By Siyi Liu and Dominique Patton BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s copper imports fell 12.7% in December from a year earlier, weighed down by weak demand as factory activity shrank at a sharper pace amid surging COVID-19 infections. Imports of unwrought copper and copper products totalled 514,049 tonnes in December, data from the General Administration of Customs …
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Washington (Reuters) – Der Internationale Währungsfonds (IWF) korrigiert seine Wachstumsprognose von 2,7 Prozent für das Jahr 2023 voraussichtlich nicht nach unten. “Das Wachstum wird sich 2023 weiter verlangsamen”, sagte die Direktorin des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF), Kristalina Georgieva, vor Reportern am Hauptsitz des IWF in Washington am Donnerstag (Ortszeit). 2023 werde ein weiteres schwieriges Jahr für …
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By Scott Murdoch and Clare Jim SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Dalian Wanda Commercial Management raised $400 million in a U.S. dollar bond, a term sheet seen by Reuters showed, in the first publicly sold dollar bond by a Chinese property-related firm since late 2021 when the sector’s debt crisis came to a head. The company, the …
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By Ellen Zhang and Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s exports shrank sharply in December as global demand cooled, highlighting risks to the country’s economic recovery this year, but a more modest decline in imports reinforced views that domestic demand will slowly recover in coming months. While imports are expected to ride a wave of …
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Washington (Reuters) – Die Vereinigten Staaten können laut der geschäftsführenden Direktorin des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF) in diesem Jahr eine Rezession vermeiden und eine “weiche Landung” für ihre Wirtschaft erreichen. “Es gibt einige Argumente für die Hoffnung, dass die USA nicht in eine Rezession fallen werden”, sagte Kristalina Georgieva bei ihrer ersten Pressekonferenz im Jahr 2023 …
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(Reuters) -Crypto.com said on Friday it would be reducing about 20% of its workforce, as cryptocurrency exchanges face industry-wide challenges brought on by the collapse of FTX last year. The Singapore-based company’s announcement comes amid concerns about reserves and solvency across the sector, and only a few days after rival exchanges Coinbase Global Inc and …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors should enforce laws against money-laundering more effectively as the country remains a soft touch for corporate financial corruption, an ethics group said on Friday. The Swiss branch of Transparency International said there had been just 10 documented convictions for money laundering and related corruption, carried out in the context of …
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(Reuters) -German automotive lighting group Hella reported a 25.7% rise in half-year sales on Friday, citing continued high demand for its lighting and electronic products. Sales for the first six months of its shortened fiscal 2022, came in at 3.8 billion euros ($4.12 billion), compared with 3.0 billion euros a year earlier. Hella, which operates …
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– von Sarah N. Lynch und Jarrett Renshaw Washington (Reuters) – Nach dem Fund weiterer vertraulicher Dokumente im Haus von US-Präsident Joe Biden hat Justizminister Merrick Garland einen Sonderermittler eingesetzt. Die Aufgabe werde der ehemalige Bundesstaatsanwalt Robert Hur übernehmen, gab Garland am Donnerstag bekannt. Kurz zuvor hatten Anwälte von Biden wie auch das Staatsoberhaupt selbst …
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By Josh Ye HONG KONG (Reuters) – On a hot summer’s day last year, the 90’s boy band Backstreet Boys clambered on to a stage in Pennsylvania and belted out hits as 44 million viewers tuned in from thousands of miles away for the online concert hosted by China’s WeChat Channels. The show is just …
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