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China’s Car Market Loses Promise

Posted: April 11, 2012 at 6:29 am

China is supposed to be the market which gets the global car industry back on its feet after the losses caused by three years of recession. The China market, which ...
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China Trade Forecast Could Be Lowered

Posted: April 10, 2012 at 10:33 am

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is considering lowering its estimate of future Chinese trade surpluses in the next World Economic Outlook due later this month. The IMF’s current forecast could ...
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Android Dominates Chinese Mobile Platform Market (GOOG, AAPL, NOK, MSFT, RIMM)

Posted: April 10, 2012 at 9:06 am

The Android smartphone operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) grabbed nearly 70% of sales in China during the fourth quarter of 2011 according to a new report from Chinese ...
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Honda Goes Into Crowded China Market

Posted: April 10, 2012 at 6:18 am

Honda (NYSE: HMC) is the latest multinational car company to attack China's vehicle market.  People's Republic drivers bought 18 million cars and light trucks last year, well ahead of the ...
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China Inflation Up 3.6%

Posted: April 9, 2012 at 6:38 am

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Big Manufacturers Fall into China Car Trap

Posted: April 6, 2012 at 6:14 am

China recently was the most attractive car and light truck market in the world. The Asian nation’s vehicle sales are nearly 18 million a year now, ahead of the second-largest ...
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China Becomes World’s Largest Food Market

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 6:48 am

China has become the world’s largest food market, passing the U.S. in yet another measure, according to UK research firm IGD. The group offered three reasons for this: rapid economic ...
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Cotton Prices Stay Low on Chinese Stockpiles, Big Crops

Posted: April 3, 2012 at 2:50 pm

Last year at this time, cotton prices were hovering around $2.10/pound. They’re less than half that today, and growers are wondering if $0.95/pound will return. Cotton prices dropped below $1/pound ...
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A Second Look at Trusting the SmartHeat Move (HEAT)

Posted: April 3, 2012 at 1:39 pm

SmartHeat Inc. (NASDAQ: HEAT) is such a small company that you might wonder what to think of a 100% rally in the stock after reporting a loss.  The company sells plate heat ...
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No Hope for China Relations with the U.S.

Posted: April 3, 2012 at 6:54 am

The Brookings Institute’s sponsored “Addressing U.S.-China Strategic Distrust” report received a great deal of media coverage recently. At the heart of the analysis are the differences between the drive of each ...
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ChinaCast, From Troubled To Dysfunctional (CAST)

Posted: April 2, 2012 at 12:43 pm

ChinaCast Education Corporation (NASDAQ: CAST) is one of the Chinese companies where investors might not be best served by management.  Infighting at the board of director level appears to be ...
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China Q1 Growth Slows

Posted: April 1, 2012 at 2:24 pm

The notices from the Chinese government that GDP improvement in Q1 will disappoint grew as the Bank of China said the figure would be a disappointing 8.2%. That is against 8.9% ...
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Boeing Loses 787 Orders, Gains More 737 Orders (BA, CEA)

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 3:05 pm

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) has confirmed that China Eastern Airlines Ltd. (NYSE: CEA) has cancelled its previous order for 24 of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner aircraft, replacing the order with another ...
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Baidu’s Cloud Effort Likely a 2013 (or Beyond) Story (BIDU, MSFT, GOOG, YHOO)

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 6:57 am

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is among the latest of companies joining in on the cloud storage initiative.  The company's recent initiative at pan.baidu.com is set to ultimately compete against Microsoft Corporation ...
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When Closed-End Funds Buy Back Shares (CHN, FXI)

Posted: March 28, 2012 at 12:15 pm

The China Fund, Inc. (NYSE: CHN) is a closed-end mutual fund rather than an exchange-traded fund.  It also has traded in a sloppy manner where the fund often tracks its ...
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