Last week China posted weak manufacturing reports, and analysts aren't optimistic about upcoming data.
Last week China's commercial banks were banned from providing bank loans for stockmarket speculation.
Later this week China will issue a fresh batch of economic data, including inflation and trade balance reports.
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Also later this week China will issue a fresh batch of economic data, including inflation and trade balance reports.
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Last week China became the latest country to announce its own provisional safeguards.
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Dr Fukuda led a team from the WHO on a one-week China visit to study H7N9, along with Chinese officials from Beijing and Shanghai.
Next week China and Hong Kong will be closed on Monday for the Dragon Boat holiday, so activity out of that part of Asia will be quiet.
And again this week, China watchers saw home prices fall again, now down five consecutive months.
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Earlier this week, China reported that FDI fell 0.24% in October, from a year earlier.
Five years ago this week, China officially became a party to the World Health Organization's Framework Convention Tobacco Control.
This week, China has been rife with rumours that the government is considering changes to the yuan's exchange rate.
In December he and his direct reports spent a week in China.
Last week, China announced that its GDP growth slowed to 7.4 percent in the third quarter, down from 7.6 percent in the second.
Well we are making some size of investment there, we have a significant industry foot presence, we visit 12, 000 stores at least once a week throughout China.
According to a research note released by Deutsche Bank last week, China should provide more than half of the industry's total gains over the next 10 years.
Last week, China reported better than expected 7.9% growth for the fourth quarter, figures that helped ease fears the country might be headed for a severe slowdown.
Officials have been encouraging people to travel during the forthcoming May Day holiday week (China is eager to encourage holiday spending as a way of boosting the economy).
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris said in report published this week that China was on course to surpass the U.S. economy in just three short years.
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Earlier this week, China Daily quoted an anonymous government source -- allegedly straight from the Ministry of Culture -- saying China is considering lifting a 12-year-old "ban" on game consoles soon.
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The former handset king which has struggled to remain popular in the last few years, won an important victory in China this week, striking a subscription deal with China Mobile.
Gold prices are also feeling some selling pressure this week from the fact China is celebrating the lunar new year this week, which has curtailed physical demand for the precious yellow metal coming out of Asia.
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Just last week, NBA China and Ming announced a partnership creating a joint youth basketball and social responsibility program.
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Also for the week ahead, China's official purchasing managers' index for April and U.S. nonfarm payrolls data will be closely watched.
In the past week, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the country's top securities watchdog, has instructed brokerage and fund-management firms across the country to examine their bond-trading books for irregularities.
The Scot, who seemed to have recovered from the illness which hampered him at last week's China Open , was never really threatened by a player he had beaten in their previous two meetings.
To shore up some support, Apple's CEO Tim Cook last week traveled to China for the second time in ten months -- a visit interpreted by some as an effort to fight Apple's falling market share in the country.
The HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI is published a week ahead of the final HSBC China PMI every month.
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We have certainly seen some good news coming out of China here this week in terms of economic growth, and it seems as China goes, the copper market goes.
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