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ThinkstockVolkswagen believes it can see the future of the car industry in China and its own place in that future. The German manufacturer will increase its production capacity in the People’s...
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courtesy of Volkswagen of AmericaVolkswagen is already at the top of the auto sales food chain in China, tied most months with General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM). But despite a flattening in growth in...
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For anybody that has missed the big stock market rally, it can be very disheartening to watch as anchors on every business and news channel talk about indices hitting all-time highs day after day....
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ThinkstockWhen the commodity traders at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) say that commodities may be oversold right now they exclude gold from the rest of the asset class. In the near term, the...
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ThinkstockData about China’s economic recovery continue to swing back and forth. Recent information on manufacturing has been good, as have reports about exports. But, more recently, consumer...
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ThinkstockThe past year is one that the solar industry would just as soon forget. Global solar installation grew by a paltry 4.4% in 2012, but it is expected to rise by 14.4% in 2013, led of course...
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ThinkstockChina’s exports jumped in February, which may indicate a recovery of the economy across most of the rest of the world. Or it could be that inventories of goods are low in many nations...
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courtesy of Apple Inc.By one analyst’s count, the Chinese will buy about 30% of all mobile phones shipped in 2013, or 240 million units of a total approaching 840 million worldwide shipments. While...
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ThinkstockChina has set the goal for its economic growth very low compared to what it has been in the past decade — only 7.5% improvement in gross domestic product. The central government of the...
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ThinkstockChinese solar maker Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: YGE) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 earnings this morning. Revenues were much better than expected, but earnings...
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ThinkstockThe Shanghai Composite, the exchange where most large Chinese companies trade, dropped 3.7%. The reason stated by experts was that planned government restrictions on cheap money for home...
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ThinkstockFor more than a year now, the big story about Glencore International Ltd. has been its effort to take over mining company Xstrata. But an exclusive report at Reuters today could change all...
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courtesy of NetflixChina’s PMI slips to a slow 50.1 in February, a signal of slacking demand for manufactured goods. (Reuters) Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) fires its CEO after poor financial...
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ThinkstockChesapeake Energy Inc. (NYSE: CHK) parted with about $13 billion in assets last year in an effort to reduce the company’s massive debt burden. The sell-off for the new year is just...
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ThinkstockChina’s economy has recovered, or perhaps it has not. The results continue to ping-pong around. The latest data released by HSBC and Markit show preliminary PMI for February for the...
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