Australian business attitudes are upbeat as we head into the year-end holiday trading period. According to Dun & Bradstreet’s September Business Expectations Survey, companies are anticipating increased sales, profits, employee ...
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A May 25 Bloomberg report said that Chinese officials plan to ask their American counterparts during the upcoming eighth round of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue about the chance of a Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate ...
The results from Dun & Bradstreet’s March Business Expectations Survey have highlighted a second consecutive decline in expectations, with businesses issuing subdued forecasts for the three-month period to June 2016, despite reporting ...
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China's economy is going through a series of historic transitions, and recent short-term market volatility will prove temporary, experts attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2016 said on Thursday. The Chinese government ...
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China's real estate sector showed signs of warming in November as new home prices rose on a monthly basis in an increasing number of cities, buoyed by government policies. Of 70 large and medium-sized cities surveyed in November, new home ...
As demand for exports continues to slip and the real estate sector cools, China expects consumption and the service sector to help pick slack. The nationwide shopping spree on Single's Day (Nov. 11) offered solid proof of the spending ...
Greenlots, an open standards-based technology firm for electric vehicle (EV) networks, has teamed up with real estate developers CapitaLand and BMW Group Asia to install additional EV and Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) charging stations in the ...
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Based on the information released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, we can see that China’s coatings market in 2014 grew by around eight percent last year over 2013. And the fact that China’s architectural coatings ...
Investment flows from China to South Korea surged 374 percent last year to $631 million as Chinese companies moved to expand their presence and options in the global market. The figure was announced on Monday by the Mergermarket Group, a ...
Apparel is the largest product category in India, with a share of 22 per cent in the occupied modern retail space of the top seven cities, according to property consultant Knight Frank. The seven cities are Bengaluru, Chennai, ...
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The average time taken for Australian businesses to pay their invoices has fallen to the lowest level since the third quarter of 2007, in further signs that operating conditions have strengthened this year and the business sector’s ...
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This year’s gradually improving business outlook looks set to continue into 2015, with the latest survey of Australian firms revealing that an increasing number expect to lift their sales and profits, sell their goods and services at ...
Speaking at the 48th annual meeting of worldsteel (World Steel Association) held in Moscow on October 6, Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff, chairman of the worldsteel Economics Committee said that with a seven percent negative GDP growth expected ...
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In September this year, the China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) increased to 50.5, higher than the anticipated level of 50.0 and up from August's final reading of 50.2, as announced by the HSBC on September 23. In ...
Shanghai stocks slightly dropped in midday trading, losing 0.22 percent to 2,234.61 points. The decline in the benchmark index was due to falling share prices in glass and wine sectors. The market demand for glass remained low, partly due ...
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