The future looks bright for electric cars in China amid rapidly fluctuating gasoline prices and huge investments by the government to promote use of clean energy, industry sources said on Monday. However, inadequate battery technologies ...
Tags: Electric Cars, Battery Production
Chinese mainland stocks declined as the country's leader hints at an economic 11-year-low growth target. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell by 0.95 percent or 31.06 points to 3,248.48 points on Thursday. The Shenzhen Component ...
Tags: Chinese stocks, Hang Seng Index
PetroChina Co Ltd, the nation's leading oil and natural gas producer, said on Thursday it expects a 20-billion-yuan ($3.3 billion) annual profit boost from the government's natural gas price reform. That inflow will further buoy the ...
Tags: PetroChina, natural gas producer
The S&P/ASX200 has closed down 2 per cent at 5062.4, as slower Chinese manufacturing activity in May combined with signs that the US Federal Reserve could start rolling back its bond-buying program to send the local sharemarket to its ...
A SHOCK contraction in Chinese manufacturing and the prospect that the US Federal Reserve could soon unwind its quantitative easing measures rocked local markets yesterday, pushing the Australian dollar close to an annual low and wiping ...
THE dollar tumbled to its lowest level in eight months after China announced new measures to cool property prices, fuelling speculation that demand for Australia's commodities might weaken. The Aussie also fell after local data showed ...
Tags: economy, real estate
The Australian dollar tumbled to its lowest level in eight months in Asian trading yesterday after China announced new measures to cool property prices, fuelling speculation that demand for Australia's commodities may weaken. The dollar ...
Tags: Australian dollar, commodities, trading
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 has closed down 2.3 per cent at 4980.1, its biggest fall in nine months. More than $36 billion was wiped from the value of Australian shares in the market's largest one-day decline since May 18, pulling back from ...
Tags: Stocks, benchmark, Australian shares
Asian stocks rose, with a regional benchmark index headed for its biggest monthly rally since September 2010, as Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said major progress was made in debt-swap talks and Japan’s industrial production ...
Tags: market view, factory robots
Chinese rebar futures rebounded on Wednesday from their lowest in more than five weeks, supported by an Asian market rally and a rise in the country's steel exports for the first time in four months + SHFE Jan rebar up 0.5% at 4,790 yuan ...
Tags: steel