The Chinese currency has seen sharp volatility against the US dollar this week as a strengthening dollar stokes worries of the yuan's depreciation. The yuan continued to decline against the dollar on Wednesday with its spot exchange rate ...
Tags: China's New Yuan, Chinese currency
China's cross-border capital flows will remain volatile this year amid uncertainties both at home and abroad, the country's forex regulator said on Sunday. As China gradually moves to make its foreign exchange mechanism more ...
Gold jewelry demand cooled in China in 2014, in sharp contrast to the frenzied off take in 2013, and plunged 33 percent year-on-year to 624 metric tons, according to data published by the World Gold Council on Thursday India displaced ...
Tags: Gold jewelry, Gold
Cotton imports by the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia decreased by 2.16 per cent in 2014, according to the data from Statistics Indonesia. During the year, Indonesia imported cotton (HS Code 52) worth US$ 2.499 billion, compared to ...
Tags: Cotton Imports, Textile
The exports of garments and textiles from Cambodia grew marginally by 1.07 per cent to US$ 4.521 billion in the first eleven months of 2014, compared to exports of $4.473 billion made during the same period of 2013, according to the ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Textile Exports
Advanced Photonix Inc (API) of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) and Luna Innovations Inc of Roanoke, VA, USA (which ...
Volkswagen’s luxury automotive unit, Audi has acquired automotive-related fuel cell intellectual property worth $80m from Ballard Power Systems. Apart from buying the patents, Volkswagen and Ballard have also extended their ...
For the fourth fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2015, net sales at NYSE listed and apparel marketer, Gap Inc rose 3 per cent year on year to $4.71 billion. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, on a constant currency basis, net sales ...
Tags: Clothing Marketer, Apparel
China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 0.8 percent year on year in January, the slowest rise in more than five years, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Tuesday. Food prices, which account for nearly ...
Tags: consumer price index, CPI
China is unlikely to "purposely weaken" its currency, the yuan, or renminbi (RMB), as it would go against the authorities' commitment to economic rebalancing and structural reforms, HSBC said on Monday. Even dismissing the economic ...
Tags: weaken currency, RMB
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose on Monday as U.S. equities weakened and the dollar fell. The most active gold contract for April delivery rose 6.9 U.S. dollars, or 0.56 percent, to settle at ...
Tags: Gold futures, Physical demand
For its fiscal second-quarter 2015 (ended 27 December 2014), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $86.8m, down 15.6% on $102.9m a year ago and ...
Tags: end-market, Telecoms
China's central bank seems to have moved to stabilize the yuan despite mounting market sentiment that the currency has been toward the upper limit of its daily trading band for the past week. The reference rate the People's Bank of China ...
One of the reading assignments I still remember most from grad school is the 1991 HBR article by Regis McKenna, entitled Marketing is Everything. It remains for me a fascinating exploration of the intersections of technology and ...
Tags: Supply Chain, Electronics
Deckers Brands reported earnings in its third quarter ended Dec. 31 rose 7.5 percent to $149.4 million, or $4.50, but missed its original guidance. Overall Ugg sales grew 6.5 percent but Ugg Classic styles declined due to a slow October and ...
Tags: casual boots, weather boots, Sporting Goods