China's top 100 retailers saw combined sales jump 26.2 percent year on year to 3.37 trillion yuan (544 billion U.S. dollars) in 2014, an industry association official said Thursday. Wang Yao, vice president of China General Chamber of ...
Tags: e-commerce, Online sales, online-sales growth, physical stores
GfK’s UK Consumer Confidence Index has increased six points to 7 in June. All of the five measures used to calculate the Index saw increases this month. Joe Staton, head of Market Dynamics at GfK, says: “We’re seeing a ...
After spending two years on Beijing's monthly ballot for car license plates, seen as the best way of curbing traffic congestion in the capital, my neighbor Jiao Wen finally decided to go electric to avoid what was starting to look like long ...
Tags: EV Sector, electric vehicle
Despite an Australian economy growing at a moderate 2.3 per cent according to March quarter figures released by the ABS this month, the latest data on trade payments reveals that businesses are paying their invoices at the fastest rate on ...
Tags: Australian economy, payment times
Chinese stocks and economic growth have long had little to do with each other. Between 2010 and early 2014, when China boasted the world's fastest-growing economy, its stockmarket was consistently among the world's worst performers. Since ...
Tags: Stockmarket, Economy
China's gasoil exports hit a 10-month high in April at 460,000 mt, which was also 35.3% higher year on year, General Administration of Customs data released Thursday showed. Despite the jump in April exports, the total outflow in the ...
Tags: Gasoil Exports, Gasoil Imports
With an annualized 2.4% from the Q3 of 2014, Japan's economy grew faster than expected Q1 of 2015. Japan GDP annual growth rate initially increases from 0.5% to 2.4 % for 5 quarters and then declines for three quarters up 2014 Q4. Core ...
Tags: GDP Growth, inflation rate
Australian wine exports rose by 3.6 per cent in volume and 3.9 per cent in value of wine exports in the 12 months to end of March 2015, according to the latest findings from the Australian Grape and Wine Authority (AGWA). Australian wine ...
Tags: Wine Exports, Wine
The total sales of Khadi Gramodyog Bhawan, for the period from April 13 to April 28, 2015 increased over 60 per cent as compared to corresponding period of previous year, according to a government statement. The sales figure was ...
Tags: readymade garments, garments
Most trade analysts expected corn planting to have reached just shy of the halfway point by Sunday, but USDA's Crop Progress report released Monday shows that point came and went quickly in the last week, with planting sitting at 55%. ...
Tags: Corn Planting, corn, Soybean prices
Shoppers Stop Ltd (SSL), an India based operator of various retail formats reported a revenue jump of 9 per cent from the year ago quarter in the fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2015. In a press release, SSL said it recorded a ...
Tags: Shoppers Stop, retail formats
First-quarter steel exports surged 40.7 percent to 25.78 million metric tons as mills responded to weak domestic demand and falling prices, the China Iron and Steel Association said on Wednesday. "Although domestic steel companies face ...
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Another week of spring planting's come and gone, and the last 7 days saw farmers make a much bigger stride with corn planting than the previous 2 weeks, and that speedy pace is expected to last through at least the next week, forecasters ...
Tags: Corn, Agriculture
China imported 1.98 million mt of natural gas via pipeline in March, 41.3% higher than the same month last year, detailed data from the General Administration of Customs showed Thursday. The customs department reports natural gas trade ...
Tags: natural gas, gas pipeline
Falling after a national payday, experts predict consumers to be out in force this Good Friday and Easter Monday. As Easter weekend approaches, footfall at shopping centres, retail parks and high streets is forecast to jump 4.7 per cent ...
Tags: Easter weekend, Payday, Toys