In the first half of 2013, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the Central Party Committee and the State Council have committed to the general tone of making progress while ensuring the ...
Strength in the resources sector has pushed Australian shares higher, although the market lost some ground after China's finance minister lowered expectations for the country's economic growth. The S&P/ASX200 index passed 5000 points in ...
Tags: China Gloom, Miners
AUSTRALIAN stocks shot up by 1.3 per cent, with investors cheering comments out of the US that money would continue to be pumped into the world's largest economy. Shares in Australia soared on US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's comments that ...
Tags: economy
THE Australian dollar is higher after the US Federal Reserve chairman eased concerns about the tapering of the central bank's economic stimulus program. At 1700 AEST on Thursday, the local unit was trading at 92.71 US cents, up from 91.96 ...
Tags: economy, Australian dollar
THE Australian dollar lost some ground as minutes of the US Federal Reserve's last meeting hinted that the central bank was more likely to unwind its stimulus measures before the mid-2014 target. At 6.30am AEST the local unit was trading ...
Tags: economy
THE Australian dollar jumped yesterday after the US central bank poured cold water on earlier speculation that it would soon start to withdraw economic stimulus. The US dollar plunged early yesterday after the market was surprised by ...
Tags: economy, Australian dollar
Chinese state-owned Yanzhou Coal Mining's proposal to acquire the 22% of shares it does not own in Australian coal producer Yancoal Australia for A$905 million ($822 million) might violate strict foreign investment conditions set by the ...
Tags: Coal Mining, Chemicals
Glass LLC, glass pioneers in the Middle East and wholly-owned by Dubai Investments, said its coating lines, comprising subsidiaries Emirates Glass and Saudi American Glass, have won projects worth AED 100 million from January 2013 till date ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
China's twice-revised proposal to ban some imports of lower calorific value thermal coal, predominantly from Indonesia, and some US higher-sulfur thermal coal, was close to being suspended as a pretext to being quietly dropped, according to ...
Tags: Low CV Thermal Coal, Chemicals
The Yanke Group of Companies and Royal LePage teamed up to hold a food drive for victims of the flooding in Alberta. The event was held July 2 at the Stonegate Walmart in Saskatoon, Sask. from 9 a.m. till 9 p.m. Donations of food items, ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto
To meet the power charging needs of today's lifestyle products, Asia Powercom, a division of Powercom Co. Ltd, has launched slim, portable with the 4000mAh battery capacity, Powerbank - AsiaPower AP4000A. Asia Power-Powerbank offers one ...
Tags: Computer Products
In the ice-cold cargo hold of a pirate tuna vessel in the Pacific, I have somehow lost my shoe. Frozen tuna fins slice my unshod foot as I fumble around on all fours, reaching into the gigantic, frigid pile. I had boarded the pirate ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, fish
THE dollar followed a stronger gold price higher in Asia yesterday in a jittery session, with traders awaiting comments by the US central bank on the outlook for the economy. Late yesterday, the dollar was at US91.83c, up US1.25c from ...
Tags: gold price, gold, economy
The 2013 Australian Business Awards categories for Product Value, Product Excellence and Best Software have been awarded to IFS SmartFreight. These awards have been added to the four previous awards – for Product Value and Product ...
Tags: Service
On July 8, OSRAM Licht AG started trading with ticker symbol "OSR" on the Frankfurt and Munich stock exchange. Wolfgang Dehen, CEO of Osram, said that the listing marks the beginning of a new chapter in Osram's history of more than 100 ...