Over the past year, oil prices rose considerably in reaction to the Arab spring, reaching close to $126 per barrel in last April at the peak of the Libyan crisis. Since then, prices have not returned to the moderate levels of 2010, when the average price for the year was around $80 per barrel. Instead, […]
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In 2009, the People’s Bank of China used Shanghai to kick off a trial program to permit Chinese companies to settle cross-border trade in yuan—which has now expanded to include the rest of the country. Once again a new trial program will be launched in Shanghai. The yuan-fund program is “under preparation”, Fang Xinghai, director-general
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European share markets have closed lower, with investors hesitant after recent gains on concerns over China and the eurozone and data showed the British economy in worse shape than first thought. The British economy contracted 0.3% in the final three months of 2011 compared to the previous quarter, the U.K. Office for National Statistics reported
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Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, said it would work alone and in cooperation with other producers to ensure adequate global supplies of crude oil, market stability and fair prices, Dow Jones Newswires reported. Traders also stressed over news China have raised pump prices for diesel and gasoline, seen as leading to higher crude
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Giving the closing address at the end of China’s yearly parliamentary session on today, Premier Wen claimed the state had no intention to relax its austerity position because while housing costs have just shown signals of easing, they were still too high. The official Xinhua agency reported: [quote]If we develop the home market blindly, a
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It’s quite fascinating to note that whilst there is a Chinese delegation visiting Washington to meet with Barack Obama a European delegation is visiting Beijing. Whilst in the USA the Chinese officials have been very vocal their support of Europe (and the euro in isolation) similarly the European delegation in Beijing have been met with
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The Baltic Dry Index And Chinese Import Figures Tell The Story That Most Economists Don’t Want To Hear If there was a well known and highly referenced index that had fallen by over 60% year on year not only would the investment community be deeply concerned, the mainstream media would be catatonic in it’s reaction.
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Following the Battle of Plassey in 1757, in which Britain annexed Bengal to its empire, the British East India Company pursued a monopoly on production and export of Indian opium. The monopoly began in earnest in 1773, the British Governor-General of Bengal abolished the opium syndicate at Patna. For the next fifty years opium trade
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China’s city dwelling urban population has finally surpassed those living in the countryside for the first time in the nation’s more than 5,000 years of ‘recorded’ history. The number of people living in towns and cities increased by 21 million to 690.79 million at the end of 2011, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
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It’s actually an urban myth that the great wall of China is “visible from the moon” or visible from orbit with the naked eye unless we’re accepting that using Google earth amounts to the same. The claim the Great Wall is visible has been debunked many times but is still ingrained in popular culture. The
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