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Pound holds its ground after May's Brexit battering
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
Sterling tanked to a near two-year low soon after the government's proposal on leaving the EU was soundly beaten on Tuesday evening, but it soon bounced back as...
China's growth data may mask economic risks: research group
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
Data due next week is expected to show the world's number-two economy expanded around 6.5 percent last year, its slowest rate in almost three decades as a globa...
From sizzle to fizzle: Hong Kong's red-hot property market cools
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
The crammed financial hub regularly tops the list of cities with the least affordable housing in the world, with even cheap apartments out of the reach of most ...
Chinese premier vows measures to support the economy
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
Growth in the world's second largest economy is flagging, dragged down by the trade dispute with the US, and growth should slip to 6.2 percent this year accordi...
Bolsonaro to headline Davos meet in Trump's absence
Jan 15, 2019 (AFP)
The World Economic Forum on Tuesday unveiled its lineup for the annual meeting at the luxury Swiss ski resort town, where this year's focus is on "Shaping the G...
China's trade surplus with the US grew in 2018 but tariffs bite
Jan 14, 2019 (AFP)
The surplus with the US is a major source of anger within the Trump administration, which imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Chinese go...
Trump says trade deal with China likely
Jan 14, 2019 (AFP)
"We are doing very well with China. They're having a hard time with their economy because of the tariffs," Trump told reporters at the White House. "I think tha...
China will tackle US trade dispute in 2019: minister
Jan 13, 2019 (AFP)
A large US delegation ended a three-day visit to Beijing Wednesday in the first face to face trade talks since President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinp...
Environment, labour concerns delaying China-backed free trade pact
Jan 11, 2019 (AFP)
The 16-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has been hailed as an antidote to Trump-era protectionism, particularly after the US leader pu...
US firm cuts China supplier over forced labour concerns
Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)
Badger Sportswear, a company based in North Carolina, said it would stop sourcing clothing from Hetian Taida in Xinjiang. "Out of an abundance of caution and to...
China factory gate inflation dives as trade war rumbles on
Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)
The producer price index (PPI) -- an important barometer of the industrial sector that measures the cost of goods at the factory gate -- rose 0.9 percent on-yea...
China says US trade talks 'laid foundation' to resolve concerns
Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)
US officials visited Beijing from Monday to Wednesday for the first sit-down talks since President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on December...
US official says China trade talks 'went just fine'
Jan 09, 2019 (AFP)
The US officials arrived in Beijing on Monday for the first sit-down talks since President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on December 1 to a ...
US, China hold more trade talks overshadowed by Kim visit
Jan 08, 2019 (AFP)
This is the first time the two sides have met face-to-face since US President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping agreed to a tariff truce during a meeting in...
US negotiators in Beijing for trade war talks
Jan 07, 2019 (AFP)
The visiting delegation, led by Deputy US Trade Representative Jeffrey Gerrish, left its hotel in Beijing Monday morning without speaking to reporters for a fir...
Trade war 'certainly' hurting China economy: US official
Jan 07, 2019 (AFP)
Ross's remarks emphasized President Donald Trump's confidence that the robust US economy means Washington can outlast Beijing in a test of wills over trade. "It...
China could put reforms on hold to boost economy: analysts
Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)
The way ahead is further complicated by a volatile trade dispute with the United States that -- if unresolved -- will add to the burden of Beijing's policymaker...
Trump says confident in US trade deal with China
Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)
"I think we will make a deal with China," Trump said at the White House, and noted that talks are underway with China "at the highest levels." With the Chinese ...
China's Xi pledges to continue reforms, open markets
Jan 01, 2019 (AFP)
Xi said that in 2018 -- 40 years since the transformation led by Deng Xiaoping -- the country had enacted "systematic, holistic and reconstructive reforms of th...
China's top court to handle intellectual property appeals
Dec 30, 2018 (AFP)
Washington and Beijing are currently in talks to resolve a bruising trade spat that has spooked markets worldwide. The two sides imposed tit-for-tat tariffs on ...
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