China trade growth accelerates in April
Chinese export and import growth accelerated in April, an apparent indication of strength in the economy but one that also raises questions about the quality of the data. Exports increased…
WTO head needs progress on global pact
©Reuters Back in 1999, 100,000 protesters gathered in Seattle intent on disrupting the smooth running of the World Trade Organisation meeting and its aim of liberalising trade. These days, the…
China reduces banking lifeline for N Korea
The Bank of China has stopped doing business with a large North Korean bank, falling into line with a US-led sanctions push to restrict funding for Pyongyang’s nuclear programme. The…
China seeks to alter World Bank report
©Getty Global challenge: Jim Kim, president of the World Bank, visits a training initiative on the Ivory Coast China is leading an effort to water down the World Bank’s most…
China in crackdown on faked export deals
China has vowed to crack down on companies that have been secretly channelling cash into the country after a surge in capital inflows. The clampdown follows severe discrepancies in China’s…
Levy on China solar panels risks discord
©Reuters Europe’s trade chief is pushing to impose provisional duties of about 40 per cent on Chinese solar panels in a move that risks stirring wider trade tensions with Beijing…
Markets insight: China isn’t broken
China just can’t seem to catch a break these days. For the country’s perennial naysayers, the issues facing the world’s second-largest economy are coming home to roost: slowing growth as…
Data cloud outlook for global economy
Further signs of a slowdown in manufacturing activity and trade clouded the outlook for the global economy on Wednesday after a series of closely watched polls pointed to weakening demand.…
Chinese manufacturing growth slows in April
Growth in China’s manufacturing sector slowed in April, providing further evidence of weakness in the world’s second-largest economy. China’s official purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 50.6 in April from…
Taiwan GDP growth falls to 1.5%
Taiwan’s economic growth rate dropped to just 1.5 per cent year-on-year in the first three months of 2013, down from 3.7 per cent the previous quarter, as the export-oriented economy…