POLITICAL ECONOMY - SINO DAILY

Mexico giving Brazil, China a run for their money

Sep 30, 2012 (AFP)

Here's a bold prediction for 2022, the year of another World Cup: Mexico will beat Brazil. While soccer-mad Mexicans dream of defeating their regional rivals fo...

China manufacturing contracts for 11th straight month

Sep 29, 2012 (AFP)

China's manufacturing activity shrank for an 11th straight month in September, HSBC said Saturday, adding to pressure on Beijing to provide fresh stimulus to bo...

Eurozone's core beset by new uncertainties

Sep 28, 2012 (UPI)

As Spain's debt crisis rattles markets, Europe's core political structures in Germany and France are coming under increased pressures from internal challenges t...

Japan economy stuttering ahead of China crisis

Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)

Japan released yet more worrying figures Friday showing the world's third largest economy was already stuttering before a damaging territorial dispute erupted w...

Global warming freezes world economy: report

Sep 25, 2012 (AFP)

Climate change caused by global warming is freezing the world economy and already leading to the deaths of millions every year, a report commissioned by 20 of t...

Walker's World: Super-Mario's new dawn

Sep 24, 2012 (UPI)

It may be the darkest hour before the dawn but the economic news from Europe could hardly be more depressing for Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank...

China's stance could weaken its economy: Japan PM

Sep 23, 2012 (AFP)

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda warned China, in an interview published late Sunday, that its tough and uncompromising stance taken in a territorial disp...

High-frequency stock trade risky, unfair: experts

Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)

The increasing power of computerized high-frequency trades on US markets has been assailed in Congress as dangerous and unfair, as pressure builds to reel in th...

Spain bailout fears rattle eurozone again

Sep 21, 2012 (UPI)

Investor fears that Spain is poised to ask for a multibillion-euro bailout very soon rattled investors amid uncertainty about its impact on the markets. Spain's...

China pledges continued support to resolve euro crisis

Sep 20, 2012 (AFP)

China pledged continued assistance Thursday to help tackle the eurozone debt crisis, saying Europe was "on the right track" but needed to implement the measures...

China vows ongoing support to resolve euro crisis

Sep 20, 2012 (AFP)

China pledged continued assistance Thursday to help tackle the eurozone debt crisis, saying Europe was "on the right track" but needed to implement the measures...

Bank of Japan easing total hits $1 trillion

Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)

The Bank of Japan followed its US and European counterparts Wednesday, announcing extra bond buying to take its total monetary easing effort past $1 trillion as...

US finance sector warned of cyber attacks

Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)

A US financial industry group warned banks and other institutions to beware cyber attacks Wednesday, after some firms reported sporadic problems with their webs...

Digital initiative aimed at helping world's poor

Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)

A shift to digital payments can improve the global effort to fight poverty and improve conditions for those trapped in a cycle dependent on cash, say backers of...

Dutch minister introduces austerity budget

Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)

Outgoing Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager introduced an austerity budget Tuesday aimed at steering Europe's fifth-largest economy back below a Brussels-...

Property price rises ease in Chinese cities

Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)

Rises in new home prices moderated broadly in Chinese cities last month, official data showed Tuesday, after authorities vowed to keep a tight grip over the onc...

Walker's World: Central Banks Rule

Sep 17, 2012 (UPI)

We are living in a new era, the age of central banks. The latest actions of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve in the United States exemplify thi...

China pledges more financial reform by 2015

Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)

China said Monday it would move to allow its currency to float more freely and further liberalise state-set interest rates in a broad financial plan through 201...

Risks ahead if Asia to drive world growth: experts

Sep 16, 2012 (AFP)

Asia must fight complacency and transform its economic and social models if it is to keep driving global growth in years to come as Europe and the United States...

Hong Kong warns of property bubble from Fed plan

Sep 14, 2012 (AFP)

Hong Kong's Monetary Authority warned Friday that the loosening of monetary policy in the United States could lead to overheating in the territory's already hot...