Tag: China

• Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 04:36 UTC

  China and Germany, world’s exporting giants meet in Beijing to discuss Euro-crisis

  

  German leader Angela Merkel is due to hold top-level talks Thursday on her second visit to China this year, with Europe's debt crisis taking centre stage as it begins to drag on the two global powers.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2012 - 05:59 UTC

  Brazil to deploy first floating oil terminal for refueling tankers in the high seas

  

  Brazil’s energy giant Petrobras said on Tuesday it will deploy the world’s first floating oil terminal capable of refueling tankers on the high seas.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2012 - 05:52 UTC

  Global confidence index for next twelve months at its gloomiest in five quarters

  

  Confidence in the state of the world economy over the next 12 months fell to the lowest level in five quarters, according to the Global Confidence Index prepared by the World Economic Forum.

• Saturday, August 18th 2012 - 06:18 UTC

  Argentina manages a 7.3bn dollars surplus in first half of the year

  

  Argentina trade surplus in the first half of the year reached 7.336 billion dollars, up 26.8% over the same period a year ago, with exports reaching 39.647bn dollars and imports 32.311bn, according to the official stats office Indec.

• Thursday, August 16th 2012 - 05:02 UTC

  China soon to become Venezuela’s main trade partner; oil sales soared 60% this year

  

  Venezuelan oil sales to China have jumped by 60% since the start of the year, the country's oil minister said in an interview published on Sunday in the state-run Correo del Orinoco.

• Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 11:03 UTC

  China only interested in commodities, not in products that reach supermarkets

  

  Trade with China for Argentina has great opportunities but also great threats because the Asian giant is only interested in produce with no added value, warned the head of Argentina’s Industrial Union, Ignacio De Mendiguren.

• Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 07:31 UTC

  YPF after Chinese cooperation for development of Vaca Muerta shale deposits

  

  Federal Planning Minister Julio de Vido announced that several members of the Argentine Government would be flying to China in September in order to close several cooperation agreements between Chinese oil companies and YPF, intended to deepen the bilateral relations.

• Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 20:35 UTC

  Mujica warns Uruguay is going through an exceptional period, but it is also finite

  

  President Jose Mujica said Uruguay was going through an ‘exceptional’ period vis-à-vis the world crisis but also warned that exceptionality has limits and is not forever.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 22:02 UTC

  China growth highly vulnerable to the Euro zone crisis warns the IMF

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the worsening debt crisis in the Euro zone poses a “key risk” to China's growth. IMF added that China also faces domestic risks, not least from a sharper-than-anticipated decline in the property market.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 07:59 UTC

  US solar companies can compete with China with a bit of innovation

  

  The US solar industry is undergoing some serious growing pains, with bankruptcies and mergers a necessary part of that process; meanwhile, competition from Chinese solar panels has many believing that American solar simply cannot compete. Not so.