China has made a huge commitment of purchasing from the United States under the phase one of the trade agreement which has sent commodity traders and analysts wondering hot Beijing will be able to achieve the targets.   Over a period of two years, China will be purchasing more agricultural...

The US is demanding that China stop buying oil from Iran. It is China that imports the lion's share of the oil remaining on sale after the introduction of anti-Iranian sanctions by the Americans. According to US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, his subordinates are "in close contact" with...

An analysis of data released by the United States Commerce Department has revealed that since February 2018, American companies have been hit by about $46 billion because of US president Donald Trump’s tariffs for the purpose of restructuring of the United States's top trade relationships. The...

The global economy lost $ 8.05 billion in 2019 due to deliberate Internet outages, mainly caused by governments of different countries. This was calculated by Top10VPN specialists. Outages occurred in 21 countries, there were 122 of them, and their total duration was more than 18 thousand hours....

The Chinese commerce ministry has said that it would sing the so called “Phase 1” deal with the United States in Washington next week which would be signed by the Vice Premier of China Liu He, who is also the head of the negotiation team of China that is negotiating the trade agreement with the...

Partners in the Nigeria LNG (Nigerian National Petroleum Corp) project - Shell, Total and Eni - made the final investment decision (FID) to increase the plant’s capacity from 22 million to 30 million tons of LNG per year. The first batch of LNG from new capacities will be received in 2024. The...

The stock markets of developing countries in 2019 attracted $ 310 billion of portfolio investments of non-residents - against $ 194 billion a year earlier and $ 375 billion in 2017, experts at the Washington Institute of International Finance (IIF) calculated. Particularly, the inflow amounted to $...

Germany to use "green twin bonds" to "roll over maturing debt". In the second half of 2020, Germany promises to come out with its first "green bond" while in the following half, the country will introduce "a multi-billion euro" issue. The said step, informs the finance agency of Germany, is in line...

In order to boost its slowing economy, a cut on the amount of cash that all Chinese banks need to hold as reserves was announced by China's central bank which has released about 800 billion yuan or $114.91 billion in distributable funds.   Effective from January 6, the reserve requirement...