Posts Tagged ‘dollars’

China signed a 350 million euros with Alstom

March 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Minister of Railways on Monday signed two contracts worth over 350 million euros (455 million U.S. dollars) with French company Alstom, a global leader in power generation and rail infrastructure.
The first contract, culmination of a letter of i...

United States: decrease of 25.5% of the federal deficit

March 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The federal deficit of the United States for the first 5 months of the current fiscal year totaled 162.2 billion dollars (billion dollars), a decrease of 25.5% over the same period last year earlier, said Monday the U.S. Treasury Department.
Thi...

Rapid growth of trade between China and its major partners in the first two months

March 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
According to the latest figures from the General Administration of Customs, bilateral trade between China and its major partners, particularly the European Union (EU), the United States, Japan and ASEAN has grown considerably on the first two months o...

World Bank grant of 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in development projects in Nigeria

March 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The World Bank will provide about 2.5 billion dollars in development projects in Nigeria for the current year, it was learned at a seminar held in Abuja over the weekend.
Bayo Owosumeni Specialist World Bank, said that his organization intended ...

China has become the largest market for integrated circuits in the world

January 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
China became in 2006 the largest market for integrated circuits in the world, surpassing Japan and the United States, announced in Shanghai Yu Zhongyu, head of the Board of Directors of the sector of semi-conductors China.
Last year, the Chinese...

Olympics 2008: start of ticket sales in April

January 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The sale of tickets for the 2008 Olympic Games begin in Beijing next month, said the organizer.
The Chinese and foreigners residing in China can order tickets on the Internet site launched Thursday by the Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympi...

The service sector is growing rapidly in the Yangtze Estuary

January 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
With the restructuring of industry, value-added services sector last year accounted for 41.3% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 16 cities in the Yangtze estuary.
According to recent statistics provided by the provincial statistics bureau of Jia...

Oil prices rise sharply

December 4th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Oil prices are mounted quickly Thursday because of températudes cold crossing the northeastern United States.
The main contract for New York’s benchmark contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, took $ 2 to close at 59.71 dollars...

Bush proposes an increase of 11.3% in its budget proposal defense

November 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
U.S. President George W. Bush submitted Monday to Congress a budget plan totaling 481.4 billion dollars (billion dollars) for the regular Pentagon spending in fiscal 2008, an increase of 11.3% compared to fiscal year current.
Strategic Moderniza...

The volume of China-Africa trade reached 55.5 billion dollars in 2006

November 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Trade between China and Africa reached 55.5 billion dollars in 2006, representing a growth rate of over 30% for the 5th consecutive year, announced Monday the Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Wei Jianguo.
Of this total, China’s exports to...