2011-04-18

Hänt i veckan 10-17 april, del 2

Intressanta saker jag läst i veckan, men inte hunnit kommentera.
Se även del 1 och del 3.

Mellanöstern

Södra Asien

Afrika

Kina
  • I tisdags skrev E24 "Överdriven bubbeloro i Kina"
  • Men sen kunde vi läsa "Moody's Investors Service on Thursday downgraded its outlook for China's property sector to negative from stable on concerns about deteriorating credit conditions for developers over the next 12 to 18 months."
  • Och att "Chinese companies have this year embarked on an unprecedented borrowing spree in international bond markets, a trend driven by property developers starved of credit by state-owned banks."
  • Växtvärk i Kina? "China’s power demand may gain 12 percent this year, said the research unit of the nation’s largest electricity distributor. Power consumption may rise to 4.7 trillion kilowatt-hours, according to slides presented by State Grid Corp. of China’s research institute at a conference in Beijing today. First- quarter electricity use grew 13 percent from a year earlier to 1.1 trillion kilowatt-hours, State Grid said. The forecast is higher than an earlier estimate from the National Energy Administration. Power demand may rise 9 percent to 4.5 trillion kilowatt-hours this year, slowing from a 15 percent gain in 2010, the administration said on Jan. 28."
  • All the soybeans in Iowa won’t be enough to meet the anticipated surge in China’s imports over the next four years as the nation feeds a record pig herd and drives bean prices to an all-time high. China, which doubled meat consumption in the past two decades, may boost international soybean purchases 33 percent to 66.9 million metric tons by 2014, a 16.6 million-ton increase that is more than Iowa, the largest U.S. grower, produced last year, government data show. U.S. farmers are cutting back on planting, meaning prices will rise 21 percent to $16.80 a bushel by Dec. 31, a Bloomberg survey of 20 analysts shows. “China is building a livestock and meat industry in five years that took the United States 50 years,” "
    Går det inte lite väl snabbt här också?

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1 kommentar:

  1. Växtvärk i Kina? / Power demand may rise 9 percent 2011.
    Vi handlar en del från Kina. Två av våra leverantörer meddelar samtidigt att de förlänger produktionstiden från 10 till 40 dagar med omedelbar verkan. Staten tvingar fabrikerna att arbeta utan strömförsörjning två dagar per vecka året ut utan slutdatum. Anledningen skall vara en rättvis fördelning av elen bland Kinas växande industriföretag..

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