The “Xinhua Silk Road” information platform, an international economic information hub, will boost the synergy between China’s “Belt and Road” initiative and the investment plan in the European Union (EU) — the Juncker Plan in Europe, a European Parliament official said Thursday.
The Australian dollar is slightly lower though trading within a tight range in a relatively quiet night for all forex traders, despite ongoing weakness in commodities.
Industrial output in France inched up by 0.1 percent in September after gaining ground a month earlier, the national statistics bureau Insee revealed on Tuesday.
Bulgaria has significantly reduced its foreign trade deficit in the January to September period year-on-year, the country’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) said Monday.
Australia’s Trade Minister has said the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), alongside free trade agreements such as the one signed with China, will form the cornerstone of Australia’s post-mining boom economy, after details of the TPP were released overnight.
The Food and Agriculture Organization issued the latest Food Price Index, saying rising food prices last month were spurred by weather-driven concerns about sugar and palm oil supplies.
Cuba has allowed U.S. tractor company Cleber to set up a manufacturing center in its Special Economic Development Zone of Mariel (ZEDM), making it the first U.S. business to enter the country in over half a century.
The Philippines has registered 0.4 percent inflation rate in October, the same rate as seen in previous month, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said Thursday.
Economic growth is not an end in and of itself, but is crucial if Europe is to retain its unique and inclusive socio-economic model, said Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Wednesday at the Tatra Summit here to discuss the future of Europe’s economic and monetary union.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday that its executive board is expected to discuss and decide in November whether to include the Chinese currency, the RMB, into its special drawing right (SDR) currency basket, but no exact date has been set for the board meeting as of now.