China news agency Xinhua, reporting from Tokyo, said that the warning was lifted 07:47 local time.
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When momentum is pushing oil prices higher, any China news on demand will drive prices higher.
The China news Thursday is also a bullish underlying fundamental factor for the precious metals.
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The China news Thursday was also a significantly bullish fundamental factor for the precious metals.
The China news was also a bullish underlying factor for the raw commodity markets, including the precious metals.
The China news is a bullish underlying factor for the raw commodity sector, due to the demand implications.
China News Service notes simply that "Chavez was friendly towards China and visited China many times during his lifetime".
On Sunday the state-run China News Agency said a middle school in the nearby town of Baoxing had been heavily damaged.
The China news is also a bullish underlying factor for the raw commodity markets, including the precious metals, to start the new trading week.
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Crude oil prices are trading lower again early Tuesday, on the China news and amid reports Saudi Arabia will begin pumping more crude oil in July.
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Photos posted online by semi-official China News Service showed hundreds of residents gathered in the streets after the quake, some clothed in pajamas or wrapped in bedding.
Asian stock markets fell on the China news, while raw commodity markets, including gold and silver, were also seeing some selling pressure on the weak China data.
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Asian stock markets fell on the China news, while raw commodity markets, including gold and silver, also saw some selling pressure due to the weak China data.
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The Chinese military say that two of their East China Sea fleet fighter jets were scrambled to track an unnamed foreign surveillance aircraft on Sunday, according to China News Service.
But I am a heavy consumers of China news and see a lot of advertising, and was largely unaware that this relatively well-known name in the US had even come to China until I read about it in a recent report.
One other report from Shanghai's China Business News says the World Bank has published a report on China's government-controlled business.
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The FOMC and China manufacturing news have, for the moment, overshadowed the festering European Union sovereign debt crisis.
Positive economic data out of China and news that Greece passed its 2013 budget are boosting sentiment this morning.
The alliance agreement was signed on Friday, according to a report in the China Business News, a Chinese daily newspaper.
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According to reports from China Business News on Friday, Suntech has about 1 billion-yuan in short-term debts due by the end of the year.
In 2008, it launched the China African News Service while in April last year it teamed up with telecommunications firm Safaricom to start a mobile newspaper in Kenya.
Lucas said the markets were probably overreacting to the China growth news, but it creates a disquieting picture when coupled with last week's trade data showing some weakness in the country's exports.
DreamWorks Animation yesterday forged a strategic cooperation agreement with the Yurun Holding Group of China to bring dragon arena shows to the country, according to an advertisement by Yurun today in the China Business News daily paper.
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Despite the broad regional news, stocks in China were influenced by domestic news, as the Shanghai Composite fell 1.4% to 2294.34 after an editorial in a state-owned newspaper said that the country's recent loose monetary policy is coming to an end.
Resource shares supported the Sydney market, and the Australian dollar jumped briefly, after China's Xinhua news agency said the People's Bank of China would boost liquidity via its reserve requirement ratio.
Crude oil prices are trading moderately lower early Wednesday, on the China rate hike news.
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