terminated, but the central bank effectively stopped the ...
Tags: MasterCard, Foreign Firms, Credit Cards
China edged its way toward a credit crunch last week, spooking investors, businesses, analysts – and perhaps more than anyone – the banks themselves. Liquidity in the country's money market appeared to suddenly dry up after a ...
Tags: Risky Economy, credit crunch
China sold US$2.1 billion in government bonds in the Hong Kong market on Wednesday despite the recent cash crunch in the mainland money market that spooked investors this week, Reuters reported. Demand for the yuan-denominated bonds was ...
Tags: HK Bond Market, cash crunch
Crude oil futures settled slightly higher Tuesday as a pipeline shutdown in Alberta, Canada, and escalating tensions in the Middle East lent the complex a bullish note, amid rising equities markets. NYMEX August crude settled 14 cents ...
Tags: Crude Futures, Crude oil
Social media can make financial institutions seem less dull and better engage customers, according to officials on a panel at the AB+F Retail Financial Services Forum. Engaging customers through social media is a “game ...
Tags: Social Media, Financial Services
China Premier Li Keqiang chaired a State Council executive meeting on June 19, studying the deployment of policies and measures to support economic restructuring, transformation and upgrading. The meeting studies and nailed down policies ...
Tags: economy, private capital
Wall Street plans to hold a simulated cyber-attack against equity markets this month that experts hope will set an example of how industries should test their defences against assailants. Called Quantum Dawn 2, the drill will involve big ...
Tags: Wall Street, Security Defences
U.S. federal prosecutors charged eight people on Wednesday in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud that siphoned money from hacked accounts at banks and financial institutions, laundered it and sent it overseas. The cover page ...
Tags: Cybercrime, US
The US on Friday identified eight petrochemical companies it says are owned or controlled by the government of Iran and are therefore subject to sanctions. The US State Department also sanctioned two companies "for knowingly engaging in a ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil
More than 18 months ago, Google Wallet was launched on the Sprint cellular network amid hoopla that payment-by-smart-phone technology at cashiers nationwide would replace your plastic debit and credit cards. Since then, AT&T, T-Mobile, and ...
Tags: CR Money Minute, Mobile Wallet
India's state-owned gas utility GAIL expects to import 34 spot LNG cargoes in fiscal year 2013-14 (April-March), more than double the 16 spot cargoes it imported in the previous year, to meet demand for the Dabhol LNG terminal and make up ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, gas