Reuters reported that government infrastructure spending should help Zambia's economy grow faster over the next 2 years providing copper prices do not fall. Median forecasts from last week's survey of 13 economists show Africa's top ...
Tags: copper, Capital Economics, copper price
Nonresidential fixed investment fell 4.4 percent in the third quarter of this year, according to the U.S. Commerce Department's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report. This quarter's decline precedes a 0.6 percent increase in the second ...
In 2011,the value-added of corporate units of cultural and related industries(hereafter referred to as cultural industries)was 1,347.9 billion yuan,up by 21.96 percent year-on-year,4.0 percentage points higher than the average annual GDP ...
Tags: Value-added of Corporate Units, Cultural and Related Industries
A small Hawaiian subsidiary of Australian energy and infrastructure company Macquarie said Thursday it wants to use natural gas to slow the stream of oil imported by the US' only island state. Hawaii already has a statewide plan to reduce ...
Tags: gas, gas accounts, energy, Oil
According to Karvy Stock Broking, India's Gross Domestic Product growth for Q2 FY13 to drop to nearly 3 and a half year low of 5.1% which is mainly expected to be driven by sluggish growth in electricity generation and sharp drop in trade ...
Yonhap reported that the South Korean economy will likely expand at a lower than expected rate in 2013 due to the sluggish economic recovery in advanced countries. Morgan Stanley said that South Korea's gross domestic product is predicted ...
Tags: Morgan Stanley, South Korean economy, economic recovery
Major issues still need to be addressed, but presuming the United States gets its fiscal house in some semblance of order, the U.S. economy could be in a transition from sluggish growth to a longer period of moderate growth, according to a ...
Tags: MAPI, GDP growth, Manufacturing production
Proactive Investors reported that South Africa focused Bushveld Minerals will deliver a resource upgrade on its flagship iron ore project by the end of the year following an extensive drilling program. Bushveld said that the drilling ...
Bloomberg reported that aluminum buyers in Japan are set to secure the first fee reduction in a year from suppliers as the economy sinks into a recession. The executives said that premiums for the three months starting in January may drop ...
Tags: aluminum buyer, aluminum, Japan aluminum, fee reduction
Computerworld - Statistical modeling techniques that retailers and manufacturers use to find and target customers helped some prognosticators predict the outcome of this month's U.S. elections with stunning accuracy. Because of his ...
Tags: Statistical, Accurate, manufacturers
If there was one lesson for political pundits from last week's presidential election,it was that basic statistical modeling techniques can be used to predict election outcomes with stunning accuracy. Quantitative analyst and New York ...
Tags: presidential election, statistical modeling techniques, Nate Silver
Gulf Times reported that Qatalum, an equal JV between Norway's Hydro Aluminium and Qatar Petroleum ruled out direct involvement in downstream industries but its focus will be on capacity enhancement. Mr Tom Petter Johansen CEO of Qatalum ...
Tags: Qatalum, petroleum, aluminium, downstream industries
First, ethanol use of corn is running behind the seasonal pace to meet current USDA expectations. Our models are indicating that if the current use of corn for ethanol continues we will fall about 125 million bushels short of current USDA ...
The slump in global markets has depressed demand for Cambodian products,leading to reduced growth forecasts by the Asian Development Bank(ADB)for 2012 and 2013. "Falling global demand,especially in Europe and the US,means that the ...
Tags: global markets, ADB, growth, garment exports
The iPhone 5,which is expected to be announced tomorrow,could provide a financial boost to the US economy of up to 0.5 per cent. That's according to financial services firm JP Morgan,which predicts sales of eight million iPhone 5s ...
Tags: Apple iPhone 5, boost economy, JP Morgan, financial services firm