TRADE WARS - INDO DAILY

Standard Chartered brings back dividends as profits jump

Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)

The Asia-focused lender said it would pay out a full-year dividend of 11 cents per share, citing "improving financial performance and strong capital". It also s...

Germany 'watchful' of Chinese investment in Daimler

Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)

"We must keep an especially watchful eye" on auto billionaire Li Shufu's investment, Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries told the Stuttgarter Zeitung. Daimler con...

Trump says China ties 'best ever' but trade a problem

Feb 23, 2018 (AFP)

"I don't think we've ever had a better relationship with China than we do right now," Trump said, using trademark hyperbole. "Other than the fact that they've b...

Funding evaporates for Nicaragua's $50 billion ocean-to-ocean canal

Feb 22, 2018 (AFP)

The project "has remained completely unfinanced because it doesn't meet reliability requirements," said Eliseo Nunez, a former opposition lawmaker who is now a ...

WTO chief urges US to avoid paralysing trade system

Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)

The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) is seen as a crucial arm of the Geneva-based WTO, offering nations a forum to work through grievances while avoiding an exchan...

HSBC profits surge as CEO departs

Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)

Net profit ballooned to $9.7 billion (7.9 billion euros) last year, from $1.3 billion in 2016 when the Asia-focused bank was hit by huge restructuring charges a...

Macau sees future in Portuguese past

Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)

Lei's decades-long love for the language has turned him into a campaigner for its survival in the southern Chinese enclave, a former Portuguese colony now best-...

After stunning growth streak, Amazon ambitions seem boundless

Feb 18, 2018 (AFP)

Amazon, launched as an internet bookseller nearly 24 years ago, has branched into offerings including voice-commanded speakers infused with Alexa artificial int...

US eyes heavy tariffs on China, Russia to counter steel, aluminum glut

Feb 16, 2018 (AFP)

The move gives President Donald Trump the opportunity to strike a highly public blow for his "America first" trade policy, but raises the prospect of retaliatio...

Trump threatens China sanctions, vows to rework S.Korea trade deal

Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)

Accusing Beijing of decimating American steel and aluminum industries, Trump said he was "considering all options," including tariffs and quotas. Trump recently...

Beijing ups trade tensions with new measures on key US chemical

Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)

China's Ministry of Commerce announced Tuesday it had found dumping of styrene imports from the US, Taiwan and South Korea in an initial ruling of an ongoing tr...

Chinese bank lending surges to record high in January

Feb 12, 2018 (AFP)

Banks in the world's second largest economy approved new loans worth a record 2.9 trillion yuan (around $458 billion) in January, the People's Bank of China (PB...

Trade on agenda as China's top envoy visits US

Feb 09, 2018 (AFP)

Yang is in Washington for two days at a time when relations between the top powers are dominated by the North Korean nuclear stand-off and President Donald Trum...

China 'worried' over US trade relations as surplus narrows

Feb 08, 2018 (AFP)

This week China announced an investigation into imports of a US agricultural product after President Donald Trump's administration launched a spate of new trade...

China looks to stamp out cryptocurrency trading

Feb 05, 2018 (AFP)

The moves were outlined in a report Sunday by Financial News, a publication under the People's Bank of China, which said the aim was to snuff out the "dying cin...

Xi wants 'new level' of China-Britain ties as May visits

Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)

Hounded by Brexit rows at home, May is seeking to deepen trade relations with the world's second largest economy as Britain prepares to leave the European Union...

May arrives in China eyeing post-Brexit trade links

Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)

May began her visit in the central industrial city of Wuhan and will be in China until Friday in what the Chinese foreign ministry has touted as a "historic vis...

Brexit dogs May as she eyes 'golden era' with China

Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)

As she embarked on a three-day visit to the Asian giant, May batted away critics of her leadership on Brexit and domestic issues, including within her Conservat...

Microsoft reports loss due to tax charge

Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)

The technology giant said its loss for the quarter to December 31 was $6.3 billion -- as it took a charge of $13.8 billion to pay its taxes. Revenue for Microso...

China factory expansion slows again in January

Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)

The manufacturing purchasing manager's index (PMI), a gauge of factory conditions, stood at 51.3 in January, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, compa...