Chinese firms’ profits hit record lows, face harmful deflation – survey
China’s economy was plagued by pervasive weakness in the fourth quarter, results from a private survey of Chinese firms showed,…
As China’s demand wanes, the golden age of coal comes to an end – IEA
A worker speaks as he loads coal on a truck at a depot near a coal mine from the state-owned…
World Bank lends Iraq $1.2 billion to face oil, security shocks
Flames emerge from a pipeline at Basra refinery in Basra province, March 1, 2014. The World Bank said on Thursday…
Yellen’s “tightening” promises a slow crawl higher
The policy tightening kicked off by the Fed this week promises to be among the longest and slowest of modern…
BOJ keeps base money target, fine-tunes stimulus scheme to promote capex
The Bank of Japan maintained its money printing drive at the current rate on Friday, but reorganized its massive stimulus…