The Chinese government Tuesday refrained from adjusting retail oil product prices in line with global crude oil fluctuations for the first time in nearly three years, sending a strong signal to the market that it believes prices may have ...
Tags: oil product, crude oil
China released documents on Monday on electricity sector reforms covering everything from pricing to setting up a national electricity futures market. The new pricing system, which was piloted in Shenzhen and Inner Mongolia early this ...
Tags: power grid, electricity system
China will accelerate price reform this year in sectors such as electric power, head of the country's top price regulator said Thursday. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will further strengthen its efforts on price ...
Tags: Price Reform, electric power
Gold jewelry demand cooled in China in 2014, in sharp contrast to the frenzied off take in 2013, and plunged 33 percent year-on-year to 624 metric tons, according to data published by the World Gold Council on Thursday India displaced ...
Tags: Gold jewelry, Gold
Falling LNG costs and rising domestic gas prices in China have made opportunistic purchases increasingly attractive for non-traditional LNG buyers, which are now putting pressure on state-owned terminal operators to gain access to their ...
Tags: LNG prices, LNG market
Gas buyers in Asia are facing the same problems of high prices and a monopolistic market that their counterparts in Europe faced a decade or so ago, but there is no equivalent regulatory body that can force suppliers to change their ...
Tags: Gas Markets, Europe's Dilemma
What is antibiotic resistance and is it correct to describe it as a ‘looming global threat’? Antibiotic resistance is a consequence of antibiotic use. Bacteria adapt to the threat of antibiotics using mechanisms to overcome ...
Tags: Addressing Antibiotic Resistance, bacteria, implementing policies
China's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, announced on Wednesday it would improve the country's on-grid hydropower pricing mechanism to boost investment in the sector for sustainable development. ...
Tags: Pricing System, Hydropower
China will impose a tiered power pricing system on aluminum smelters from Jan. 1 to cut overcapacity, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Monday. Power prices will stay unchanged for smelters that do not use more ...
Chinese oil giants China Petroleum & Chemical (Sinopec; 600028.SHA) and PetroChina (601857.SHA) reported strong results in the third-quarter on China's new oil-pricing system, The Wall Street Journal reported. Sinopec on Tuesday posted a ...
Tags: State Price, Petrochina, Sinopec
China's Tianjin-based Bohai Commodity Exchange (BOCE) has stated that it has decided to launch an iron ore spot trading platform in early November this year and that it expects to establish a new pricing system of iron ore. The Bohai ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore, Iron
Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), one of the four futures exchanges in mainland China, has announced that it will launch trading of iron ore futures on October 18. According to the DCE, trading will be for iron ore containing 62 percent ...
Tags: raw material, Iron Ore Futures
The downward trend in price has not surprisingly grabbed a lot of attention. Many large LED manufacturers are using the lowered prices to help quicken the pace for popularizing LEDs. This however is putting a squeeze on medium and small LED ...
The downward trend in price has not surprisingly grabbed a lot of attention. Many large LED manufacturers are using the lowered prices to help quicken the pace for popularizing LEDs. This however is putting a squeeze on medium and small LED ...
China said Monday that consumers will need to bear some of the costs of tighter fuel standards, opening the door to higher prices at fuel pumps as the nation balances growing public concern over the environment with worries about inflation. ...
Tags: Fuel Standards, Fuel Pumps