The Australian dollar fell back slightly after an earlier rise on strong Chinese growth data. At 7am AEDT the Australian dollar was at 105.10 US cents, down from 105.23 cents on Friday. Official data released on Friday showed China's ...
Tags: Australian dollar, GDP, US cents
The sharemarket rose yesterday after US housing data suggested economic growth in the world's biggest economy was likely to continue, and above-consensus GDP data from China showed that an economic recovery in Australia's biggest trading ...
Tags: stocks, sharemarket, economic
The Australian sharemarket rose after US housing data suggested economic growth in the world's biggest economy was likely to continue, and above-consensus GDP data from China showed that an economic recovery in Australia's biggest trading ...
Tags: Shares, economic growth, sharemarket
China's gross domestic product (GDP) indicated a year-on-year increase of 7.8 percent to RMB 51.9322 trillion ($8.3 trillion) in 2012, as announced by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In the fourth quarter of 2012, ...
The sharemarket closed at its highest level in 20 months yesterday as consumer staples, consumer discretionary, financial, energy and healthcare sectors enjoying strong gains as investors were frustrated with a lack of significant dips in ...
Tags: sharemarket, stocks, consumer staples
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the German economy continued to grow on an annual average in 2012. The country's price adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012 increased by 0.7 percent compared to the ...
In a desperate move to restrict imports of gold, the Indian Government and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are planning to further increase import duty on gold from prevailing 4% to 6%. It had quadrupled the gold import duty from 1% to 4% last ...
Tags: Government, India, Jewellery Industry
The National Retail Federation released the following statement from President and CEO Matthew Shay regarding Walmart’s announcement regarding the hiring of veterans: “We have a lot of announcements made at the National Retail ...
Tags: Walmart, veterans, retailers, retail trade
December retail sales were up compared to November and also on an annual basis, to data released today by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF). Commerce reported that December retail sales at ...
Tags: December, retail sales, NRF
The Australian dollar was slightly higher, despite weakness in global stock markets and disappointing German economic growth figures. At 6.30am AEDT the currency was trading at 105.52 US cents, up from 105.48 US cents at yesterday’s ...
Tags: Australian dollar, global stock markets, economic growth
Europe's chemical volumes' growth in 2013 will be "sluggish" with only marginal gains on 2012, global bank HSBC said Monday. "Our forecasts are not materially different to what the industry is expecting: the European chemical ...
In Great Britain, the construction industry output volume in non-seasonally adjusted, constant (2005) prices, is estimated to have decreased 9.8 percent in November 2012, compared to the same month of 2011, according to a report released by ...
Tags: Great Britain, construction industry, output
According to report, Peru sees its economy will continue to grow about 6.1 percent this year on expansion of mining and construction activities. The GDP of the country grew 6.3% in 2012. The expansion of two sectors is related to domestic ...
Tags: mining, construction, steel market
In accordance with the accounting procedures of the gross domestic product (GDP), according to the 2011 Statistical Yearbook and departmental accounting, financial accounts data, on the basis of the preliminary verification, the NBS made ...
Tags: China, GDP, bulletin, National Bureau of Statistics of China
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 ...
Tags: NDRC, China's economy, CPI