August 9, 2012 These are goldilocks jobs numbers - not too hot, not too cold. 5.03pm: Our live coverage of the markets is now ending. Thanks everyone for reading this blog and posting your comments - well be back tomorrow morning at 9.30am. For a wrap of todays session, click here. Advertisement 4.39pm: The following Chinese data was released today: Consumer prices rose 1.8% yoy (1.7% expected) Producer prices fell 2.9% yoy (2.5% fall tipped) Industrial production rose 9.2% yoy (9.7% tipped) Retail sales grew 13.1% yoy (13.5% predicted) 4.33pm: ......[查看详情]

Thu Aug 9, 2012 3:45am EDT (Corrects 5th graf for day and level of euros high vs dollar) * Bank of Japan holds steady as expected; yen in recent ranges * Dollar index slips as risk appetite improves * New Zealand dollar falls on disappointing jobs data By Lisa Twaronite TOKYO, Aug 9 (Reuters) - The euro got a slight lift against major counterparts and the Australian dollar crested at a 4-1/2 month peak on Thursday after Chinese inflation data suggested scope for further easing and Australias employment picture brightened. Data showed Chinas annu......[查看详情]

The rapid growth of Chinese social networking sites, in addition to inadequate recruitment platforms has led to more companies turning to social media as a hiring strategy. Traditional recruitment processes, as they are understood in the West, only really started to be used in China after 1978, with the gradual liberalising of Chinas economy, said Mike Tims, the president of Asia, Middle East and Africa for global HR consultancy SHL Group, in a report by the Wall Street Journal. This has made it easier for China to leapfrog these traditional app......[查看详情]

May 10 2012 08:06 Reuters Tokyo - Asian shares struggled on Thursday, as a weak Chinese trade data stoked fears of a growth slowdown and further undermined risk appetite already reduced by worries about the health of Spanish banks and deepening political chaos in Greece. European shares will likely open mixed, with financial spreadbetters predicting that major European markets would open between a 0.3% rise and a 0.4% fall. US stock futures were up 0.2%. MSCIs broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan , which has declined for the past ......[查看详情]

27 March 2012 Dubbed as iPhone 5, Apples next flagship smartphone is one of the most talked about topics online. According to recent rumors an expected fall release date may have been moved to as early as June for the iPhone 5. Rumors of the iPhone 5 early debut sparked from reports coming from China saying that Foxconn, Apples top manufacturing partner, is hiring 20, 000 workers for its Taiyuan City manufacturing plant which is targeted to assemble the next generation iPhone. Foxconn factories likewise assembled the iPhone 4S and they have alre......[查看详情]

March 19, 2012 Oh, dearie dear, the public radio show This American Life got tripped by the fiction/journalism divide and had to retract one of its most popular stories -- a selection from the one-man play The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Apparently, author and performer Mike Daisey played fast and loose with admittedly important assertions. Some reporters in China who had heard Daiseys piece on This American Life thought some of the details sounded off, such as his claims about gun-toting guards at Foxconn and employees admitting to bei......[查看详情]