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...China’s economy grew an “estimated” 5.2 per cent last year, beating the official target, the country’s number two leader Premier Li Qiang said in Davos as he sought to allay concerns over its recovery from...
...While the energy-intensive chemicals, metals and paper industries have contracted, they only account for 4 per cent of the economy....
...On Sunday, outgoing premier Li Keqiang announced an economic growth target of “around 5 per cent”, compared with last year’s official goal of 5.5 per cent....
...Chinese premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday chaired a meeting with some provincial leaders, calling on them to shoulder responsibility for the country’s economic recovery at a “critical juncture for economic...
...If metal prices fall, as I expect them to, then dividends could be cut significantly....
...Below is a list of who owns each of this season’s 20 Premier League teams, as well as a gauge of how likely they are to meet with a similar fate....
...These were Samburu women, draped in cloth of cerulean and vermilion, metal anklets blinking under the African sun, forearms wrapped in thick, beaded bracelets like coiled snakes, necks and shoulders buried...
...“Sooner or later, coal and metal prices are likely to drop back as property construction slows,” she said....
...Rio has funded Oyu Tolgoi LLC, the joint venture company developing the project, through shareholder loans....
...The results of experiments conducted to simulate ocean mining more than 20 years ago are still visible with little to no recovery in the local ecosystems, he said....
...Whitbread, the Premier Inn owner, said that while market uncertainties remain its sales recovery since lockdown restrictions were lifted has been ahead of both analysts’ expectations and the market trend...
...A recovery in the world economy, the shift away from fossil fuels and interruptions to the production of natural gas and coal have combined to unleash a global scramble for energy supplies....
...A state council meeting chaired by Li Keqiang, China’s premier, last week said measures should be taken to avoid those costs feeding through into consumer prices....
...Gupta is the highly acquisitive industrialist who has been dubbed Britain’s “saviour of steel” for his acquisitions of unloved metals plants....
...Authorities in China have sought to cool hot commodity markets, with Premier Li Keqiang calling this week for stable prices....
...Last week, state broadcaster CCTV cited a state council meeting, chaired by Premier Li Keqiang, which said measures should be taken to prevent commodity price rises passing through into consumer prices....
...China’s strong industrial recovery, which drove record levels of steel production, has stoked a wider rise in commodity prices that is also supported by expectations of a global recovery and US stimulus....
...Greensill has about $5bn of exposure to GFG Alliance, the group of companies run by metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta which has defaulted on its obligations It has “no conceivable way” of repaying a $140m loan...
...Even with a helpful surge in iron ore prices this year, it would mark an impressive recovery from losses of A$183m in 2019 and A$378m in 2018....
...Netanyahu ousted Israel’s parliament has voted in a new government, ending the 12-year grip on power of rightwing stalwart and five-time premier Benjamin Netanyahu....
...Metals have been at the forefront of the market rally in global commodities prices, fuelled initially by a rapid pandemic recovery in China and now in the rest of the world Top commodity traders at firms...
...And we will explore the implications of Bulgaria’s failure to form a government for its economic recovery and ability to spend EU money....
...The dollar’s premier status owes as much to the fact there are few good alternatives to the currency as to the greenback’s own advantages....
...At this year’s meeting Premier Li Keqiang announced a Rmb6.1tn ($853bn) stimulus package to stabilise the economy following the coronavirus disruptions....
...Most are at least partially state-owned, but others, including the Hungarian subsidiary of Robert Bosch LLC, are not....
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