• Core inflation to rise to roughly 2% in 2016

      23/08/2016
    Core inflation this year could increase slightly to roughly 2 per cent from 1.7 per cent last year, the National Financial Supervisory Commission (NFSC) forecast.  
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  • Dollar edges up, but on track for weekly loss

      19/08/2016
    The dollar wallowed close to eight-week lows against the euro on Friday, and was poised for weekly losses against its major counterparts, after minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve's July meeting revealed central bank policymakers were in no hurry to hike rates.  
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  • What is Graphene?

      19/08/2016
    Widely regarded as the “wonder material” of the 21st century, graphene’s beginnings are modest. The 2D material was first produced in 2004, when two professors at the University of Manchester used Scotch tape to peel flakes of graphene off a chunk of graphite.  
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  • Who Would Win a Currency War? No One

      17/08/2016
    It's been a year since a sudden, 1.9 percent decline in the Chinese yuan rattled global markets and prompted fears of a global currency war. China has mostly soothed nerves by moderating the renminbi's swoon since then. But what should really put minds to rest is the knowledge that no one -- not even China, which arguably did power its rise, at least in part, on the back of an artificially depressed yuan -- could win a true currency war today.  
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  • Dollar turns defense into attack ahead of Fed minutes

      17/08/2016
    Revived bets on U.S. interest rate rises this year saw the dollar turn defense into attack on Wednesday and halted a red-hot run for oil prices and emerging markets.  
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