........ Source: FT Beyondbrics By John Richardson A fascinating article by the academic Anil K Gupta and consultant Haiyan Wang offers further support to our long-running argument that the future will not necessarily be the same as the future,...
Source: New York Times By John Richardson INVENTORIES of finished goods are mounting in factories across China as manufacturers continue to run hard, according to this New York Times article - perhaps in the hope that in 3-6...
The second of our series of blog posts on China's economic challenges over the next 12-18 months focuses on deflation. By John Richardson DEFLATION has now become a major concern for the Chinese economy following the release of official...
By John Richardson THE "luxury end" of China's polyethylene (PE) market is being heavily targeted by overseas producers and the results so far have been pretty spectacular, according to one of the producers. "The annual growth in demand...
By John Richardson BUTADIENE is an extreme example of what my fellow blogger Paul Hodges described yesterday as happening across several major petrochemicals markets. Panicky buyers have, just as they did last year, "bought forward" in the hope that by...
By John Richardson CAN China succeed in transforming its economy from one which is over-reliant on exports to one where domestic consumption is a much bigger driver of growth? And how long will this process take and in the interim,...
By John Richardson CHINA'S economy would only expand by 5% in H2 of this year and in the first half of 2012 on an annualised basis, said Diana Choyleva, a Hong Kong-based economist for Lombard Street Research. This was the result of credit tightening as...
By John Richardson ASIAN ethylene and polyethylene (PE) margins both fell last week - a further indication that the Chinese market remains weak. Bonded warehouses are still full of PE as a result of high imports in March at...
Europe and China: A two-tier market is hard to bear... Source of picture: blog.pinkcakebox By John Richardson CHINA'S polyolefin pricing is likely to remain under downward pressure over the next few months as a result of a persistent inventory...
.......and no trite Public Relations-speak answers, please!!! This is not me, by the way, (my computer is an older model) but the expression about sums it up www.scienceblogs.com No matter where you seem to turn these days, whether...
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