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ThinkstockChina remains the world’s fastest growing large economy. Even if its GDP improvement has slowed, the leadership of the People’s Republic still expects gross domestic product to rise...
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ThinkstockWhen Chinese officials reported late Friday that the country’s exports had fallen 18.1% in February, the news came on top of another event that was perhaps even more nerve-rattling. The...
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ThinkstockThe government of Indonesia in January banned the export of all raw materials and then introduced an escalating export tax of 20% to 25% on copper concentrate sent out of the country. The...
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Wikimedia CommonsGap’s (NYSE: GPS) earnings in the fourth quarter and for the 2013 fiscal year were good enough to get modest applause from Wall Street. However, unlike other large American...
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ThinkstockThe Chinese renminbi, or yuan, is still pegged to the U.S. dollar. China has been accused of being a currency manipulator in the past, even though almost every nation is a currency...
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Baidu was hitting new all-time highs in the after-hours trading session Wednesday night. The problem is that we have seen one key upgrade and one key downgrade from Wall Street analysts on Thursday.
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courtesy of BaiduBaidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is setting itself up to challenge new all-time highs after its quarterly earnings report. With how late this earnings report was compared to prior years, it...
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Weibo, the Chinese social-media platform often compared to Twitter, may go public in the second quarter. The move comes as the government cracks down on the expression of politically sensitive...
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Because of its size, China Mobile has become the most important battleground in the world among these smartphone manufacturers. Every major manufacturer of smartphones wants a partnership with the...
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ThinkstockWeakness in France, the second largest nation in the eurozone, put a damper on business activity in the 18-nation bloc overall, according to Markit’s Composite Purchasing Managers’...
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Even though some of the poorest people in the world can be found in emerging Asia, financial wealth there is on a path to outpace that of the United States by 2015, according to a new report from...
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ThinkstockThe top country for new car sales in 2013 was China, where just over 21.9 million new cars were sold, an increase of almost 15% from 2012. The Middle Kingdom now accounts for one quarter of...
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Wikimedia CommonsBitcoin has been facing its own identity crisis of late, and its future is back to looking very uncertain. After MtGox suspended withdrawals and after widespread reports of Bitcoin...
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Melco Crown Entertainment, one of Macau's biggest casino operators, said profit doubled in the fourth quarter, thanks to its ability to attract so-called premium mass market gamblers.
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courtesy Ford Motor Co.The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Thursday that 1.85 million passenger vehicles were purchased in China in January, a record for monthly sales in the...
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