On April 28, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in mid-April (Apr. 11-20) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.749 million mt, up 0.1 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel, Crude Steel, Iron
Taiwan's industrial production index in March this year increased by 3.05 percent as compared to March 2013 and was up 18.29 percent month on month, according to the country's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). Meanwhile, Taiwan's ...
In April this year, the China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) increased to 48.3, up from March's final reading of 48.0, as announced by the HSBC on April 23. Since January this year, HSBC PMI has been below 50 for ...
Tags: PMI, domestic demand
As of April 21, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 108.41 million mt, indicating a decrease of 520,000 mt or 0.48 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, the ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese Ports
In March this year, of 70 major Chinese cities surveyed, 56 cities saw higher prices in the new house market, four cities witnessed lower prices, while new house prices in the remaining 10 cities were unchanged, all compared to February ...
China’s gross domestic product rose 7.4% year over year in the first quarter–down from 7.7% growth in the fourth quarter of last year, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday. The increase was more than a ...
Tags: gross domestic product, economy
China’s decelerating economy is weighing on the country’s small businesses, which account for 60% of its gross domestic product. According to a survey by China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce, 60% of ...
In March this year, the average aggregate daily crude steel output in China amounted to 2.2661 million mt, up 2.2 percent compared to the average daily figure recorded in the January-February period this year and constituting a new record ...
Tags: Crude Steel, NBS
In March of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 6.8322 trillion ($1.115 trillion), up 17.6 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ...
Tags: Fixed Asset, rural households
China's gross domestic product (GDP) indicated a year-on-year increase of 7.4 percent to RMB 12.8213 trillion ($2.1 trillion) in the first quarter of the current year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on April 16. ...
In March this year, total real estate investments in China amounted to RMB 1.5339 trillion ($0.25 trillion), up 16.8 percent year on year, with this growth rate down 2.5 percentage points compared to the year-on-year increase rate recorded ...
In March this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.8 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on April 16, with this growth rate 0.2 percentage points higher than that ...
Tags: Industrial Output, finished steel
China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 2.3 percent year on year and was down 0.3 percent month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on April 11. Meanwhile, in March Chinese industrial ...
Hiwin leads Taiwan's machine tool makers in 2013 earnings. (Photo of company chairman and chief executive officer, Eric Chuo, courtesy of Hiwin) Hiwin Technologies Corp.,?a Taiwan-based maker of?precision components for machinery, has ...
Tags: taiwan, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, precision machinery
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's non-manufacturing sector dropped 0.5 percentage points in March from a month earlier to 54.5 percent, data showed on Thursday. The index tracks activity in a number of sectors, including ...
Tags: China's PMI, Non-Manufacturing PMI