Tokyo’s Nikkei closes up 4.94 percent on weaker yen
AFPJune 11, 2013, 12:11 am TWN
TOKYO — Tokyo stocks surged 4.94 percent Monday on the back of a weaker yen and better-than-expected U.S. jobs data.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index, which lost 6.51 percent last week, closed up 636.67 [...]
Tokyo shares plummet by 7.3 percent in biggest fall since tsunami
By Shingo Ito ,AFPMay 24, 2013, 12:06 am TWN
TOKYO — Panicky investors dumped shares on the Tokyo market Thursday, sending the main index plunging more than seven percent on weak Chinese data after months of sharp climbs.
The Nikkei [...]
Mexican government lowers 2013 growth forecast to 3.1 percent
MEXICO CITY, May 17 (Xinhua) — Mexico’s Finance Ministry ( SHCP) Friday lowered the 2013 gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast from 3.5 to 3.1 percent.
At a press conference, SHCP’s Assistant Secretary Fernando Aportela [...]
IDC: Android topped tablet share in Q1 at 57 percent, Apple led manufacturers
We were expecting a changing of the guard among tablets given the rise of several competitors throughout in 2012, and we’ve seen just that in IDC’s market share estimates for the first quarter of 2013. The research firm shows Android [...]
China’s First-Quarter GDP Growth Slips to 7.7 Percent
[unable to retrieve full-text content]China’s economic recovery unexpectedly stumbled in the first three months of 2013 as the annual rate of growth eased from the 7.9 percent pace set in the final quarter of last year, official data showed [...]
CPIC’s 2012 net profit down 39 percent
China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co Ltd, or CPIC, said Sunday that its 2012 net profit dropped by 38.9 percent year-on-year due to decrease of investment yield and slowdown of business growth.
Its net profit hit 5.077 billion yuan ($ 809.6 [...]
GM Suffers From Chinese New Year Effect, Sales Down 10 Percent In Feb 2013
The Chinese New Year has claimed another victim in GM, the short month of February coupled with the long Chinese New Year holiday crippled auto sales with nearly every manufacturer posting lower sales. GM announced today that its February 2013 [...]
Canalys: Apple hits 20 percent of PCs through iPad sales, HP up to second place
Canalys is still staking its market share estimates on the view that mobile tablets are as relevant to PC market share as desktops and laptops. If we accept that interpretation, Apple was easily on top of the heap during the fourth quarter. [...]
China Predicts 50 Percent Deficit Increase in 2013
By Gao ZitanEpoch Times Staff Created: January 3, 2013 Last Updated: January 3, 2013
China’s state-run media have reported that the state deficit is estimated to increase by 400 billion yuan this year, a 50 percent increase from 0.8 trillion [...]
‘Wicked Problem:’ China’s Coral Reefs Have Shrunk by 80 Percent
By Jack PhillipsEpoch Times Staff Created: December 30, 2012 Last Updated: December 30, 2012
China’s massive, unbridled economic expansion has seriously imperiled its coral reefs, shrinking them by 80 percent in the past 30 years, a team [...]
KIA surged 14 percent year on year sales reached 5.2 million in November
2012 “Customer Satisfaction years coming to an end in November, KIA successes, a year on year increase of 14%, a record 52,000 sales, far higher than the industry’s year-on-year growth of 3.9%, successfully refresh a single month [...]
China Mobile TD-LTE terminal tender hot lead: four percent share of the high-pass
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China Mobile recently completed the first TD-LTE terminal tender, informed sources revealed that a total of nearly 10 chip suppliers to participate in the competition, but one of the high-pass accounted for 40% of the market [...]
Heavy pollution days will be suspended three percent of official vehicles
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Air Quality Index (AQI) to more than 200 heavy pollution days, Beijing will immediately start the emergency plan. Yesterday, the Beijing Municipal Government issued the “Beijing air heavy pollution day emergency program (provisional). [...]
This year’s Lunar New Year too gloomy around seventy percent of users calling a “hilarious comedy”
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[ REVIEW ] U.S. fiscal cliff slow progress of negotiations on Tuesday, U.S. stocks ended slightly lower; SEC sued four accounting firms business violations lead to China concept stocks fell, Sina fell 7.46%, the stock hit The 52-week low.
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RIM shares rise 6 percent as Goldman jumps on BB10 bandwagon
TORONTO (Reuters) – A wave of optimism surrounding the launch of Research In Motion’s re-engineered BlackBerry line picked up momentum on Thursday with Goldman Sachs raising its rating on the smartphone maker and setting off a surge [...]
Obama promises 97 percent of Americans won’t see taxes rise
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Xinhua)– U.S. President Barack Obamaon Wednesday said the most important step now was to promise Americans 97 percent of them won’t see taxes rise as the fiscal cliff loomed.
Obama stressed in a White Housenews [...]
IDC: tablet shipments up 6.7 percent in Q3 2012, Apple’s market share drops to 50.4 percent
Samsung may dominate Apple in smartphone market share, but the opposite is true for tablets. Third quarter figures from IDC suggest the tablet market grew by 6.7 percent during those three months, and 49.5 percent since the same period last [...]
Buy industry turnover down in September only ten percent of the layout of the mobile end
[ REVIEW as the month of the third quarter ending in September, but failed to extend the surge in momentum in July and August. According to the group, 800 data show September domestic buy online sales group single number 304,000, a year-on-year [...]
Old-age benefit applicants surge by 60 percent: CLA
Applicants for old-age benefits have increased more than 50 percent in recent days after the government warned that the Labor Insurance Fund could go bankrupt in a decade. Most recipients have chosen to receive the payment in one lump sum instead [...]
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