The Financial, Insurance & Investment Blog

1. One of the most reliable leading indicators for assessing the state of the  economy is the PMI, formerly known as the Purchasing Managers...

1. One of the biggest electricity infrastructure suppliers in the world is throwing up its hands and giving up on solar energy. ABB is unloa...

1. The Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project in Pengerang, Johor, will be fully operational in the fourth quarte...

1. Starting in the early 1990s, Japan was in an extended economic slump. It first endured a prolonged period of bad debt and deflation. Then...

Continuation from below: https://levelnineatwork.blogspot.com/2017/07/reinsurance-basics-part-1-factreaty-and.html https://levelnineatwo...

1. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is now charged with reviewing foreign investments to ensure they are in line with “...

1. Japan has acknowledged that it cannot prevent China from using its economic might to help the region’s middle-income countries meet their...

1. There are two types of chamber of commerce certificates of origin that can be issued: 2. Non-Preferential Certificates of Origin The main...

1. Carbon steel is steel in which the main interstitial alloying constituent is carbon in the range of 0.12–2.0%.The term “carbon steel” may...

1. Japanese-backed projects in the region’s six largest economies – Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – are ...

1. China is inclined to renegotiate or write off debts incurred by other countries for its belt and road infrastructure projects and only ra...

1. The traditional electronics manufacturing process works well for large organizations that want to produce hundreds of thousands of produc...

1. The industrial lubricants industry, particularly in Asia, is reshaping its supply channels and marketing strategies.  2. Over the past ...

1. No matter whether you’re using a single gun and small oven or a large fully automated line, the process is basically the same.  2. A po...

1. There are 2 main families of additive manufacturing technologies 2. Powder bed technologies - Selective Laser Melting (SLM) where the...

1. The RCA clean is a standard set of wafer cleaning steps which need to be performed before high-temperature processing steps (oxidation, d...

1. With one of the fastest growing paint and coatings industries in the South East Asian region, Vietnam has attracted a number of regional ...

1. Steel coil- a finished steel product such as sheet or strip which has been wound or coiled after rolling. Steel coils can be classified i...

1. Motor continued to drive the local general insurance sector, which recorded a 1.5% growth, underpinned by the jump in car sales during th...

Having already transformed large swathes of the developing world over the past five years, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) now looks ...