Topic: China
SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global factory activity slowed in October on weak demand for exports, with a sharp contraction in Britain's manufacturing sector suggesting that Europe was on the brink of a new recession.While manufacturing surveys on Tuesday from North America to debt ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker said on Sunday it made sense for China to invest its surplus in Europe to help the region overcome its debt crisis, but this would not involve political concessions.European leaders agreed a plan last week ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it welcomed the consensus reached at the European Union's summit to tackle the euro debt crisis and supported measures taken by the bloc."We hope that this consensus ... is conducive to boosting market confidence," Foreign ...
Retail investors have jumped on board the "good-times commodities train"In the last few weeks a slow slide in commodity prices – metals in particular – has turned into a full-scale nosedive. All through 2011 copper had remained essentially between US$4 and $4.50 ...
Beijing expressed confidence Thursday in Europe's ability to overcome its worst financial crisis in decades, ahead of a China-EU summit on October 25.Europe's debt crisis will top the agenda when the president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and European Union ...
India's slowing economic growth is a "cause for worry", research group Moody's Analytics said Monday, highlighting the failure of aggressive interest rate hikes to curb near double-digit inflation.India's growth has weakened under the brunt of 12 interest rate increases since March 2010 ...
Europe's crisis appears to have drawn attention away from what's happening in ChinaBelow is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on October 6, 2011. The U.S. economy is definitely in recession and the recession will probably extend into next ...
Shares in Chinese banks surged Tuesday after a government investment arm bought stakes in the country's major lenders in a move analysts said was aimed at shoring up support for the flagging market.Central Huijin Investment, the domestic arm of China's $300 billion ...
(Reuters) - As housing bubbles go, China's looks relatively benign.Unlike in the United States, Chinese home buyers typically put down at least 40 percent of the purchase price. That means they don't have to worry about a modest decline wiping out all ...
(Reuters) - September factory activity in some of Asia's biggest economies slumped to levels last seen during the depths of the financial crisis as export demand dropped, reinforcing fears that fading U.S. and European growth will spare no one.Similar figures for Europe ...
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