With the global price hike of fuel oil and shortage of supplies due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Bangladesh is contemplating importing dozens of LNG cargoes from long-term suppliers to cope with the mounting natural gas demand.

随着全球燃料油价格上涨和俄乌冲突导致的供应短缺，孟加拉国正在考虑从长期供应商那里进口数十批液化天然气货物，以应对日益增长的天然气需求。

A short supply and price hike of key materials crucial to electronic appliances lasted over a year, while shortages of containers and cargos, as well as skyrocketing shipping fees threatened the operation of the SEMP TCL's manufacturing base in Manaus, Amazon state.

Alibaba is going to purchase another 12 percent of YTO Express stakes for 6.6 billion yuan, which will hike its shareholding in the Chinese courier to 22.5 percent, according to YTO Express.

With the recent White House's Sept 1 tariff hike on apparel from China announced only a few weeks before it hit, Swenson and her team ramped up production and called on their Chinese partners to deliver.

The announcement came shortly after its rival China Unicom said it had posted a 457.8 percent hike in net profit for 2018 to 10.19 billion yuan, as a result of strong data revenue growth and benefits from the company's mixed ownership reform.

"I would suggest that the price hike in China should be limited to 20 percent compared to the price tag in the country of origin," she said.

China's biggest online marketplace for long-haul deliveries is in advanced negotiations with new and existing backers, including SoftBank Group Corp and Tencent Holdings Ltd, on a funding round that could hike its valuation by as much as 40 percent to $9 billion, the people said, requesting not to be named discussing private deals.

Ma and his family's wealth increased by $10 billion to $39 billion, on the back of a hike in the valuation of online payment arm Alipay's mothership Ant Financial.

Ma and his family's wealth increased by $10 billion to $39 billion, on the back of a hike in the valuation of the online payment arm Alipay's mothership Ant Financial.

We wouldn't worry that the (China-US) trade tension may result in a tariff hike on our blowers.

One minute can cost 100,000-300,000 yuan and "some companies hike their prices to 1 million yuan a minute when they carry out medium-term projects," he said.

The company attributed the expected profit hike mainly to growing sales compared with 2016.

The Chinese market has achieved a 150 percent year-on-year hike in infant formula sales in the 2017 financial year, the report added.

"Industrial companies generally saw a hike in operational costs in recent years, which was caused in part by rising housing prices.

Ming Ming, chief economist of CITIC Securities, said: "Since the last rate hike in July 2023, the Fed has been constantly playing with the market by releasing hawkish signals, trying to correct the expectation of a premature start of interest rate cuts.

Tech firms urged to hike investments in basic research, strategic fieldsChina's efforts to boost its digital economy and platform companies, and speed up the integration of the digital and real economy will foster new growth drivers and inject strong impetus into the country's economic recovery amid downward pressure, experts and company executives said.

Shanghai-listed offline supermarket and department store operators saw a 46 percent net profit hike year-on-year, said the stock exchange.

Shanghai-listed offline supermarket and department store operators saw a 46-percent net profit hike, said the stock exchange.

Experts warned that the turmoil could further evolve as the Fed's rate hike cycle is yet to come to an end, with its latest interest rate decision due to be unveiled on Wednesday.

Despite the recent hike, the commission predicts that the international market will see a downward trend in the short term, as demand for winter heating is gradually fading and European countries have already stocked up on crude oil and refined oil products in advance.

While interest rates will remain high in the US, any hike levels will likely be lower.

But the renminbi may still feel some depreciation pressure from the greenback in the near term as the Fed rate hike cycle has yet to end while COVID-19 uncertainties remain in China, she said.

China's fiscal and monetary policies may maintain an accommodative stance with controllable inflation levels in the coming three to six months, versus the ongoing rate hike cycle in the United States and Europe to tame sticky high inflation, said Goldman Sachs' chief China economist Shan Hui.

"Despite the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the United States' interest rate hike, Chinese exporters, backed by the government's supportive measures and new foreign trade formats such as cross-border e-commerce business, have been busy in upgrading their product structure this year," he said, adding the country's export impetus is no longer dominated by products with low industrial added value.

The backpedaling on many of these commitments has been furious ever since the Russia-Ukraine conflict triggered a dip in supplies and a hike in natural gas prices.

Wang Qing, chief analyst at the Golden Credit Rating, said the CPI growth in September was mainly attributed to the hike of pork and vegetable prices.

Wang added that although there is certain room for a pork price hike, it is in a downturn trend against the background of the release of the central reserve pork.

The Fed's interest rate hike is in the interests of the US and Wall Street, but is no cure for inflation and therefore is expected to have little effect over the short term.

US stocks swung after the Fed's half-percentage point rate hike on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 up 2.99 percent on Wednesday but down 3.56 percent on Thursday to close at 4,146.

They made the remarks after the US Federal Reserve approved a half-percentage point interest rate increase on Wednesday－its second hike this year and its biggest in 22 years－to stem the highest inflation level in the US in four decades.

In addition, the US Federal Reserve announced earlier this month a 25-basis-point interest rate hike, which may trigger adjustments in international capital flows, as well as changes in supply and demand in global financial markets.

At present, the US is facing severe inflationary pressure, and the inflation level will exceed the target range in the next two years, which is exactly the basis for the rate hike move.

The interest rate hike by the Fed has led to dynamic changes in the interest rate gap between China and the US, which will have a certain impact on the renminbi exchange rate.

The population of new urban residents has been growing along with the continuous hike in the urbanization rate.

Economists from investment bank Goldman Sachs have lately predicted that the US Fed will hike interest rates seven times this year to rein in the surging inflation.

As inflation in the US has been more persistent and higher than expected, markets are anticipating that the Fed will start to raise interest rates from near zero much earlier next year, and will perform interest rate hike more than once.

