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Oct182019 by adminNo Comments

‘Worrisome’: China’s economic growth slows to 27-year low

China's economic growth slowed to 6% year-on-year in the third quarter, amid a trade war with the US and fading demand at home and abroad.This means the world's second-largest economy grew at its weakest pace in at least 27 years and at a rate below the 6.2% growth seen in the second quarter. Mao Shengyong, spokesman for China's National Bureau of Statistics, said: "Generally speaking, the national economy maintained overall stability in the first three quarters."However, we must be aware that given the complicated and severe economic conditions both at home and abroad, the slowing global economic growth, and increasing external instabilities and uncertainties, the economy is under mounting downward pressure."China is expected to record 6.2% growth over the year, according to a Reuters pol...

Oct152019 by adminNo Comments

After ending protests, Ecuador faces dire economic outlook

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Jul112019 by adminNo Comments

Lead trapped in Arctic ice reveals economic impact of wars, plagues

Science

July 10 (UPI) -- Today, economists use a wide variety of sophisticated tools to measure economic output. But how does one measure economic activity that happened 1,000 years ago? One way is measure changes in lead pollution levels trapped in ancient ice. Using Arctic ice cores, an international team of researchers successfully retraced the economic ups and down of the last 1,500 years. The findings, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, revealed the the economic impacts of wars and plagues. "We all were surprised at how similarly lead pollution varied across this half of the Arctic and how closely those variations coincided with known historical events," Joe McConnell, director of DRI's Ultra-Trace Ice Core Chemistry Laboratory at the Desert ...

Jul42019 by adminNo Comments

Banking sector performance improved due to fall in bad loans in 2018-19: Economic Survey

Finance

NEW DELHI: The performance of banking sector has improved as bad loans declined in the last fiscal, but financial flows are constrained due to fall in money raised from capital markets and stress in the non-banking financial sector, the Economic Survey 2018-19 said Thursday. The monetary policy witnessed a U-turn over the last year. The benchmark policy rate was first hiked by 50 basis points (bps) and later reduced by 75 bps due to weaker than anticipated inflation, growth slowdown and softer international monetary conditions, the survey, tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament, said. "The performance of the banking system has improved as non-performing asset (NPA) ratios declined and credit growth accelerated. However, financial flows to the economy remained constrain...

May302019 by adminNo Comments

Jared Kushner pushes economic talks in meeting with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu

World

May 30 (UPI) -- White House senior adviser Jared Kushner met Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push for economic talk tied to a Middle East peace deal. The meeting was the final leg of a regional tour that took a U.S. delegation to Morocco and Jordan to rally for an economic workshop in Bahrain next month. At the Bahrain meeting, the U.S. administration plans to unveil economic aspects of its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. "It's always a great pleasure to welcome Jared Kushner to Israel, to Jerusalem, to discuss our common efforts for prosperity, security and peace," Netanyahu said. "I have to say I am tremendously encouraged by everything I hear, and about how President [Donald]Trump, the United States, is working to bring allies together in the region against ...