As the Chinese economy firms with recent upbeat data, analysts expect a reform package to be unveiled in a key plenum this weekend to bring changes not only to China but to reinvigorate the global economy, which has been in a slow recovery. ...
Tags: China's Reform
Australia is a good potential investment target in the shale gas sector for Chinese companies as the domestic industry hopes that its own developments there can help meet soaring demand, according to several experts in the field. "It is a ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China will further open its mining sector to overseas investors and encourage them to participate in resource exploration and utilization and the development of shale gas, said a senior official on Sunday. "The Chinese government has ...
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Company profit expectations have reached their highest level since 2003, with Australian businesses anticipating a jump in takings in the New Year on the back of stronger sales and firming selling prices. Continuing initial positive ...
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Sinopec Corp has won initial approval from China's top economic planner for a plan to build a US$10 billion refinery and petrochemical complex in Shanghai, two company officials said. China, the world's largest net importer of oil, is ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Alexey Miller, Gazprom’s Chairman of the Management Committee, and Dmitry Konov, SIBUR’s CEO, signed Memorandum of Cooperation in the gas processing project in Far East that envisages construction of a gas processing plant (GPP) ...
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During the opening ceremony of the Arab Steel Summit held in Dubai on October 26-28, Ezz Steel marketing director George Matta said he believes that both Ezz Steel and Egypt have come through the worst times and that the country is on the ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
China's energy demand growth is expected to slow to 1.8 percent per annum in the 10 years after 2020, a top management member of the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) said on Monday. Yang Qing, executive vice president of the ...
Tags: Energy Demand, fuel sources
Europe's economy is in the doldrums. Yet companies are still looking to the future with a positive mindset. 76% of survey respondents expect a return to robust economic growth in 2015. But the prospects for European competitiveness are not ...
Tags: Competitive Edge, Europe's economy
The German economy is on the verge of an upturn driven by domestic demand. The improving global economic climate and decreasing uncertainty are fuelling investment. Private consumption is benefitting from favourable employment and income ...
Major Chinese industrial firms saw their profits rise 13.5 percent year on year in the first three quarters, a faster pace than the 12.8-percent growth rate in the January-August period, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on ...
In the third quarter of 2013, Daimler AG once again achieved significantly higher earnings than in the prior-year period. The Daimler Group's EBIT for the period of July through September amounted to €2,231 million (Q3 2012: 1,923 ...
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Governors from eight states in the US have signed a cooperative agreement to put 3.3 million zero-emission vehicles on road in their states by 2025. The states under this deal include California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New ...
US-based Coca Cola has opened its 58th bottling plant in India in Chatta region of Uttar Pradesh, which is owned by Brindavan Agro Industries. The plant is built with an investment of around INR1350m ($22m), which is expected to provide ...
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Thailand-based Long Luck Group is building a new $36 million steel mill in the Samutsakorn district of Bangkok, according to Asia Pacific Investment House (APIH), the lead funding arranger for the project. The Long Luck Steel Mill will ...
Tags: Steel Mill, Mineral