Singapore's total trade grew by 18 percent in the third quarter of 2010 on a year-on-year basis, following the previous quarter's expansion of 28 percent, the government said on Thursday. On a quarter-on-quarter seasonally adjusted basis, the total trade decreased by 0.4 percent in the third quarter, after the 4.7 percent increase in the previous quar...
OCTOBER marked the fourth consecutive month of gains for American retailers, according to the US Commerce Department. "The American consumer has returned," said Retail Industry Leaders Association president Sandy Kennedy. "With four consecutive months of sales gains, retailers are happy to turn the page and embrace a more optimistic future." Unemplo...
An international business council will hold its first meeting Tuesday to promote investment and trade in Russia's Far Eastern region, according to a local report. The council, consisting of executives from major companies of Japan, China and South Korea as well as U.S. officials, would meet in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, RIA Novosti quoted the ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday he is confident that Europe can tackle the debt crisis which threatening the future of its single currency. "I think it is completely within Europe's choice to manage," Geithner said at Wall Street Journal CEO Council Annual Meeting held in Washington. The future of euro, the currency of 16 Euro...
China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation (CGNPC) announced Tuesday that it will invest 65 million Singapore dollars (about 50 million U.S. dollars) into an Integrated Solar-Biomass Power Generation Project and a regional headquarters for its solar operations in Singapore. The integrated solar-biomass power generation project features a biomass ...
China's foreign trade volume of mineral products rose sharply in the first three quarters this year, a senior official disclosed at the 12th China Mining Conference & Expo that opened here Tuesday. Imported and exported mineral products increased 49 percent year-on-year to 524 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of the year, out-pacing la...
U.S. wholesale prices rose by a modest pace of 0.4 percent in October, the fourth straight month increase, reported the Labor Department on Tuesday. The growth pace of the Producer Price Index (PPI) in the United States was the same as that in September. It was mainly boosted by higher gas costs in October. Over the past 12 months ended October 2010...
China exported 16,000 tonnes of rare earth to Japan in the first nine months of the year, equivalent to 49.8 percent of its total rare earth exports, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Tuesday. The figure was a 167-percent year-on-year rise, MOC spokesman Yao Jian said at a press conference. Exports to the United States increased 5.5 percent year o...
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