Last month’s credit crunch should be seen as part of Beijing’s effort to restrain runaway credit growth and investment and encourage consumption spending, according to the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation. The ...
World GDP growth stabilized during the first quarter of 2013 at a moderate rate. In particular, in the advanced economies the situation improved with financial stress being further reduced and stock prices rising. The acceleration of ...
Tags: GDP growth, financial stress, Euro Area, emerging economies
The average bicycle retail store earns annual pre-tax profit of 5.5 percent, but the top 25 percent bring home nearly three times that. Is this really possible? If so, how do they do it? Aggressive marketing? Super staff training? ...
Tags: Bike Stores, Profit
Breaking the traditional international business mode, Buyer Service Department of Made-in-China.com has extended our face-to-face business negotiation to a deeper level by launching Global Sourcing Event. Recently, the third Global Sourcing ...
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A US commodity trading house has filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against BP, Shell and Statoil, the three European oil companies being investigated by the European Commission for suspected manipulation of oil prices. The oil ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Chinese medicinal cuisine is a long standing tradition. Early records show that it was in use as far back as the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220). Through continual improvement during succeeding dynasties, it has developed into a practical ...
Tags: Medicinal Food, cuisine
The Australian dollar fell sharply in Asian trading yesterday on news that economic growth in China, Australia's largest trading partner, was much slower than expected in the first quarter of this year. At 5pm AEST, the dollar was buying ...
Tags: Aussie Dollar, GDP growth
Premature or untimely weakening or crumbling of cement concrete structures due to corrosion of rebars is indeed a big problem, both financially and technically. According to some recent studies, it shows that many countries worldwide spend ...
Toyota usually leaves spacious luxury car duties to its premium Lexus brand. But Toyota dealers have many loyal customers with needs for big-car room, luxury and utility but at a non-upscale price. And for years the Avalon has been a ...
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ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steelmaker, announced the temporarily shutdown of its steel plant and rolling mills in Warsaw due to weak demand. The steel giant last week has suspended facilities in Belgium and close two idled ...
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The Australian sharemarket rose yesterday as China's stronger-than-expected trade data fuelled hopes of an economic rebound for Australia's biggest trading partner. Fortescue Metals added 2.3 per cent after China reported a $US31.6 ...
Tags: sharemarket, China, trade data, stocks
Despite the winter chill,the auto show season is heating up,revealing a number of exciting redesigns,new models,and refreshes coming up in 2013. We saw a few at the recent LA Auto Show and expect more to be displayed in Detroit in ...
Tags: LA auto show, Detroit, Audi Q3, Chevrolet, Ford, Jaguar F Type
Despite the fact that technology plays an increasingly important role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth. The still sluggish U.S. economy gets most of the blame for this wage ...
Tags: IT, technology, economy, inconvenient truth
Despite the fact that technology is playing an increasingly important role in the U.S. economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. "IT salaries have not really kept pace with inflation," said Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, ...
Tags: technology, IT wages, inflation, still-sluggish U.S.economy, running index
Voicing serious opposition over cotton imports,Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association(PCGA)has called on the Government to ban raw cotton imports,noting that there is no need to spend valuable foreign exchange on imports,as the country ...
Tags: PCGA, ban, cotton import, textile