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Beijing Stores Cut Gold Prices on Slump

Oct 11, 2016

The biggest weekly slump in the global gold price led Beijing's gold stores to cut their prices for the first time this year. The price in Beijing declined by 10 yuan ($1.5) per gram on Sunday. This was the first cut, following six earlier ...

Tags: Gold, Gold Prices

Global Gold Demand up 21% in Q1 to 1,290 Mt

May 14, 2016

Global gold demand totaled 1,290 mt in the first quarter, up 21% from 1,070 mt a year earlier, as the biggest quarterly inflow into exchange-traded funds since 2009 offset a steep decline in jewelry demand, the World Gold Council said in a ...

Tags: gold demand, gold

PBC Injects More Money Into Market

Apr 3, 2016

China's central bank continued to pump money into the market to ease a liquidity strain this week. The People's Bank of China (PBC) conducted 395 billion yuan (61.16 billion U.S. dollars) of seven-day reverse repurchase agreements (repo) ...

Tags: liquidity strain, PBC

Call for Potent Market Supervision After Tumultuous Year

Dec 31, 2015

Economists and insiders are calling for more effective goverment supervision as a year of wild swings in China's stock market is coming to an end. China fought an unprecedented and costly war in 2015 to contain wide stock market ...

Tags: Potent Market Supervision

China Extends Trading Hours for Interbank Forex Market

Dec 24, 2015

China is to extend the trading hours of the interbank forex market by seven hours and allow more foreign entities into the market, according to a Wednesday statement by the People's Bank of China (PBOC). From Jan. 4, the closing time for ...

Tags: Extends Trading, Forex Market

China, Russia Sign 30 Cooperation Documents

Dec 18, 2015

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meet the press after the 20th China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 17, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] China and Russia signed ...

Tags: oil, gas, financial cooperation

Monetary War of Competitive Currency Depreciation

Sep 21, 2015

The recent drop in the exchange rate between the Chinese yuan (RMB) and U.S. dollar, the so-called "black Monday" on China's stock market and successive steep fall of the primary commodity market allowed much of the world to accuse China of ...

Tags: stock market, RMB depreciation

RBI Governor Rules out Financial Crisis

Aug 28, 2015

Despite the recent stock market crashes around the world on the heels of China devaluing the yuan, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has said he doesn't believe that there's a financial crisis looming. "Based on what I've seen ...

Tags: stock market crashes, yuan devaluing

Economies Pushing More Trade in RMB

May 25, 2015

South Korea, which sends around a quarter of its exports to China, is one of the few countries in the world to run a trade surplus with the Asian giant. Both countries want more of this trade to be done in yuan, which would make trade ...

Tags: trade surplus, Chinese currency

China Walks The Economic Tightrope of Balancing Steady Growth

Mar 13, 2015

As China walks the economic tightrope of balancing steady growth, facilitating restructuring and combating deflation risks, Zhou said there may be room for flexibility despite consistent championing of a prudent monetary policy. Policy ...

Tags: Central Bank, China's GDP

The Response of Electronics Industry to Realities of Small Scale with Innovation

Mar 2, 2015

In previous posts, I examined the high-tech industry in significant detail by picking a representative sample of leading systems, software, and semiconductor companies. Taken as a group, the selected firms serve the full range of ...

Tags: Electronics Industry, Electronics

China's New Yuan Loans Rise in January

Feb 23, 2015

The Chinese currency has seen sharp volatility against the US dollar this week as a strengthening dollar stokes worries of the yuan's depreciation. The yuan continued to decline against the dollar on Wednesday with its spot exchange rate ...

Tags: China's New Yuan, Chinese currency

China Makes Effort to Stabilize Yuan Amid Depreciation

Feb 5, 2015

China's central bank seems to have moved to stabilize the yuan despite mounting market sentiment that the currency has been toward the upper limit of its daily trading band for the past week. The reference rate the People's Bank of China ...

Tags: China's central bank, mounting market

New York Cotton Futures Moved Slightly Lower This Week

Oct 21, 2014

As December declined 38 points to close at 63.56 cents/lb, while March shed 56 points to close at 61.71 cents/lb, New York cotton futures moved slightly lower this week. Another round of severe weather in the Delta and Southeast ...

Tags: Cotton Futures, cash cotton

Economists Downwardly Revised Their World Trade Growth Estimate for 2015 to 4 Percent

Oct 8, 2014

Economists at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have downwardly revised their world trade growth estimate for 2015 to 4 percent from the previous estimate of 5.3 percent. For 2014 also, the WTO has reduced its world trade growth ...

Tags: world trade growth, GDP growth

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