Dramatic monetary policies in Europe have lots of potential to create a new surge of hot money inflow into China, says Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at the Bank of New York Mellon. Hot money is speculative money that flows ...
According to the Wall Street journal, after 12 consecutive months of weak growth in the euro zone economy, it stagnated in the second quarter, highlights in the Eurozone has concerns about high unemployment and low inflation dilemma. ...
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NYMEX May crude futures settled 14 cents higher at $99.60/barrel Monday with investors focusing on the suspension of vessel boardings in the Houston Ship Channel and its possible impact on oil movements in the US Gulf Coast region. May ...
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HONG KONG, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department (CSD) released the external merchandise trade statistics Monday, according to which the value of total exports of goods rose by 3.6 percent in 2013 over 2012, and ...
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The upturn in the eurozone private sector economy gained momentum in December. Although the recovery remained modest and fragile overall, growth of output was nonetheless recorded throughout the second half of 2013. At a three-month high ...
Air freight markets stabilised in September, after an extended period of slow increase. Global freight tonne kilometres were up 0.5% in September year-on-year, a slowdown on the 3.4% growth in August, and there was no increase in volumes ...
Tags: Global Market Transport, Service, Transport
The Markit Eurozone PMI Composite Output Index fell from September’s 27-month high according to the October flash estimate, but remained above the 50.0 no-change level for a fourth successive month. At 51.5, down from 52.2 in ...
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported a continued modest improvement in air cargo markets in August. August air freight demand was up 3.6% on the previous year, which is considerably better than year-to-date ...
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After six consecutive quarters of decline, GDP in the Eurozone increased by 0.3% in Q2 2013. Economic activity is projected to expand further over the forecast horizon (+0.1% in Q3, +0.3% in Q4 2013 and +0.4% in Q1 2014) mainly on the back ...
THE Australian dollar was slightly higher yesterday after taking a roller-coaster ride in the previous 24 hours. On Thursday afternoon the currency dropped to an almost three-year low of US94.35c, but in offshore trade on Thursday night ...
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THE Australian dollar has jumped sharply higher in a morning of volatile trading. The currency hit a two-and-a-half year low of 94.35 US cents shortly after midnight AEST before staging an impressive recovery. It climbed almost ...
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Growing evidence of an emerging economic recovery in Europe pushed the Australian dollar to three-week lows today. Some market watchers say this might signal an important shift in direction for the currency. Traders say heavy-selling of ...
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The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association's(ELFA)Monthly Leasing and Finance Index(MLFI-25),which reports economic activity for the $628 billion equipment finance sector,showed overall new business volume for August was $6.9 billion,up ...