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Cina USA
Mixed messages
LI KEQIANG, China’s prime minister, made a big promise to the world’s leading businessmen at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos in January 2015. It was that China would introduce a new legal regime for foreign investment that would “treat Chinese and foreign companies as equals”. Its government ...
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USA
The good, the bad and the ugly
SHANNON AIRPORT ON Ireland’s west coast has been a gateway from Europe to America since the 1940s. It was built across the estuary of the river Shannon from Foynes, a small town that had served in the interwar years as a refuelling stop for seaplanes and passengers on their way ...
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USA
The reset button
THERE MAY be few better advocates of the benefits to America of an open economy than Pin Ni, boss of Wanxiang America Corporation, part of a private firm based in Hangzhou that his father-in-law started as a bicycle-repair shop. Mr Ni launched the American subsidiary in 1994, suspending his studies ...
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USA
A lapse in concentration
IN “THE FUGITIVE”, a 1960s television drama, David Janssen plays Richard Kimble, a doctor wrongly convicted of murdering his wife who escapes on the way to his execution. He claims, but cannot prove, that he encountered a one-armed man minutes before he discovered his wife’s dead body. After his escape ...
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Cina USA
Coming and going
IN MARCH 2000, two months before a crucial vote in America’s Congress on whether to make normal trading relations with China permanent, Bill Clinton gave a press conference. In the first year of his presidency, 1993, he had made a bold case for the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ...
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USA
Law on Disparaging Trademarks Gets Supreme Court Review
The case involves an Asian-American dance-rock band called the Slants, but it also has implications for the Washington Redskins.
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USA
US Economy Grew at 1.4 Percent Rate in Spring
The U.S. economy expanded at a slightly faster pace in the spring than previously reported, aided by new-found strength in business construction.
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USA
Stati Uniti, il PIL del 2° trimestre viene rivisto al rialzo più delle attese
(Teleborsa) - L'economia americana si conferma in accelerazione nel 2° trimestre del 2016, più di quanto previsto inizialmente. Il PIL statunitense è stato rivisto al rialzo a +1,4%...
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Germania
Germania, analisti alzano stime PIL 2016
(Teleborsa) - I principali centri studi economici tedeschi hanno rivisto al rialzo le previsioni economiche del PIL della Germania per l'anno in corso, mostrandosi invece più pessimisti per il...
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USA
US sharply upgrades Q2 growth to 1.4%
WASHINGTON - The US economy grew faster than originally thought in the second quarter of this year, with Commerce Department figures released Thursday showing a 1.4% annual rate.