China's central bank said Monday the Chinese currency has the fundamentals to remain stable relative to a basket of currencies after a change on Friday in the way the renminbi's value is calculated. The fundamentals include a high ...
Tags: RMB, Central Bank
Hu Kaihong: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the news briefing held by the State Council Information Office. The Johannesburg Summit and the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ("FOCAC") will ...
On the afternoon of November 23, the 26th China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade concluded successfully in Guangzhou. After the meeting, the Alternative Trade Representative of the Ministry of Commerce Zhang Xiangchen, together ...
With the approval of the State Council, Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen and Director of the Department of Finance of Hong Kong Special Administration Region Government John Tsang Chun-wah signed Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic ...
Tags: CEPA, Hong Kong, Trade in Services
With the approval of the State Council, vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen and Secretary for Administration and Justice of Macao Special Administration Region Government Leong Vai Tac signed Mainland and Macao Closer Economic ...
Tags: CEPA, liberalization, trade in services, Macao
Over 15 years after the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (the "FOCAC"), China-Africa economic and trade cooperation has become a highlight in international cooperation with Africa and a model of South-South ...
Tags: FOCAC, financing cooperation
Major iron ore producers will have to cut production like aluminum producers did in 1994 to halt the current slump in spot prices, investment bank Investec said in a note Tuesday. "In our view if iron ore prices prevail at current levels ...
The European passenger car market recorded almost 14% more registrations in November than in the same month of 2014, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association reported Tuesday, which should help boost demand for platinum and ...
Tags: auto catalysts, platinum, palladium
The UK needs to allow more shale gas exploration wells nation-wide before a reliable picture of the effect of a shale industry on the country can be properly formulated, the Task Force on Shale Gas said late Monday. The Task Force on ...
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Hundreds of thousands of US stripper wells with production totaling 1 million b/d of crude could be at risk if oil prices fall below $35/b, where prices teetered in recent days, for long, observers say. Stripper wells are wells nearing ...
Tags: crude, oil prices, wells
On November 29, MOFCOM Vice Minister Gao Yan attended the 9th China-Japan Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection General Discussion Forum held in Tokyo Japan and delivered a keynote speech. Gao pointed out that at present, the ...
Tags: energy conservation, environmental protection industry
The 8th Round of China-EU Bilateral Investment Treaty negotiations were held in Brussels on November 30-December 4, 2015. The Chinese delegation is consisted by ten ministries and departments including the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry ...
On December 3 2015, the High-level Dialogue between Chinese-African Leaders and Business Communities and the 5th Conference of the Chinese and African Entrepreneurs, jointly held by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, China Council for the ...
Oman is close to awarding construction contracts and reaching financial close for its planned Liwa Plastics petrochemicals complex and Salalah LPG plant, sources close to the projects said Monday. Approximately $5.2 billion of funding is ...
The North American coal industry remains negatively positioned for 2016 with thermal coal facing a slow, long-term decline and metallurgical coal prices unlikely to recover within the next 12 months, a Moody's Investors Service note said ...