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China’s factory output dropped to 9.2% for the month of July. The figure should be the envy of most of the world’s other large economies. But it was a three-year low for China and confirmed what...
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Three of China’s bigger Internet players reported earnings this morning, and the results are lifting virtually all of the country’s Internet stocks. The leader is Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU), up...
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Chinese online video game company Youku.com Inc. (NYSE: YOKU) reported a net loss for the second quarter of RMB387.4 million ($9.9 million), but that its revenue nearly doubled from a year ago to...
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Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) shares reach an all-time low as doubts about its business model grow. (Reuters) China’s PMI for July falls. (Reuters) Home prices may have steadied, according to...
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Twice a month, economists hold their collective breath as China PMI data are issued. One set of numbers comes from huge bank HSBC (NYSE: HBC) and the other from the People’s Republic itself. The...
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Research firm Rhodium Group told CNNMoney that China’s direct investment in the United States may reach a record in 2012. This is despite trade and currency tensions between the world’s two...
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Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) had already sold off massively due to the slowing trends in Asia. Now things have gone from bad to worse, and the worst of the news flow out of Asia may have not...
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Another nail in the coffin of the outlook of China’s economy was pounded in by the International Monetary Fund. The sentiment about the near-term future of gross domestic product and exports in the...
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Following the lead of several US solar panel makers, European solar makers are set to launch a complaint with the European Commission accusing China’s solar panel makers of selling solar PV cells...
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Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) may buy a unit of United Technologies (NYSE: UTX). (Reuters) More factories move to the United States as China’s manufacturing costs rise. (Reuters) The CEOs of Apple (NASDAQ:...
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China’s factory activity continued to contract in July, but the figure was much better than it has been in several months. Economists took this as a net positive sign. The HSBC China...
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China’s largest offshore oil and gas company, CNOOC Ltd. (NYSE: CEO), has agreed to acquire Canadian oil and gas firm Nexen Inc. (NYSE: NXY) for $15.1 billion in cash, or $27.50 per share. The...
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Economic contagion has spread to China, as the markets there signal deep concern. The Hang Seng fell 3% overnight as the reality that Europe will undermine growth in the People’s Republic set in....
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China’s Ministry of Commerce will begin an antidumping investigation into imports of U.S.-made and Korean-made polysilicon, the stuff that is used to make crystalline solar cells. The investigation...
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When Gallup asked people about the state of the economy this spring, as a recovery appeared to have taken hold, the polling company found “nearly half of Americans, 46%, still say the economy is in...
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