Official data today revealed Chinese consumer prices reached a 16-month high last month - the fourth straight monthly rise.
The National Bureau of Statistics said consumer price inflation rose to 2.7% in February compared with a year earlier and up from 1.5% in January.
Analysts had expected a rate of...
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on 03-11-2010
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The Federal Statistics Office today announced a fall in German exports for the month of January, with the cold weather being attributed to the fall, according to analysts.
Exports in January fell by 6.3% on the month to €67.9 billion, while imports grew by 6% to €59.2 billion.
As a result, Germany’s...
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on 03-10-2010
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on 03-10-2010
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Sitting in his office in Tokyo last week, a senior official pointed to a recently published volume called “Japan Rising”. “I look at that book every now and then to cheer myself up,” he said. It is easy to understand why. Right now, Japan has got that sinking feeling.
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on 03-08-2010
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