Crown Holdings has released its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended 31 December 2017. Net sales in the fourth quarter increased to $2,168 million compared to $1,923 million in the fourth quarter of 2016, reflecting ...
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International Paper has reported full-year 2017 net earnings of $2.1bn ($5.13 per diluted share) compared with net earnings of $904m ($2.18 per diluted share) for full-year 2016. In the fourth quarter of 2017, the Company reported net ...
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China's fiscal revenue rose 1.7 percent year on year to 989.4 billion yuan (US$224 billion) in August, data from the Ministry of Finance showed Tuesday. Revenue growth was down from the 3.3-percent gain posted for July. The ministry ...
China faces two separate challenges: the long-term issue of a declining potential growth rate and the immediate problem of below-potential actual growth. Indeed, the government's supply-side reform strategy will go a long way toward doing ...
A May 25 Bloomberg report said that Chinese officials plan to ask their American counterparts during the upcoming eighth round of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue about the chance of a Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged solid efforts from the country's financial and taxation authorities to deliver the value-added tax (VAT) reform as part of efforts to invigorate the real economy during a visit to the State ...
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One change will certainly be deeply felt in China's economy in 2016 and more time come: supply-side structural reform. "Supply-side structural reform is an urgent task that cannot afford any delay, otherwise the 'sickness' will become ...
China's economic growth is expected to be unchanged in the fourth quarter of this year, but an improvement is still distant due to property weakness and excess capacity, according to the latest report from UBS. The Swiss banking group ...
Electric car sales in China are expected to reach 220,000 to 250,000 this year, surpassing the US to rank first worldwide, China Association of Automobile Manufactures (CAAM) forecast. Worldwide electric cars sales will hit 600,000 and ...
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China is to reduce import taxes by more than 50 per cent on some consumer goods, including apparel, in a bid to encourage an increase in domestic spending, according to media reports. The Chinese finance ministry has said that it will ...
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China's small and micro enterprises saved 24 billion yuan ($3.92 billion) in the first quarter of 2015 due to preferential tax policies, the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) said on Monday. Statistics from SAT showed that a total of ...
Beer sales in the UK have increased by 1.3%, after nine consecutive years of decline during which beer sales dropped by 24%. According to British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA), the surge in beer sales comes after two duty cuts on alcohol ...
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Mazda is planning to construct an engine plant in the Chonburi Province of Thailand where SKYACTIV-D 1.5 clean diesel engine will be produced for the company’s flagship Mazda2. The engine assembly plant is expected to have ...
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Government incentives help focus efforts on power plant development Chinese solar panel makers are looking to invest in solar power farms to boost earnings after a drop in panel prices due to oversupply. Hit hard by trade disputes as ...
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More young adults have health insurance now than three years ago. And many of them are getting that coverage under a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows them to stay on their parents' health policies until they turn 26, U.S. ...
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