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China's Power Use Growth Picks up in Jan.-Oct.

Nov 17, 2016

The growth of power use in China, a key barometer of economic activity, continued to accelerate in the first ten months due to more consumption by the service sector, official data showed Friday. Power consumption grew 4.8 percent year on ...

Tags: power use, services

Online Orders Increase for Australian Exporters

Sep 27, 2016

File image courtesy of Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. Online commerce continues to grow with an increasing portion of business to business (B2B) companies joining the e-commerce bandwagon, according to the 2016 DHL ...

Tags: Online commerce, B2B

Exporter Confidence Plateaus Amid Competing Head and Tailwinds

Aug 25, 2016

America’s back, free trade agreements are helping (particularly with China), and Europe remains on Australian business horizons despite Brexit. This is according to the 2016 DHL Export Barometer. However, exporters are muddling ...

Tags: exporter, 2016 DHL Export Barometer

Medium & High-End Heavy-Duty Truck Popular in 2016

Jan 27, 2016

The market of heavy-duty truck is the “vane” of Chinese micro political and economic laws and regulations; the “barometer” of Chinese economy and the “thermometer” of people’s livelihood. The ...

Tags: Heavy-Duty Truck, Truck

China's Power Use Rebounds As Economy Stabilizes

Dec 17, 2015

China's power use, a key barometer of economic activity, ended a two-month falling streak in November by edging up 0.6 percent from one year earlier as the economy showed signs of stabilization, according to data released Wednesday. ...

Tags: Electricity, Power, economy

Cautious Optimism Rules as Good News Returns

Nov 5, 2015

An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...

Tags: laser markets, automotive industry, Medical devices

Compact Camera Sales Forecast to Double by 2020

Nov 5, 2015

Applications of CCMs in the mobile phone and automotive sectors are fueling camera module revenues. Driven by the mobile phone and automotive sectors, the sales value of the Compact Camera Module (CCM) industry will grow by a factor of by ...

Tags: Compact Camera, Camera Module

Two Innovation Awards on Performance Days

Apr 24, 2015

The upcoming Performance Days functional fabric fair in Munich this month will have two awards this time. Apart from coveted Performance Award for the best innovation, the brand new Eco Performance Award for the best sustainable development ...

Tags: Performance Days, functional fabric

Canton Fair

Apr 15, 2015

Orders at famed event seen as signal of the outlook for nation's export-oriented firms Organizers of the latest China Import and Export Fair said transactions at the fair are expected to be stable even though China's foreign trade ...

Tags: Canton Fair, China Import and Export Fair

CeBIT

Mar 16, 2015

CeBIT is the world's largest and most international computer expo. The trade fair is held each year on the Hanover fairground, the world's largest fairground, in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, and is considered a barometer of ...

Tags: Footprints

China's Economic Growth Target for 2015: Putting an End to Months of Speculation

Mar 6, 2015

China unveiled its economic growth target for 2015 Thursday, putting an end to months of speculation.[Special coverage] The target, as expected, was lowered to "around 7 percent," a level not seen since 2004 and 0.5 percentage points ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Growth

Most of The Traditional January or Boxing Day Sales Now Start Online Before Christmas

Dec 28, 2014

Most of the traditional January or Boxing Day sales now start online before Christmas, even before you've had a chance to pull a cracker. Retailers are not obliged to give you a refund or an exchange if you simply decide you don??t want ...

Tags: Boxing Day, Christmas

NF Reports That ILWU and PMA Are Taking a Break From Contract Negotiation

Nov 26, 2014

The National Retail Federation (NF) has expressed disappointment on reports that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) are taking a break from contract negotiations. “We are ...

Tags: contract negotiations, Apparel

Canton Fair Concludes Amid Sagging Foreign Trade

Nov 4, 2014

The 116th Canton Fair, China's largest trade fair, concluded Tuesday in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou with a trade slowdown, the event organizer said. Total turnover at the fair reached about 179.2 billion yuan (29.2 billion U.S. ...

Tags: 116th Canton Fair, trade fair, Canton Fair

The Drop Was Heavily Weighed by an Expected Plunge in Volatile Aircraft Orders

Oct 16, 2014

Orders to U.S. factories fell in August by the largest amount on record, but the drop was heavily weighed by an expected plunge in volatile aircraft orders. A key category that tracks business investment plans posted a small increase, ...

Tags: Factory Orders

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