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US, China to resume trade talks next week
Jul 24, 2019 (AFP)
The meetings in Shanghai on Tuesday and Wednesday will be the first face-to-face discussions since negotiations collapsed in May after President Donald Trump ac...
IMF downgrades world growth, warns of 'precarious' 2020
Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)
Trade conflicts are undercutting investment and weakening manufacturing, and the IMF urged countries to avoid using tariffs to resolve their differences. In the...
US importers find ways to adapt to, skirt Trump's tariffs
Jul 21, 2019 (AFP)
Companies in sectors such as technology, clothing and footwear are exporting more goods from emerging giants including Vietnam and Malaysia, data show. At the s...
Bank of England notes its 325 years with trip back in time
Jul 21, 2019 (AFP)
Britain's central bank is the second oldest in the world after that of Sweden, and its trip back through time means returning to the days when its banknotes wer...
China opens up finance sector to more foreign investment
Jul 20, 2019 (AFP)
China will remove shareholding limits on foreign ownership of securities, insurance and fund management firms in 2020, one year earlier than originally planned,...
Chile lowers 2019 copper price projection as Chinese demand falls
Jul 18, 2019 (AFP)
In its second-quarterly report the Chilean Copper Commission (COCHILCO) also reduced its 2020 projection from $3.08 to $2.90 a pound, it said in a statement. Th...
US hopes China to undo backtracking on trade: official
Jul 17, 2019 (AFP)
US and Chinese officials held high-level discussions by telephone this week and last as they try to re-start negotiations. The talks collapsed in May after Wash...
Swiss agree to extradite suspected Chinese 'pharma spy' to US
Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)
Gongda Xue, aged around 50 and living in Switzerland, is the brother of Yu Xue, a biochemist who last year pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from drugmak...
Trade deal binds Bolsonaro to Paris pact, EU official
Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)
In an interview with AFP, Cecilia Malmstrom said the EU-Mercosur treaty was a "good deal that does not sacrifice" European agriculture, hailing one of the last ...
US senators warn of 'trust' gap over Facebook digital currency
Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)
The lawmakers were the latest to criticize Facebook's digital coin plan unveiled last month with two dozen partners and touted as a way to lower costs and facil...
Malaysia to challenge EU palm oil curbs at WTO
Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian country is the world's second biggest palm oil producer after Indonesia and would be hit hard by the EU's plan to cut its use in biofuels by...
Beijing rebuffs Trump claims over economic slowdown
Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing and Washington have been locked in a stormy trade war that has seen them hit each other with tariffs covering more than $360 billion in two-way trade. O...
Tech tax set to dominate G7 finance minisers meeting
Jul 15, 2019 (AFP)
During the meetings Wednesday and Thursday in Chantilly, ministers are set to discuss making taxation fairer as part of wider plans by G7 leaders to address ris...
US-China trade officials to talk again 'this week': official
Jul 15, 2019 (AFP)
That would be the second call in two weeks by senior officials from Washington and Beijing as the thaw in fraught trade negotiations continues. "We expect to ha...
China GDP growth slows to 6.2% in second quarter
Jul 15, 2019 (AFP)
The slowing economy makes it more difficult for President Xi Jinping to fight back forcefully against Washington -- which is using tariffs as leverage to try to...
China police bust bitcoin miners for stealing $3 mn in electricity
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
A decentralised virtual currency, bitcoin can be produced or "mined" by banks of computers solving complex algorithms. The mining process can be very expensive ...
US trade negotiators will travel to China in 'very near future': official
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
President Donald Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping agreed to "fully engage" on trade when they met in Osaka at the end of June, and since then trade officials...
China's GDP growth seen slowing to 6.2% in second quarter: AFP poll
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
The world's second largest economy expanded 6.2 percent in April-June, the poll of 10 economists predicted, ahead of the official release of gross domestic prod...
China says US trade issues are 'definitely' resolvable
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
Washington and Beijing have hit each other with punitive tariffs covering more than $360 billion in two-way trade, damaging manufacturers on both sides of the P...
US seeks to ease dispute between S.Korea, Japan
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
South Korea said Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha in a telephone call with Pompeo brought up the intensifying row, in which Japan has ended expedited shipments o...
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