Lottery sales dropped to 30.81 billion yuan (5.03 billion U.S. dollars) in March, down 6.3 percent year on year, official data showed on Wednesday.
Most Australian companies boosted their profits in the past year, but their sales remained flat, according to a new report released on Wednesday.
New Zealand manufacturers sold more by volume in the quarter to the end of December last year, but their sales values fell due to falling dairy prices, the government statistics agency said Monday.
Auto sales of General Motors Co. ( GM) and its joint ventures in China reached record 261,072 units in February, up 1.3 percent year on year.
Gao, an official in north China's Shanxi Province, has noticed his colleagues dressing differently since the broom of austerity swept through the government two years ago.
Only cooperation between Internet operators, finance departments and anti-corruption departments can expose hidden corruption.
Philips had a decline in profit and sales in the fourth quarter, as well as over the entire year of 2014 due to weak currencies and falling demand and disappointing sales in emerging markets like Russia and China, the Dutch electronics giant reported on Tuesday.
Six Oscar nominated film "American Sniper" continued to take over the box offices in North America, adding 64.4 million U.S. dollars to its total gross.
U.S. stocks increased on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average logging fresh all-time intraday and closing highs, as the country's construction spending for October came out encouraging.
The Italian manufacturing industry is estimated to close 2014 with a slight worsening of sales and to restart growth in 2015, according to a joint study presented Tuesday by the Prometeia think tank and Intesa Sanpaolo bank.
U.S. builder confidence for newly-built, single-family homes rebounded in November as both sales expectation and buyer traffic improved, a leading industry report said Tuesday.
Chinese authorities are likely to relax the sales tax on existing homes, the Beijing-based China Securities Journal reported on Monday in a front-page story.
German car producer Audi AG has set a new record, selling 415,704 vehicles so far in 2014 on the Chinese market, the Ingolstadt-based company announced Monday.
Tieto, a Finnish information technology service provider, on Thursday announced it would lay off employees after its key costumer Nokia decided to reduce purchases of their research and development services.
Chicago agricultural commodities dropped across the board Thursday.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the country's central bank, should take moves to soften potential negative impacts of the government's planned next round of sales tax hike, a senior official of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) urged Monday.