Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'chemicals industry'
China GDP Slowdown No Surprise
By John Richardson ALL but two analysts out of a Bloomberg survey of 41 over-estimated China's first-quarter GDP growth. Monday's announcement of the 7.7% increase - pushing China in to the longest streak of expansion below 8% for 20 years...
Innovation: No More Time Left To Lose
Source of picture: http://whyfiles.org/ By John Richardson MY colleague Nigel Davis has written an excellent Insight article which highlights how some chemicals companies are seeking to respond to changing patterns. As we have discussed before, Bayer Material Science...
China Govt Confirms Post-CNY Labour Shortages
The great news behind rising labour costs: Shan Dalin, pictured with his family, is a crane operator from Southwest China's Guizhou province who has worked in eastern Zhejiang province for 10 years. In 2012, Shan's monthly income rose to...
Average Babyboomer Turns 55
Today is a day for celebration, as it marks the day that the average Western BabyBoomer, born in 1958, will join the New Old 55+ generation! This is a truly remarkable moment. Even 100 years ago, as the chart above...
Planning For New Growth Patterns
By John Richardson "Have you noticed that your parents spend less money than you do?" asks Merryn Somerset Webb in this Financial Times article. She agrees with us that the answer is, of course, "Yes". This very neatly brings the...
The BRICS Fallacy
By John Richardson THE above chart, from a new Research Note released by fellow blogger Paul Hodges, exposes the fallacy that BRICS and emerging-market growth can by themselves rescue the global economy. And, as we have highlighted before on this blog,...
China's Demographic Crisis
Chinese govt poster promoting the one-child policy By John Richardson IF all you can remember is strong emerging markets growth, then it is easy to be misled into only building into your scenarios the notion that China and...
Restocking Price Recoveries Will Be Deceptive
By John Richardson WE will see, as we did in the second half of last year, chemical price recoveries on restocking as inventories are at very-low levels down many of the value chains. It will only take slight improvements in...
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