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Gallup has issued a poll about the attitude of the Chinese toward pollution. Experts have believed for a long time that the People’s Republic does not care much about clean water or air when those...
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It was good news on the surface that China decided to cut its overnight interest rates. We have not seen this since during the great recession and most expected China to just lower its reserve...
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China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, has announced an interest rate cut of 0.25% on both its lending and deposit rates. The new rates, which take effect tomorrow, will lower the...
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China’s investment in Europe tripled to $10 billion in 2011, compared to the amount in 2006 to 2009. But that is not very much money, given the size of the European economy. Research firm Rhodium...
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China, India, Brazil… all part of the BRIC nations along with Russia. The growth of those three nations has been slowing and the concern is growing that these nations and much of Latin America...
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Last week China’s State Council adopted a plan to further develop seven industries that the government has declared strategic, even as the country’s economy slows down. The plan includes the...
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Coal stocks are taking another hit today, although there has been a slight bounce in the late morning. Buyers must hold the opinion that the stocks have reached or nearly reached a bottom. Certainly...
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As of the end of 2011, Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) had spent $101.5 million on developing a project in Macau for which it did not have the required land rights. The government had rejected the...
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China’s PMI indicates a considerable slowing of its economy. (Reuters) Senior EC and ECB officials warn that the eurozone is on the brink of a calamity. (Reuters) Problems at Research In Motion...
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The US Department of Commerce and its International Trade Administration have imposed countervailing duties on imports of utility scale wind towers manufactured in China. The tariffs range from...
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China’s Ministry of Commerce told the nation’s official news agency, Xinhua, that the People’s Republic will be the country with the most online retail volume in the world by 2013. U.S....
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China’s government leaders say that any stimulus they might add to the economy in the People’s Republic will be nowhere close to the $600 billion invested in 2008. They claim that China does not...
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The single most important word in world markets for base metals and steel is “China.” With the slow-motion economic recovery in the global economy, the expected 8% or so growth in Chinese GDP...
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Natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) has reportedly struck a deal to sell about 504,000 net acres of leasehold in the northern part of the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) basin, which...
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The rise in US natural gas production from shale has cut the use of coal as a power generation fuel by about 20%. Natural gas, which emits about half the CO2 of coal, has also contributed heavily to...
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