As President Obama completes his trip to China, it's a natural time to ask if trade with the greatest source of U.S. imports is a good thing or bad thing for the still battered U.S. economy
President Obama is in China this week meeting with that nation's leaders. Since China is the largest foreign owner of U.S. debt, I wonder if they are going to give Obama a free toaster.
In a world still awash in economic worry, China has stood apart as the one country that has come through the global slump with only the briefest of hiccups.
Wen Jiabao, China's premier, has pledged $10bn in new low-cost loans to Africa over the next three years and defended China's engagement against accusations it is "plundering" the continent's oil and minerals.
1: China today, say many analysts, is in a comparable position to U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century... an emerging power that the dominant global power of the time is trying to downplay. Then it was Great Britain vs. the United States. Now it is the United States vs. China.
Australia's central bank on Tuesday raised interest rates for the second time in just over a month as evidence mounts the nation's economic recovery is building momentum.
China's manufacturing sector grew last month at the fastest pace since April 2008, according to the country's official purchasing managers' index released on Sunday.
Brazil has a lot of reasons to celebrate these days. It recently won the competition to host the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the 2014 World Cup.
Rising Chinese demand helped drive South Korea's economy to its fastest growth in seven years in the third quarter, underscoring how Asia is leading the global economy and trade out of the worldwide downturn.
As President Obama completes his trip to China, it's a natural time to ask if trade with the greatest source of U.S. imports is a good thing or bad thing for the still battered U.S. economy
President Obama is in China this week meeting with that nation's leaders. Since China is the largest foreign owner of U.S. debt, I wonder if they are going to give Obama a free toaster.
In a world still awash in economic worry, China has stood apart as the one country that has come through the global slump with only the briefest of hiccups.
Wen Jiabao, China's premier, has pledged $10bn in new low-cost loans to Africa over the next three years and defended China's engagement against accusations it is "plundering" the continent's oil and minerals.
1: China today, say many analysts, is in a comparable position to U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century... an emerging power that the dominant global power of the time is trying to downplay. Then it was Great Britain vs. the United States. Now it is the United States vs. China.
Australia's central bank on Tuesday raised interest rates for the second time in just over a month as evidence mounts the nation's economic recovery is building momentum.
China's manufacturing sector grew last month at the fastest pace since April 2008, according to the country's official purchasing managers' index released on Sunday.
Brazil has a lot of reasons to celebrate these days. It recently won the competition to host the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the 2014 World Cup.
Rising Chinese demand helped drive South Korea's economy to its fastest growth in seven years in the third quarter, underscoring how Asia is leading the global economy and trade out of the worldwide downturn.
Anyone scanning recent business headlines in China would not recognise the country where people supposedly save and never spend. In September, China Mobile's customer base crossed the half billion mark -- a powerful symbol of the awesome size of the Chinese consumer market.
At the UNIDO/UNEP/UN ESCAP/ILO conference on green industry in Asia, held in Manila, the Philippines in the second week of September, I proposed the formation of an International Green Finance Association in support of green industry and green economy in general.
You wouldn't think the men who run the oil-rich country of Nigeria would have much spring in their step these days. The nation is plagued by a never-ending guerrilla war, one that has trimmed the country's oil production to two-thirds of its potential capacity.
Great. The global economy finally starts to show signs of emerging from the recession and now a possible trade war between the U.S. and China is throwing a monkey wrench into the recovery.
China's manufacturing sector expanded for the sixth straight month in August to a 16-month high, according to the official purchasing managers' index, an indication that the economy continued to see strong recovery.
China's stocks fell on Tuesday, one day after the nation's premier warned against overly optimistic signs of a recovery from the global financial downturn.
The financial crisis has wreaked havoc on many a money manager, but not Samson Capital Advisors, a firm that offers bond and currency investments to endowments and high-net worth individuals and families.
China's surging economy slowed slightly in July as state-controlled banks heeded Beijing's instructions to rein in excessive lending, with the volume of new lending dropping 77 percent from a month earlier.
