Asian Shares Higher; Nikkei Rises 0.6% The Street Gains were modest across the region as investors waited for U.S. employment figures due out later Friday. August's jobless rate is expected to rise to 9.6% from 9.5% in July, according to a survey of analysts by Thomson Reuters. | Global markets have tumbled the past month as doubts surfaced about t...
Strong Yen Helps to Fuel Germany's Export Boom The New York Times | FRANKFURT — There was a touch of schadenfreude in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg whose orange industrial robots are a common site on auto assembly lines around the world. | Kuka said last month that its sales had bounced back ...
Chinese stocks bloom in isolation China Daily 2010-09-04 10:04:43.0Chen WeihuaChinese stocks bloom in isolationUnited States,investors,Chinese companies,listed,stock marketsMarkets11022003Money2@webnews/enpproperty--> | Nation's growth offsets gloom in US, say fund managers | NEW YORK - Despite ...
Lenders still on a strong footing: Economists China Daily 2010-09-04 09:14:42.0Wang Bo and Xin ZhimingLenders still on a strong footing: Economistsbank,interest rate,flexible,impactBanking11022003Money2@webnews/enpproperty--> | Interest rate fluctuations to have little impact on profit margins | CHANGCHUN -...
Iran stores abundant fuel oil supply on VLCCs Daily Star Lebanon | Move prompted by China’s poor feedstock demand, financing difficulties due to Western sanctions | Saturday, September 04, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | Yaw Yan Chong and Luke Pachymuthu | Reuters | SINGAPORE: The Islamic Republic has been storing s...
'Let's buy land in China' NZ Herald 7:20 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | New Zealanders should have the right to buy land in China, says a farm group leader. | "We are saying let's have like with like," Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson said in an interview on Bloomb...
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Amartya Sen’s vision of learning Deccan Herald By Anil Sinha Friday, September 03, 2010 --> | It is a different world of learning; totally different from what we are acquainted with. We have almost accepted the kind of schools ...
Twitter and Facebook 'bringing back regional dialects' The Daily Telegraph Age-old regional dialects from around the country are undergoing a resurgence thanks to social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. | The Twitter homepage | Language expe...
Asian automakers post robust sales for August Gulf News | Seoul/Beijing: Asian auto sales rose strongly in August, benefiting from government moves to encourage purchases of new and cleaner vehicles, though an uncertain US economy ...
China Sky Sinks; Brocade Gets Pop The Street NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of China Sky One Medical(CSKI) were plunging in afterhours action late Friday after the Chinese drug developer lowered its outlook for the rest of the year, citing the loss of a number of distribution partners. | The pr...
Crowflight still talking to Jinchuan on offer Mining Weekly | TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Nickel-miner Crowflight Minerals is still in negotiations with representatives from China's Jinchuan Group on a potential takeover of the company, Crowflight said on Friday. | The offer technically expired on August 3...
China Sky One Medical Updates Financial Guidance for 2010 Insurance Newsnet | HARBIN, China, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Sky One Medical, Inc. ("China Sky One Medical" or "the Company") (Nasdaq: CSKI), a leading fully integrated pharmaceutical company in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announce...
StanChart sees strong interest in yuan use DNA India | Standard Chartered Plc is seeing strong interest from its clients in using the yuan for trade settlement, a senior executive said today, following Chinese moves to internationalise its currency. | There was also growing demand for yuan-denominated products in Hong Kong and the region, which would help the territory's yuan market reach the cri...
