Growth in Russian industrial output revived in February
Russia Growth in Russian industrial output revived in February Industrial output growth rose to 2.6 % y-o-y in January-February. The figure moved up towards the growth figure for all of 2018. E...
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Russian foreign trade continues to recover; capital outflows up slightly
Russia Russian foreign trade continues to recover; capital outflows up slightly Russian revenues from goods and services exports, as well as spending on goods and services imports were each up rough...
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Russian foreign trade contracts slightly
Russia Russian foreign trade contracts slightly Preliminary balance-of-payments figures released by the Central Bank of Russia show that Russian earnings from exports of goods and services fell in t...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019
Chinese tourists help reduce trade imbalance
Chinese tourists help reduce trade imbalance China’s current account surplus in the first half of this year amounted to $99 billion (2 % of GDP). The massive $229 billion surplus in goods trade was ...
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Russian exports and imports sink below 2010 levels
Russian exports and imports sink below 2010 levels Preliminary 2015 balance-of-payments figures released by the Central Bank of Russia show that the 2010 level was hit in the third quarter in both r...
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Boom in Chinese tourism balances goods trade surplus
Boom in Chinese tourism balances goods trade surplus The goods trade surplus hit record highs again in January and February, with exports rising 15 % y-o-y and imports dropping by 20 % y-o-y. The gro...
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More Chinese construction companies miss scheduled offshore debt payments
China More Chinese construction companies miss scheduled offshore debt payments The problems of developer Evergrande have affected the access to financing of smaller construction companies. In Octob...
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China’s recovery policy includes investment in “new infrastructure”
China China’s recovery policy includes investment in “new infrastructure” Nominal on-year growth in Chinese fixed investment slowed over the past decade from over 30 % to just 5.4 % last y...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020
Chinese economy yet to show clear signs of improvement
Chinese economy yet to show clear signs of improvement China’s real industrial production growth in July was 5.1 % y-o-y, a marked slowing from the beginning of the year when output gains reache...
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United States imposes new tariffs on Chinese products
United States imposes new tariffs on Chinese products On Tuesday (May 14), US president Joe Biden ordered the Office of the US Trade Representative to impose or increase tariffs on a range of Chinese...
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China slightly tightens monetary stance to cool lending growth
China China slightly tightens monetary stance to cool lending growth Although policy rates are still unchanged, the People’s Bank of China has begun to use other instruments in its monetary toolkit ...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2021
United States wants to resume trade talks with China
China United States wants to resume trade talks with China On Monday (Oct. 4), US trade representative Katherine Tai outlined preliminary targets for the Biden administration’s China trade policy. T...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2021
Venezuela causes headaches for China and Russia
China,Russia Venezuela causes headaches for China and Russia Amidst Venezuela’s catastrophic economic crisis and political impasse, opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim presid...
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Given the overall outlook for China, provincial GDP growth targets look rather modest
China Given the overall outlook for China, provincial GDP growth targets look rather modest GDP growth slowed last year significantly from 2019, but stayed positive in all but one province. Hubei pr...
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Increasing number of bond defaults by Chinese state-owned enterprises
China Increasing number of bond defaults by Chinese state-owned enterprises The recent increase in bond defaults has been seen as a sign that economic conditions are normalising. In other words, sti...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020
BOFIT Forecast for China 2024-2026 / 1
china,forecast BOFIT Forecast for China 2024–2026 is published: Productivity gains key to China maintaining growth The latest forecast from BOFIT, the Bank of Finland’s Institute for Emerging Econom...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / BOFIT / News / 2024
Russia continued on a more moderate growth path in July; fixed investment supported first-half growth
Russia Russia continued on a more moderate growth path in July; fixed investment supported first-half growth Russian economic growth slowed significantly in June, but sustained its lower pace in Jul...
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BOFIT expects Chinese economic growth to slow in coming years
BOFIT expects Chinese economic growth to slow in coming years On Monday (Oct. 30), BOFIT released its latest Forecast for China 2023–2025 and held a briefing in Finnish on the Chinese economy (here)....
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2023
China's current account surplus fell to 1.4 % of GDP last year
China China's current account surplus fell to 1.4 % of GDP last year China's current account surplus fell to 1.4 % of GDP last year Preliminary balance-of-payments figures from the People&#...
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Finnish trade with Russia collapsed last year
Russia Finnish trade with Russia collapsed last year Preliminary figures from Statistics Finland suggest that the value of Finnish exports of goods and services to Russia contracted by about 20 ...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2021