Commodity prices are flashing a danger signal for the world economy. Generally, price spikes occur at the peak of economic cycles. This time however, a sharp rebound is coinciding with an economic trough.
As the U.S. stock market tosses and turns, sustainable growth -- both in corporate profits and economic output -- seems far off. In China, on the other hand, recovery already seems to be a reality: Real estate, auto, and industrial sales have all bounced back this year, driving stocks on the Shanghai exchange up 50% since February. The velocity of the Chinese rebound surprised the World Bank, which recently increased its estimate for the country's GDP growth this year from 6.5% to 7.2%. Jing Ulrich, J.P. Morgan's Chinese equities strategist, thinks that figure is still too low. "China can still achieve 8% growth," she says. "Everything is happening very fast there."
China can expect 7.2 percent growth in 2009, according to the World Bank, which says the country's fiscal policies in the face of a global financial slowdown have kept the Chinese economy "growing respectably."
China can expect 7.2% growth in 2009, according to the World Bank, which says the country's fiscal policies in the face of a global financial slowdown have kept the Chinese economy "growing respectably."
Soon after the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, China became a world pariah. Bill Clinton, while campaigning for the U.S. presidency, condemned the country's leadership as the "butchers of Beijing," and the European Union imposed a ban on military sales to China that remains in place today.
It's only fitting that General Motors, once the embodiment of U.S. economic might, decided to sell its Hummer brand to a Chinese manufacturer after GM filed for bankruptcy.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is set to meet with several high-ranking members of the Chinese leadership this week, marking the Obama administration's first major overture to the powerhouse nation.
Global economic troubles are fueling a human-rights crisis, Amnesty International warned as it released its "Report 2009: State of the World's Human Rights" on Thursday.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will travel to China later this month, marking the Obama administration's first overture to the powerhouse nation whose economy is tightly intertwined with efforts to reverse the global downturn.
It feels nothing like 2007 these days, except in one respect: Chinese stocks are outperforming again. The MSCI China Index, which tracks stocks traded in Hong Kong, has climbed 67% since late October (the S&P 500 has risen 2% in that time).
China's economy grew 6.1 percent in the first quarter of 2009, down from 6.8 percent last quarter and from 10.6 percent year-on-year, state media reported on Thursday.
China, holder of nearly $1 trillion in U.S. debt, will keep buying Treasuries, but will keep a close eye on their value just the same, a Chinese government official said.
Government debt prices fell Monday as stock prices soared after the Treasury Department unveiled its plan to partner with private investors to buy up banks' troubled assets.
Beijing has high expectations for U.S. President Barack Obama's economic recovery strategy, but worries remain about the safety of China's assets in the United States, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Friday.
Chinese exports plunged 25.7 percent, to $64.90 billion, in February compared with the previous year, the government reported Wednesday, as the once-white hot economy fell victim to the international economic downturn.
In the early evening light, on a block that once bustled but is now deathly quiet, Li Zhong-he walks to the front gate of the factory where he used to work. There he looks for his name on a sheaf of papers. They are notices from a local administrative court, granting small unemployment payments to workers like Li and the hundreds of others who were left without jobs when their company, Hejun Toy Manufacturing, ceased operation.
The National People's Congress -- the marquee event of China's political calendar -- opened Thursday with Premier Wen Jiabao pledging economic growth amid a growing national deficit and the global financial crisis.
China's National People's Congress convened Thursday in Beijing, with Premier Wen Jiabao saying China's economy eyed an 8 percent growth target and that the nation was ready to end "a state of hostility" with Taiwan.
Job losses triggered by the global financial crisis have driven some 20 million Chinese workers from cities back to their rural homelands, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency.
China's economic growth slumped to 9 percent for 2008, according to numbers released by the government Thursday -- in line with expectations, but still the slowest rate the nation has seen in seven years.
China's sharp economic slowdown is set to cause more labor unrest amid factory closures and mass layoffs triggered by the global financial crisis, a government minister and economists have warned.
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