For the third consecutive month in the year to December, the core consumer prices of Japan fell and mild deflation is expected to persist this year as energy prices stabilize and worries about the debt crisis of Europe suppress wage growth and economic activity.
Core consumer prices declined an annual 0.1 percent and retail sales fell [...]
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No Comments »The China Daily, quoting a government official, reported on Wednesday that the Chinese government is planning new policies for boosting domestic consumption, particularly of vehicles and appliances, in a bid to offset the effects of sagging export demand.
Huang Hai, former assistant minister of commerce and a member of the economic and trade policy consulting committee [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: domestic consumption, export demand, tax rebates, trade policy No Comments »In their first trading session of the year on Monday, European stocks ended higher and were led by defensive utilities such as E.ON (EONGn.DE) and GDF Suez (GSZ.PA), while volumes were anemic as UK and U.S. markets remained closed for the New Year holiday.
The FTSEurofirst 300 .FTEU3 index of top European shares provisionally closed 1 [...]
U.S. authorities hunting in Swiss banks for suspected tax cheats have a new weapon that is backed by court judges. Federal prosecutors are issuing subpoenas, official papers which compel the recipients to provide potentially damning evidence, to taxpayers of the United States who are suspected of holding hidden accounts at Swiss and other offshore banks, [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: criminal defense lawyers, law firm, offshore banks, Swiss banks No Comments »On Friday, the Yuan jumped to a record high on suspected intervention orchestrated by the central bank that was aimed at deterring speculators from betting on a fall in the currency.
Large amounts of dollars via major state banks were offered by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to propel the yuan to a record high [...]
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An official of the Infrastructure Development Finance Company Ltd (IDFC) said on Wednesday that the general economic slowdown is affecting infrastructure projects with loan offtake by borrowers coming down.
‘Compared to the last fiscal, there is a relative slowdown in the sanction and disbursal of loans. During the first six months of the current fiscal, our [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: AAA rating, credit rating agencies, IDFC, infrastructure projects, loan disbursal No Comments »A foreign direct investment (FDI) of 26 percent has been allowed by the cabinet in the pension sector. The cabinet, however, refused any assured return to subscribers in the proposed pension regulatory bill.
A government official said the government would not mention any FDI cap in the legislation as it aims to retain the flexibility to [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: FDI, foreign direct investment, pension regulatory bill, pension schemes No Comments »On Friday, U.S. stocks fell for a seventh straight session to lead global equity markets to their worst week in two months on fear that Europe’s debt crisis is dragging on without a credible solution.
The single currency euro hit a seven-week low against the dollar and the USD climbed to a near eight-month high against [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: debt crisis, equity markets, euro, holiday shopping, single currency, Wall Street No Comments »On Friday, stocks took another pounding after borrowing rates of Italy ratcheted higher following a pair of hugely disappointing auctions from the eurozone’s third-largest economy.
The auction results are another sign that the new technocratic government of Italy faces a big battle to convince the markets it has a strategy to get a grip on the [...]
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