UPDATE 1-Soft landing for China economy not yet assured-IMF
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A soft landing for China&#39;s booming economy was not yet a sure thing, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, despite a raft of measures by Beijing to slow investment in overheated sectors.
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China's economy will continue to race ahead at a near double-digit rate, analysts said Monday, despite a call by Premier Wen Jiabao's for a more controlled pace of development.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - China has lost faith in the stability of the U.S. dollar and its first priority is to broaden the exchange rate for its currency from the dollar to a more flexible basket of currencies, a top Chinese economist said Wednesday at the World Economic Forum.
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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has predicted that the Chinese economy would grow by 8 percent in 2005, saying a restrictive economic policy would lead to a slowdown.
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China's economy, the world's second largest, is not as big as was thought, a report by the World Bank claims.
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BEIJING: China sought yesterday to soothe concerns over a surprise interest rate rise, its first in nearly a decade and one which is expected to start a series of increases to cool growth in the world&#39;s seventh-biggest economy.
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BEIJING - Growth in China's economy slowed slightly in the third quarter, a sign that tightening measures were taking effect, the government said yesterday. Economists said the peak of the latest boom may have passed.
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In the first half of 2004, commodities investors worried that a hard landing for China's economy could be disastrous for them, but those fears have not borne out.
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The International Monetary Fund has cut  its forecast for global growth next year slightly amid  expectations that the U.S. and Chinese economies will not  expand as strongly as previously thought.
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China&#39;s annual inflation rate dropped sharply in November, providing further evidence that steps to cool the economy are working and reducing the chances in the near term of a fresh rise in interest rates.
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BEIJING China&#39;s efforts to slow the economy by curbing investments in industries such as steel and cement are working, a senior official said Sunday, suggesting that further tightening measures such as an interest rate increase may be unnecessary.
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The International Monetary Fund said Friday China remains reluctant to float its currency. In its discussions with Chinese authorities about the country&#39;s economy, the IMF said
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China&#39;s leaders should not relax their efforts to cool the country&#39;s fast-growing economy, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
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The US economy appears set for a soft landing, the OECD said Wednesday, but it warned that the troubled sub-prime mortgage sector still poses a major risk.
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The world economy is sound, although  financial markets may remain ragged for some time, and China  must let its currency rise faster to rebalance global growth,  finance officials from rich nations said on Friday.
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Beijing. (Interfax-China) - China will speed up economic restructuring and reform and the adoption of market-based systems. Meanwhile, China will continue to maintain its open-door policies and meeting its
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A communique issued in Chile by finance ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum conveys an impression that currency flexibility in China is a rather long work-in-progress, if it&#39;s even that.