The supply-side structural reform to improve all-factor productivity will help China gather future growth steam, according to the country's finance minister. Despite heavy downward economic pressure, the Chinese economy is still resilient ...
Tags: Structural Reform, capital inputs
he Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced on Friday it would expand the size of its asset purchasing program while maintaining the same size of the monetary base, in a bid to drive wages higher and boost business spending, two mainstays of the ...
Tags: Bank of Japan Unveils, Increase Wages, Business Spending
Locational marginal prices for November in New York were the lowest since the New York Independent System Operator began managing the transmission grid in 1999, Rana Mukerji, senior vice president of market structures, said Wednesday during ...
Tags: natural gas, Power Prices
Listed lenders from China may see zero or negligible profit growth next year, with some likely to incur marginal losses, a new report said on Monday. The nonperforming loans ratio, which measures bad loans as a percentage of total loans, ...
Tags: Uneasy Outlook, loans ratio
Dun & Bradstreet’s latest Business Expectations Survey indicates a fairly subdued outlook for the first quarter of 2016, as results continue to fall short of expectations. As the new year approaches, businesses are reporting lowered ...
Brazilian iron ore miner Samarco may be out of iron ore pellets within three weeks following a fatal tailings dam collapse last week, a source familiar with the company said Monday. An indefinite stoppage could affect global pellet ...
Tags: Samarco, iron ore miner, coals
Roy Morgan Research has found that one-third of the Australian population buy at least one chocolate bar in an average four week period. Supermarkets are by far the country’s favourite place to purchase chocolate bars with almost ...
Tags: Chocolate, Cadbury bars, Supermarkets
Chinese demand for seaborne-traded thermal coal will fall sharply from 2016, dragging prices down in its wake, analysts at Goldman Sachs said this week. In a report entitled The Tiger and the Dragon, the bank's analysts downgraded their ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Coal, Coal Mining
India has become the fastest growing photovoltaic (PV) market and replaced the U.K. as one of the top three exports markets for Chinese modules, found EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce. Based on EnergyTrend’s latest report, the ...
Tags: PV market, solar cell
The global market for visible light communications (VLC) - an emerging technology that uses visible light (between 400 and 800THz of electromagnetic spectrum) from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a communication medium - will rise from ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, LEDs, Light Communication
At the start of this year, the United States Department of Commerce conducted a preliminary review of the anti-dumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) measures against Chinese photovoltaic (PV) cell imports for 2012 and reduced the overall ...
Tags: PV Cell, Solar Cell
China's real estate market, widely scrutinized for its significance to the world's second largest economy, has shown glimmering signs of bottoming out in big cities. The property market remains largely anemic, but a string of indicators ...
Destination Maternity Corporation, the world's leading maternity apparel retailer reported a marginal dip in net sales for the first quarter ended May 2, 2015. Net sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 were $141.6 million compared ...
Demand for enthusiast class PC hardware which offers high-performance, reliability, and above all gives the end-user the ability to tweak, fine-tune and tinker, has seen a rapid increase over the past few years. While the overall desktop ...
Tags: Overclocking, PC Hardware
Over 50 per cent of men aged 55 plus that took part in the survey were against removing 'boys' and 'girls' labels on toys. iGen Insight have conducted a nationwide survey to find out whether the public is in support, or against, gender ...
Tags: iGen Mini-Poll, Toys