Tag Archives: World economy

In November 2020, China officially released its manufacturing PMI

Lingling workers at a factory in Lianyang, Jiangsu Province, China. Stringer | AFP | Getty Images China said Monday that manufacturing activity rose for the ninth straight month in November as the world’s second-largest economy emerged from a recession caused by the coronavirus epidemic. The Manufacturing Facial Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ …

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Top Glove became the center of Kovid revival in Malaysia

SINGAPORE – Top manufacturing, the world’s largest medical glove manufacturer, has shut down 20 manufacturing sites in Malaysia after thousands of workers tested positive for Covid-19. As of Wednesday, a total of 2,684 top glove employees – most of them foreign workers – had tested positive, local media quoted senior …

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European stock futures US political certainty, rising on vaccines

LONDON – European stocks traded higher on Wednesday as rising political certainty in the US and news of a sensible coronavirus vaccine boosted global sentiment. The Pan-European Stocks 600 Index traded up 1% higher with most of the positive sectors except insurance, auto, basic resources and chemicals. News of a …

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Singapore publishes third quarter 2020 GDP, economic data

A man in a mask walks in the background on April 1, 2020, walking on Marina Bay Sands in Singapore’s Central Business District. Suhaimi Abdullah | Getty Images SINGAPORE – Singapore’s economy contracted 8.8 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier – better than initial estimates, the country’s …

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