Mainly on strong demands from service sectors, Japan's core machinery orders have continuously surged, and hit a 10-year zenith in November, 2017, showing that the Japanese government's efforts on encouraging local enterprises to invest in ...
Tags: Core Machinery
Australian business attitudes are upbeat as we head into the year-end holiday trading period. According to Dun & Bradstreet’s September Business Expectations Survey, companies are anticipating increased sales, profits, employee ...
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GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index remained at zero in March, perhaps signalling Brexit fears. Two of the measures used to calculate it saw decreases this month, with one measure showing an increase and the remaining two ...
Tags: GfK, Joe Staton, Consumer Confidence Stalls
People’s Daily published the signed paper of Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng’s To Cooperate for the Prosperity of Regional Development with the Help of the China-Korea Free Trade Agreement on June 2. The full text follows: ...
Tags: China-South Korea FTA, textile, garment, steels, liquid crystal display
Sales and orders grew on the high street at a much stronger rate than had been anticipated in the year to September, with the robust pace of growth expected to continue next month, according to the CBI’s latest monthly Distributive ...
Tags: Low inflation, wage growth
Despite the recent stock market crashes around the world on the heels of China devaluing the yuan, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has said he doesn't believe that there's a financial crisis looming. "Based on what I've seen ...
A study by German market intelligence firm GfK has found the situation for retail in crisis countries in Europe has improved. GfK has carried out a comprehensive analysis of the retail scene in 32 European countries. The study examined ...
Tags: European Economy, German market
More steps necessary to reverse trend, says government think tank China may need more time to reverse the current economic downturn than previously expected, and further measures are necessary to prevent an accelerated cooling, a leading ...
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After a slowdown in demand in the second half of last year in many parts of Europe, coatings companies in the region have become less confident about the short-term future. However, despite economic forecasts of relatively slow growth in ...
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose on Monday as U.S. equities weakened and the dollar fell. The most active gold contract for April delivery rose 6.9 U.S. dollars, or 0.56 percent, to settle at ...
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China's consumer prices in November grew by their slowest pace in five years, official data showed on Wednesday, raising the probability of more easing measures by the central bank. China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of ...
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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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Since the global economic crisis, the foreign trade market has been in the doldrums for along time .And due to the volatility of RMB exchange rate, fluctuations in prices of commodity products is also big , the protectionism and trade ...
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According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q2 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), strengthening indicators and evidence of improving dynamics suggest that the EU economy is ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
This year the Eurozone will experience annual GDP growth for the first time since 2011, but at just 0.9% the growth will not be strong enough to support a level of uplift in financial services that will drive further economic recovery ...
Tags: Eurozone Financial Services, Business Lending, Financial Services