The Spanish Ibex-35 stock market enjoyed a positive day’s trading on Wednesday ending the day on 10,856.90 points, 0.51 percent up from the close on Tuesday.
Sep 252014
Sep 252014
The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region’s information office released details on a terrorist attack on Sept 21 that killed 10 people, including two police officers and two assistant police, and injured 54.
Forty attackers were shot dead by police or killed in suicide explosions, and two attackers were arrested in Luntai county, the Bayinguoleng Mongolia autonomous prefecture, the regional information office said on the night of Sept 25.
The multiple explosions were detonated simultaneously at about 5 pm at a bazaar patronized by local residents from ethnic groups; two police stations; and the front of a shop. Thirty-two of the injured victims were Uygurs, according to a statement from the Xinjiang information office.
A police investigation showed that the attackers were led by Memet Turson, who was shot dead by police. Memet Turson was under the influence of religious extremism since 2003 after he graduated from a vocational school, police said.
He has become more devoted since 2008. He believed the meals that his parents cooked were not halal because his parents were government workers. He even refused to attend his father’s funeral, police said.
Memet also refused to attend his brother’s wedding because the couple’s marriage certificate was issued by the government. He recruited people to join a terrorist group lead by him when he worked as a construction contractor. Memet then plotted and carried out the attack.
The investigation is continuing, local police said.
Sep 242014
World trade growth in 2014 is now predicted at 3.1 percent, down from the 4.7 percent forecast made in April, according to latest statistics released by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday.
Sep 242014
Taiwan’s economic authority said on Tuesday that the island’s business volume and industrial production index have both witnessed growth on a year-on-year basis.
Sep 242014
The Commerce Department on Tuesday announced final dumping margins on imports of monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer, from China and Indonesia, paving the way for the U.S. government to impose punitive duties on the products in the months ahead.
Sep 242014
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday set preliminary subsidy rates on imports of 53-foot domestic dry containers from China, signaling that it may impose punitive duties on the products.
Sep 242014
China’s manufacturing activities improved slightly in September, underscoring sustained output growth in the month, according to a flash reading of the HSBC survey released on Tuesday.
Sep 232014
China’s new accounting regime, shifting focus from GDP to a more balanced development outlook, signals the end of the era of “GDP supremacy”.
Sep 222014
The Bangladeshi government Sunday ordered the country’s garment factory owners to pay salaries and bonuses to all workers ahead of upcoming religious festivals of Hindus and Muslims.
Sep 202014
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange dropped to an eight- month low Friday as the U.S. dollar was buoyed by an improving economy that reinforced the outlook of an earlier-than-expected interest rate increase.