Phillip Inman Economics correspondent Friday 20 January 2017 11.21 EST GDP growth improved to 6.8% but only after a 19% increase in public investment and a lighter touch on real estate borrowing The silver lining in China’s disappointing 2016 growth figures was the pickup in performance at the end of the year. Or so it seems.
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By: Mike King Lloyd’s Weakening of euro against the US dollar-pegged Yuan has tipped already weak European demand into negative territory, observes Bimco analyst The downturn in export markets from China into Europe will plague the container shipping industry for the rest of 2015 and into 2016, according to one leading analyst. The latest import and
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By: ERICA E. PHILLIPS Updated Aug. 11, 2015 6:47 a.m. ET The National Retail Federation expects imports to grow at a slower rate after a torrid first half as retailers work through inventories built up earlier in the year. U.S. imports should grow at a slower rate in the second half of 2015 as retailers work
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BY NATHAN LAYNE Business News | Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:19pm EDT Wal-Mart Stores will begin charging fees to almost all vendors for stocking their items in new stores and for warehousing inventory, raising pressure on suppliers as the world’s largest retailer battles higher costs from wage hikes. The company said it started informing suppliers about
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By Emma DumainPosted at 12:32 p.m. on June 18 Updated 3:22 p.m. | The House narrowly passed Trade Promotion Authority Thursday — the first step of many to resurrect President Barack Obama’s trade agenda after his own party torpedoed a combined bill last week. The chamber voted 218-208 on TPA, which will give him the latitude to
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Peter T. Leach, Editor-at-Large | Jun 12, 2015 11:57AM EDT After the eight months of West Coast port congestion that crimped U.S. shippers’ supply chains, 43 percent of surveyed shippers who have negotiated annual trans-Pacific contracts said they will shift shipments to East Coast ports. But of those shippers who told JOC.com they would reroute
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