Negotiators from China, Japan and South Korea called for the conclusion of a comprehensive trilateral free trade agreement by the end of 2015, officials said on Monday.
The first vehicles to be imported to China by rail arrived in the southwest city of Chongqing on Monday as the country’s only international rail vehicle port begins operation.
28(Xinhua)–The World Economic Forum on Thursday launched a new initiative on Internet governance cooperation,which will provide a venue for leaders from many regions and sectors of society to discuss and address a range of emerging policy challenges related to Internet t.
29(Xinhua)–Japan’s July industrial output was up a seasonally adjusted 0.2 percent from the previous month,said the Japanese Industry Ministry Friday y.
U.S. fixed mortgage rates kept largely unchanged amid mixed news on the housing market, said the Primary Mortgage Market Survey released by Freddie Mac Thursday.
U.S. stocks traded in negative territory midday Thursday but off session lows, with the S&P 500 slipping below its record high, as renewed worries over Ukraine overshadowed better-than-expected U.S. growth data.
U.S. banks’ net income rose 5.3 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period of last year as banks spent less money in loan-loss provisions and noninterest expenses, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) said Thursday.
Chalco attributed the loss to”a significant number of gains from capital operation”in the first half of 2013,and”a decrease of selling price by about 6 percent to 11 percent”in the first half of this year r. Half-year output of alumina chemicals jumped nearly 20 percent to 910000 tonnes,while output of primary aluminum products plunged nearly 20 percent to 1.63 million tonnes s.
Bank of Cyprus (BOC) shareholders who became the bank’s owners against their will in 2013, endorsed plans on Thursday to increase its capital by 1 billion euros (1.32 billion U.S. dollars).
Deutsche Bank AG London Branch has been fined 4.7 million pounds (7.8 million U.S. dollars) by a British financial watchdog for incorrectly reporting transactions between November 2007 and April 2013.