Japan's unemployment rate fell 0.3 percent in February from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted 4.6 percent, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Tuesday. The figure compared to median economists' forecast of a 4.9 percent reading in the recording period. The number of jobless people totaled 3 million, down 240,000 from a year...
The cinema advertising industry across the United States has registered a 12.7 percent growth in 2010 despite the continued softness among other traditional media as the country is still mired in the economic crisis, a trade association said in a report which was published on Monday. Total revenues from the members of the Cinema Advertising Council (CAC) ...
China's top one-hundred chain store operators saw sales volume hit 1.66 trillion yuan (253 billion U.S. dollars) in 2010, up 21.2 percent year on year, said a report on Monday. The 2010 growth rate rose 7.7 percentage points from the previous year, according to a report published by the China Chain Store & Franchise Association (CCFA). The repo...
Bangladesh's overall trade deficit in the first seven months of the current 2010-11 fiscal year (July 2010- June 2011) widened to over 4.273 billion U.S. dollars, official statistics showed on Sunday. Statistics of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) showed that the country exported 12.214 billion U.S. dollars of goods while it imported items worth 16.487 billion...
Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) Monday called on the United States to correct its wrongdoing against China's export commodities after the World Trade Organization reversed a previous ruling. "We hope the United States implements the WTO ruling as soon as possible for stable and sound development of Sino-U.S. economic and trade relations," said a sta...
JAPAN remains the world's second largest trading market between north east and south east Asia despite the migration of manufacturing to more affordable sourcing countries, says Cheshire-based BoxTradeIntelligence's latest report. The impact of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan will be more acute than expected on intra-Asia trade lanes said the report...
South Korean companies' direct financing jumped 30 percent in February from a month earlier, the financial regulator said Monday. Corporate financing through public offers amounted to 14.05 trillion won (12.6 billion U.S. dollars) in February, up 29.6 percent or 3.21 trillion won from 10.84 trillion won the previous month, the Financial Supervisory Servi...
Chicago corn and wheat tumbled on Friday, as some investors opted to liquidate their holdings following Thursday's strong rebound. Besides, a rally in the U.S. dollar also added to negative tone. However, soybeans further hiked on unfavorable weather in the South America. The most active corn contract for May delivery shed 13 cents, or 1.85 percent, to c...
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