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.
China’s economy is facing multiple domestic and international challenges despite its steady performance in the past seven months, said a senior economic official in Beijing on Wednesday.
Crude prices steadied Wednesday as a government report showed U.S. crude inventories at Cushing, the contract’s delivery point, increased last week, meeting expectation.
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange dropped slightly Wednesday as U.S. stocks continued advancing with the Dow Jones Industrial Average challenging uncharted territory.
The booth of Nissan is seen during the Moscow International Automobile Salon in Moscow, Russia, on August 27, 2014. The Automobile Salon will last till September 7.
Britain leads the European hubs on fueling Renminbi (RMB), or Chinese yuan, internationalization, with a 123.6 percent growth of RMB payments value between July 2013 and July 2014, said SWIFT in its latest RMB Tracker report this week.
Australia’s national flag carrier, Qantas, has shocked the local market by recording a loss of 2.8 billion Australian dollars (2.6 billion U.S. dollars), around three times worse than expected.
The interconnector”Iasi-Ungheni”gas pipeline is 43.2 km long and has an annual transportation capacity of 1.5 billion cubic meters,covering about one third of Moldova’s needs s. The first transit of natural gas from Romania will be undertaken on Sept.
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange bounced Tuesday as the central banks of Russia and Kazakhstan continued to raise their official gold reserve in July.
U.S. crude price advanced Tuesday as U.S. economic data came out better than expected.