A week of talking about ambitious plans for the Chinese economy was followed by a weekend of reality as key economic data were released. Journalists in Beijing flocked around a beleaguered spokesman whilst analysts elsewhere were cursing ...
Tags: Chinese economy, export data
A US financial regulator warned consumers Tuesday that using the online currency Bitcoin is fraught with risks including theft by hacking and fraud. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued the general warning amid a spate of ...
Tags: Bitcoin, US Regulator
Copper cathode inventories at China's Shanghai Futures Stock Exchange warehouses rose for the eight straight week to 207,320 mt as of March 7, up 4.6% week on week, according to SHFE data released late Friday. SHFE copper cathode stocks ...
Tags: Copper Cathode, SHFE Warehouses
Qinghai Province-based Chinese steelmaker Xining Special Steel Co. has announced that it plans to issue medium-term notes worth RMB 470 million ($76.8 million) on March 14. The notes in question will mature within seven years. Huaxia Bank ...
Tags: Special Steel, Medium-Term Notes
The Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) has signed an agreement for extending 161 billion dong (US$ 7.8 million) to Thien An Thinh Textile and Garment Joint Stock Company for setting up a new textile ...
Tags: Textile Plant, Textile
Nike is close to to announcing a record sponsorship deal worth more than ?00million ($1 bn) with Manchester United, the English Premier football team. It will bank United more than ?0 million a year over the course of a decade-long ...
Tags: Nike, Sporting Goods, Recreation
The data breach at Target Corp. that exposed millions of credit card numbers has focused attention on the patchwork of state consumer notification laws in the U.S. and renewed a push for a single national standard. Most U.S. states have ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
If you are basking in the convenience of doing an online bank transfer at a coffee house while spooning the cream off a designer special, consider the tradeoff, which is placing your personal data at risk. Also consider yourself warned by ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Wi-Fi
An alliance that helps developing nations said it will support vaccination of 1.5 million girls in Rwanda, Uganda and Uzbekistan against cervical cancer. The GAVI Alliance, which brings together developing country and donor governments, ...
Plexineon makes a vital common space more modern and welcoming International Finance Corporation (IFC) is the largest global development institution in the world. A member of the World Bank Group, IFC's stated mission is to create jobs, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Retailers have warmly welcomed today's Australian Bureau of Statistics trade figures for January, which showed the sector made a solid start to 2014, writes Trevor Evans from the National Retail Association. The 1.2 per cent increase ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The rally in the gold price lost some steam on Wednesday, after traders booked profits from the metal's strong showing in February and a stronger dollar curbed demand. In lunchtime trade on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile ...
Tags: Gold Market, Precious Metals
Sichuan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co. (Pangang Group) has announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth a total of RMB 3 billion ($483.9 million) on March 4. This will be the company's first ...
Orders for durable goods declined in January, the Commerce Department reported. Orders for products meant to last more than three years fell 1%, which followed a 5.3% decline in December. The smaller decline from January to December ...
Tags: durable goods, Transportation, Transport
Tyson Foods, Inc. executives today told investors at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Agriculture Conference that its strong capital structure and sound business fundamentals have given the company a solid foundation for growth, ...
Tags: Tyson Foods, Prepared Foods