NEW YORK, May 15 (Xinhua) — U.S. stocks continued to close higher in choppy trading on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 setting new all-time highs again, boosted by improved home builder confidence.
The blue-chip Dow gained 60.44 points, or 0.40 percent, to 15, 275.69 points. The S&P 500 was up [...]
MADRID, May 3 (Xinhua) — The debt of Spanish families decreased by 4.48 percent from March 2012 to March 2013 to 820.183 billion euros (1,075.781 billion U.S. dollars), the Bank of Spain reported on Friday.
The amount of debt accumulated by Spanish families fell from 858.727 billion euros (1,126.390 billion U.S. dollars) of March 2012 to [...]
WASHINGTON, April 5 (Xinhua) — U.S. consumer credit grew at an annual rate of 7.8 percent in February, indicating expanding consumer spending and ongoing economic recovery, the U.S. Federal Reserve reported on Friday.
Total consumer borrowing rose from a revised 2.7809 trillion U. S. dollars in January to a record 2.7991 trillion dollars in February, the [...]
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) — Liam Neeson has flexed his muscle again as his “Taken” sequel successfully held off Ben Affleck’s “Argo” and was well on the way to win the box office derby for second consecutive weekend.
“Taken 2″ is projected to take in 22.5 million U.S. dollars this weekend, and is on track [...]
BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — China’s exports rose 9.9 percent year on year to 186.35 billion U.S. dollars in September, official data showed Saturday.
The export volume hit a record monthly high and the growth was higher than the 2.7 percent year on year increase posted in August, according to figures from the [...]
NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) — The U.S. dollar continued to fall against most of its major counterparts on Thursday as the latest data showed that the U.S. jobs market was picking up.
The U.S. dollar traded higher in earlier session as the euro was weighed after Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services cut late Wednesday [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — The nine largest U.S. passenger airlines reaped 670 million U.S. dollars in net income in the second quarter of this year, said the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in a report on Tuesday.
This indicated a strong recovery because it was a 12.8 percent increase over the same period of last [...]
HANGZHOU, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) — China’s Alibaba group has officially concluded a 7.6-billion-U.S. dollar buyback deal to repurchase a 20-percent stake in itself from Yahoo, according to an Alibaba statement.
Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company, financed the transaction with a mixture of cash on hand, senior debt and the issuance of convertible preference and ordinary shares.
It [...]
HONG KONG, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) — The gold price in Hong Kong moved up 80 HK dollars to open at 16,100 HK dollars per tael on Wednesday, according to the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society.
The price is equivalent to 1,743.83 U.S. dollars a troy ounce, up 8.67 U.S. dollars at the latest exchange rate [...]
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — “The Possession” sat atop the North America box office chart for the second straight weekend, as Hollywood suffered one of the worst post-Labor Day weekends in the last decade.
The Lionsgate exorcism thriller is estimated to garner 9.5 million U.S. dollars this weekend which will put it on track for [...]
