Writing in the Financial Times, a partner at a London-based financial advisory business suggests Iraq as a true frontier market investment. Citing precedents such as Japan in the early 1960s and Russia in 1995, Richard Greer, a partner at ...
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China has authorized beef imports from four additional facilities in Canada, a move which will strengthen the Canadian beef export market. The facilities that can export beef to China are Les Viandes Laroche (Asbestos, Quebec), Ryding ...
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Development of new energy promotes low-carbon economic growth. It means a lot to our environment. New energy industry faces obstacles abroad and at home. Take China's solar manufacturing industry as an example. China's solar ...
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today announced that the 2013 International CES will feature a record amount of exhibit space, with the show floor totaling more than 1.87 million net square feet. The previous record was 1.862 ...
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According to Zhang Xiaoqiang, the vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), cited by Xinhua, China's economy grew at a 7.7 percent rate in 2012, exceeding the 7.5 percent target set early last year. Quoting ...
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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 ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has acquired Solar Chile, a Santiago-based solar development company in which Fundación Chile was an early ...
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Ten U.S. retail employees will have a chance to make their dreams a reality through a program announced between the NRF Foundation and the University of Phoenix. The Dream BIG scholarship will award 10 current retail employees with full ...
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Globalfoundries is to build an R&D facility at its Fab 8 campus in Saratoga County,N.Y which it calls its Technology Development Center(TDC). The TDC will cost nearly$2bn,increasing the total capital investment for the Fab 8 campus to ...
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Numbers of Germans out of work rose for the ninth month running in December but held close to a post-reunification low, adding to signs Europe's largest economy remains relatively unscathed by the region's crisis. Labour Office data ...
Within a couple of days first Fortescue Metals' Nev Power and then Rio Tinto's Sam Walsh have warned that the remarkable rebound in iron ore prices won't last. Others are not as sure. Earlier this week, Power attributed the sharp rise in ...
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PTI cited Mr Kaushik Basu CEO of World Bank as saying that India's economy could expand by around 6% in 2013, attributing the current slowdown to global factors. Mr Basu at CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture said that "It is very-very difficult ...
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Business Line reported that Mahindra & Mahindra sold 45,297 vehicles in December, a 6% increase from 42,761 units sold during the same month a year ago. The company’s domestic sales stood at 42,307 units during the reporting month, ...
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Business Standard reported that steel Strips Wheels has surged 11% to INR 208 after the company, it is expected to report higher sales of more than 800,000 steel wheel rims in the current month compared to the previous month. Steel ...
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An ASSOCHAM report said that the quality of governance, inflation and the government’s fiscal situation will remain the key differentiators in 2013 between India managing to cope up with the global slowdown and further erosion in the ...
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