U.S. personal income rises 1 pct in Dece...
WASHINGTON, March 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. personal income increased 1 percent in December while inflation pressure remained stable, the U.S. Department of Commerce said on Friday. According to the departm
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U.S. personal income rises 1 pct in Dece...
WASHINGTON, March 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. personal income increased 1 percent in December while inflation pressure remained stable, the U.S. Department of Commerce said on Friday. According to the departm
Backgrounder: China on the move to cut f...
BEIJING, April 4 (Xinhua) -- China pledges the implementation of large-scale tax cuts and fee reductions this year in a bid to further boost the vitality of market entities, increase urban and rural
U.S. soybean futures rise over 1 pct wee...
CHICAGO, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) crop futures traded higher in the trading week ending on April 5, with soybeans adding over 1 percent, as the oil seeds were boosted by opti
British labor productivity fell in Q4 20...
LONDON, April 5 (Xinhua) -- British labor productivity, measured by output per hour, in the fourth quarter of 2018 fell by 0.1 percent year-on-year, the second consecutive quarter decrease, according
Foreign investment transactions in Phili...
MANILA, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Registered investments for February amounted to 1.4 billion U.S. dollars, lower by 31.6 percent compared to the 2.1 billion U.S. dollars recorded for January, the Philipp
Weichai Power net profit up 27 pct in 20...
JINAN, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Weichai Power Co., Ltd., a leading Chinese powertrain producer, Tuesday posted a 27.2 percent year-on-year growth in net profit for 2018. In its annual financial results f
Roundup: U.S. crop futures suffer double...
CHICAGO, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) crop futures traded sharply lower in the trading week ending on March 1, with all the most active contracts suffering double-digit losses du
Vietnam ranks 2nd in Asia in terms of wo...
HANOI, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Women are currently holding 36 percent of senior management positions in Vietnamese businesses, posting the second highest ratio in Asia after the Philippines with nearly 3
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended mixed on Wednesday. The Dow was down 0.28 percent to 25,985.16, the SP 500 was down 0.05 percent to 2,792.38, while the Nasdaq was up 0.07 percent to 7
China's overnight Shibor interbank rate ...
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- The overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the borrowing cost of China's interbank market, dropped 19.2 basis points to 2.07 percent Wednesday
British stocks up 0.17 pct Wednesday
LONDON, March 6 (Xinhua) -- British stocks rose on Wednesday, with the benchmark FTSE 100 Index up by 0.17 percent, or 12.57 points, to close at 7,196.00 points. British American Tobacco, a tobacco g
Rising diary prices push FAO Food Price ...
ROME, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- World food prices started 2019 on the rise, climbing 1.8 percent compared to December, according to the Food Price Index released Thursday by the United Nations Food and Agri
Israeli central bank reduces forecasts o...
JERUSAELM, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Israel's central bank said on Monday that its forecast of the 2019 GDP had been lowered from 3.4 percent to 3.2 percent. The basic interest rate forecast for the end of
U.S.-listed Chinese firms trade mostly h...
NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S.-listed Chinese companies traded mostly higher on Monday with nine of the top 10 stocks by weight in the SP U.S. Listed China 50 index ending the day on an upbeat no
Spanish stock market falls by 1.67 perce...
MADRID, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Spanish share values fell by 1.67 percent on Friday with the benchmark stock market index Ibex-35 opening at 9.355,60 points and closing at 9.199,40 points. Thirty-three
The true economic value of being a woman
A survey by online recruiter Boss Zhipin finds that the average Chinese working woman earns 78.3 percent of her male counterpart, in 2018. This salary gulf is 8.7 percent higher than that of the prev
India's manufacturing sector seen upbeat...
MUMBAI, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- India's manufacturing sector had portrayed a higher production in the recently concluded Oct-Dec quarter with 54 percent respondents reporting higher output compared to 47
Profits of China's SOEs up 12.9 pct in 2...
The combined profits of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) rose 12.9 percent to 3.39 trillion yuan (about 500 billion U.S. dollars) last year, new data showed Monday. The pace was faster than th
Supreme People's Court handles 34,794 ca...
The Supreme People's Court (SPC) of China handled 34,794 cases in 2018 and concluded 31,883 cases, up 22.1 percent and 23.5 percent year on year respectively, a work report of the SPC said Tuesday.
Finland maintains satisfactory growth in...
HELSINKI, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Finnish gross domestic product grew in 2018 by 2.2 percent, Statistics Finland reported on Thursday.Commentators noted that even though the growth was less than in s