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ThinkstockThe beginning of the end of information censorship in China was supposed to come as micro-blogging gained popularity and as sites like Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and CNN could no...
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ThinkstockA shrinking global economy took a heavy toll on producers of nonprecious metals in 2012. Prices for base and industrial metals like copper, iron ore, and aluminum fell sharply as demand...
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ThinkstockShares of a host of shipping companies are getting a big boost today on a report from Bloomberg that the 2013 outlook for shipping rates, especially for iron ore, are set to rise...
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ThinkstockIn yet one more sign that China has not only dodged the recession but it has been largely unaffected by the troubled economies of the rest of the world, the services sector of the...
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ThinkstockRevenue rose to $35 billion at the Chinese special administrative region of Macau in 2012, up 13.5% for the year after posting a record rise of nearly 20% in December. Predictions of a...
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ThinkstockTwo pieces of financial news highlighted the past day. Congress has been unable to reach a compromise on budget cuts and taxes, which could easily drive the U.S. economy into a first-half...
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ThinkstockApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was hit with a copyright penalty in China. The Xinhua news agency reports: A Beijing court ruled against Apple Inc. in a copyright dispute on Thursday, saying the...
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ThinkstockChina’s Institute of World Economy and Politics has turned pessimistic on the world’s economy. And the institute’s analysts believe that the U.S. fiscal cliff problem could cause a...
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ThinkstockFocus Media Holding Ltd. (NASDAQ: FMCN) has announced that it has accepted an offer of $5.50 per ordinary share ($27.50 per American Depositary Share) from firms that will be controlled by...
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ThinkstockAfter a year when East Asian and Pacific (EAP) GDP growth fell to 7.5% from 8.3% in 2011, the coming year should see EAP growth rise again to 7.9%, the highest of any developing region of...
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courtesy of Apple Inc.It’s a long way from the report of the one lonely guy outside an Apple store in Shanghai to Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) press release this morning claiming that the weekend...
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courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) finally has released the iPhone 5 in China. Most press and many analysts believe that the American company’s market share in the People’s Republic...
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ThinkstockHSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index posted a better-than-expected number of 50.9 for December. The manufacturing sector of the People’s Republic is on the mend. At the...
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ThinkstockChina may be the world’s growth engine and the world’s manufacturer, but some still consider it the short-sell of a lifetime. There is also very rarely any middle ground on the subject...
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ThinkstockAfter markets closed on Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that the government had approved both the $15.1 billion sale of Nexen Inc. (NYSE: NXY) to China’s Cnooc...
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