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Chinese Economy Likely To Maintain Steady, Rapid Growth In 2010: PBOC
2010.07.07
China’s economy is very likely to maintain steady and rapid growth in 2010, with more positive factors than last year boosting the economy, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), China’s central bank, said Wednesday. But the nation’s economy still faces aRead More + -
The Yuan And The Failure Of Diplomacy
2010.07.02
When the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meets on Wednesday, no one expects it to raise the federal funds rate - the overnight bank rate that now hovers below 0.25%. However, businesses, politicians and prognosticators are eager, perhaps inappropriately so, to hear clues about when it will begin raising short-term interest rates to a more normal level.Read More + -
Australian Consumer Confidence Drops In June
2010.07.02
AUSTRALIAN consumer sentiment dropped significantly for a second straight month in June, providing more evidence the Reserve Bank of Australia may remain on hold for the time being after raising rates aggressively in the past nine months. For June, an index of consumerRead More + -
Headache Avoided, Hurdles Ahead
2010.06.22
AN OLD Yugoslav song celebrated the unity of the country from the Vardar, the river that runs through Macedonia, to Triglav, Slovenia’s highest mountain. Today’s ex-Yugoslav policymakers from the Vardar to Triglav are once againRead More + -
Obama Doctrine Hinges On Economy
2010.06.22
Barack Obama issued formal burial rites for the George W. Bush neoconservative era with the release of his first national security strategy, which calls for a “renewal of American leadership” by working with other countries and reinvigorating the domesticRead More + -
NRF Predicts Retail Sales Will Rise 2.5% In 2010
2010.02.04
Retail could return to 2007 levels by 2011 if recovery continues as forecast. Expecting the job and housing markets to improve this year, the National Retail Federation today predicted 2010 retail sales will climb 2.5% comparedRead More + -
Chinese Exports Reture To Growth
2010.01.15
China’s exports rose in December for the first time in 14 months, providing fresh evidence of recovery in the global economy but also placing renewed pressure on Beijing to appreciate itsRead More + -
20 Fair Trade Vendors Will Be Represented
2010.01.07
In January, the California Gift Show and the Fair Trade Federation are joining forces again to offer the largest Fair Trade Pavilion in the industry, Jan. 15-18, 2010.Read More + -
London Retail Sales Show Best Growth For Three Years
2009.12.21
The BRCs London Retail Sales Monitor reports that sales in the capital were 13.3% higher, on a like-for-like basis, than November last year, postingRead More + -
China's Monetary Policy To Remain Unchanged
2009.08.10
The Chinese government will not change its stimulus policies because it could derail its hard-won economic recovery, though record bank lendingRead More +