British stocks up 0.88 pct Thursday
LONDON, March 21 (Xinhua) -- British stocks rose on Thursday, with the benchmark FTSE 100 Index up by 0.88 percent, or 64.30 points, to close at 7,355.31 points. Hikma Pharmaceuticals, a multinationa
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British stocks up 0.88 pct Thursday
LONDON, March 21 (Xinhua) -- British stocks rose on Thursday, with the benchmark FTSE 100 Index up by 0.88 percent, or 64.30 points, to close at 7,355.31 points. Hikma Pharmaceuticals, a multinationa
U.S. stocks open lower as earnings disap...
NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks opened sharply lower on Monday as investors digested weak earnings of some big companies including Caterpillar. Shortly after the opening bell, the Dow Jones
Chinese shares continue to slip Thursday
BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese stocks continued to fall Thursday with husbandry and media sectors leading the declines. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.2 percent to close at 2,99
China posts rising power generation
China's power generation rose 2.9 percent year on year to hit 1.09 trillion kWh in the first two months of the year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The expansion was 3.4 percen
China's retail sales up 8.2 pct in Jan-F...
China's retail sales of consumer goods rose 8.2 percent year on year in the first two months of the year, official data showed Thursday. The growth held steady from an increase of 8.2 percent regist
China's coking industry reports better p...
China's coking industry reported rising production and improving profitability last year, official data showed. Coke output amounted to 438 million tonnes, up 0.8 percent from one year earlier, acco
China's farm produce prices continue to ...
BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Prices of farm produce in China continued to fall in the week ending Feb. 24, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The price index for farm produce edged down 1.3 perce
China has 829 mln online users: report
BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The number of China's online users hit 829 million by the end of last year, up 7.3 percent from the previous year, according to a report on China's internet development r
China farm produce prices continue to ri...
BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Prices of farm produce in China continued to rise last week, with the overall price going up 0.8 percent, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed. The average wholesal
Vietnam's industrial production up 9.2 p...
HANOI, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's national index of industrial production advanced 9.2 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, the country's General Statistics Office announced on
Report: New coal power plant numbers reg...
Notorious for causing massive emissions contributing to global warming, coal-fired power plant numbers have reduced drastically in the last three years. Governments' around the world are reluctant to
China's industrial profits up 10.3 pct i...
The profits of China's major industrial enterprises increased 10.3 percent year-on-year in 2018, but lower than the 21 percent expansion for 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Monday.
Spanish stock market falls by 0.91 perce...
MADRID, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Spanish share values fell by 0.91 percent on Wednesday with the benchmark stock market index Ibex-35 opening on 9,492.30 points and closing on 9,405.60 points. 27 of the
Chinese shares close mixed Thursday
BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese stocks closed mixed on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.44 percent to 2,940.95 points. The Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.29 percen
Taiwan's industrial output falls for 3rd...
TAIPEI, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan's industrial production dropped for the third consecutive month in February, due to a global economic slowdown and weakening demand for cellphones. The industrial
U.S. economic growth in Q4 revised down ...
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2018 was revised down to an annual rate of 2.2 percent, from the previously reported 2.6 percent, the U.S. Commerce
U.S. stocks close lower amid mixed econo...
NEW YORK, March 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday, as investors digested a batch of mixed economic data and a senior U.S. Federal Reserve official's cautious speech. The Dow Jones Indu
China's major textile manufacturer Ruyi ...
JINAN, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Shandong Ruyi Technology Group Co. Ltd., a major textile manufacturer in China, announced Wednesday it recorded a 39.58 percent year-on-year growth in net profit for 2018.
TORONTO, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Canadian main stock market rose Tuesday due to gains of health-care stocks. The Toronto Stock Exchange's benchmark Standard Poor's/TSX Composite Index was up 48.41 points
3rd LD: Bukele declares victory in El Sa...
SAN SALVADOR, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Nayib Bukele declared victory in El Salvador's presidential elections on Sunday after securing a decisive lead over his two main rivals. According to preliminary resu