Tapering might start at the beginning of next year, and a rate hike may happen by the end of 2022, Ming said.

Any possible balance sheet reduction or interest rate hike by the Fed could strengthen the greenback and therefore worsen the cross-border capital flows of emerging market economies, she said.

The price hike in certain industries including steel and non-ferrous metals was subdued, as their prices turned from rising to falling in June.

US financial group Goldman Sachs predicted that the US Federal Reserve may implement the first rate hike in the second half of 2023.

In addition, companies said price hike of materials, exchange rate fluctuation and unsmooth marine logistics are other challenges.

During an inspection trip to Ningbo, Zhejiang province, on Monday and Tuesday, Li said the government will seek to properly guide market expectations, strengthen its reserves, conduct market regulation and target hoarding and profiteering in order to deal with the recent hike in commodity prices.

The government must take very seriously the adverse impact caused by the price hike, and take both holistic and focused measures in light of market dynamics to exercise precision regulation, so as to ensure the supply of commodities and curb unreasonable price increases and prevent transmission to consumer price.

The increase in the growth rate of consumption is deemed a result of the low cardinal number effect, price hike and policies for stabilizing consumption and stimulating domestic demand.

While speaking positively of the government's rollout of tax cuts and fee reductions, they highlighted the mounting costs faced by businesses due to the hike in international bulk community prices.

China saw a CPI hike in January 2020, which was mainly driven by the effect of the Spring Festival holiday.

The country will see a mild price hike in 2021, according to data from the CAS, when the consumer price index will rise by about 1.1 percent, producer price index by 1.7 percent, and purchasing price index of raw material by 2.6 percent.

The iShares MSCI China ETF notched a yearly hike of 28 percent.

Currently, major economies have entered an interest rate hike cycle, resulting in China's weak external demand, and the increased geopolitical risks have led to a significant decline in foreign direct investment in China.

The "Shennongjia hike" experienced a significant increase in search volume in March.

"In Vietnam, the booming export to China has fueled a price hike in durian-growing areas, prompting many farmers to switch to durian farming.

Average travel duration has increased from 9 to 11 days, and the overall per capita budget for outbound tourists has risen from 34,300 yuan to 39,800 yuan, a hike of 16 percent.

As hard as the hike is, Ge feels more excited than tired as she gets ready to set up the next camping activity for a group of pupils.

The company also attracted Unity Ventures and Hike Capital as investors in earlier years.

Therefore, industrial experts suggest Chinese shipbuilders be aware of a rise in commodity prices, and add items for a possible cost hike in their contracts to ensure their profitability.

After completion, the complex is expected to produce 550,000 tons of fresh milk annually and hike up incomes of about 40,000 herdsmen and farmers in the region, said Zhao Jiejun, vice president of Mengniu Dairy headquartered in the regional capital Hohhot that is cooperating with the local government to carry out the project.

Rising prices of copper, as well as other metals, have also been felt by Chinese downstream manufacturers as seen in the higher PPI growth, she said, adding that high copper costs have prompted some home appliance producers to hike product prices.

Xu Xiaole, chief market analyst with Beike Real Estate Research Institute, said he does not anticipate a home price hike and said the marginal spike seen in major cities are part of market fluctuations due to the resilient demand and improved financing.

The pick-up in housing rates was driven by a price hike in some cities, especially those with solid transactions and in the process of recovery, said Yan Yuejin, research director at E-house China R&D Institute.

July is the third month in a row that Yinchuan has seen the biggest hike in new home prices, and it is necessary for noncore second-tier cities to take equally proactive measures in taming home prices, especially as their eastern peers are maintaining their policies effectively," said Yan Yuejin, director of the Shanghai-based E-house China Research and Development Institution.

The southern Chinese city announced on Wednesday a slew of tightening measures including tighter eligibility requirements for homebuyers, hike in down payments and an increase in the transaction tax.

This is the second hike in fuel prices this year.

The industry body's figures also showed that sales of food items, which were generally exempted from the 2-percentage-point tax hike from 8 percent, dipped 0.2 percent, with demand for alcohol subject to a 10-percent tax not recovering after being pushed up in September on last-minute demand.

"Large-scale gold producers are increasing capacity and output to ride on the price hike.

"The bike rental fare hike may help companies ease the pressure to turn profitable.

The Federal Reserves' fourth interest rate hike last year further complicated the situation by fanning anxieties over sagging economic growth.

China will raise the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from 12 am Saturday, marking the fourth straight price hike since September, according to the country's top economic planner.

The NDRC price monitoring center attributed the rising prices to a crude oil price hike in the global markets.

The tariff hike will take effect on Aug 23, bringing the total worth of Chinese goods facing a 25 percent tariff to 50 billion dollars.

Molson Coors Brewing Company, which owns Miller Coors, has also decided to hike prices of its beers for Chicago-area retailers.

"Efforts to boost 'new infrastructure' have been highlighted at many high-level meetings in recent years, and China has an urgent need for such efforts amid its green transformation push, as demand for charging piles will continue to hike in the years to come," said Long Chaocan, an investment consultant with China Galaxy Securities Co Ltd.

In a Dec 31 statement, BYD announced that it would hike prices of its models by between 2,000 yuan ($291) and 6,000 yuan from Jan 1, claiming the removal of the subsidies resulted in a rise in its manufacturing costs.

The total installed capacity of power batteries in China reached 154.5 gigawatt-hours in 2021, a year-on-year hike of 143 percent, accounting for 52 percent of the world's total, said Zhang Yunming, vice-minister of industry and information technology.

Sometimes we hike with family and friends, sometimes we go fishing," said the 45-year-old.

Rising raw material costs cause electric carmakers to hike up their pricesElectric carmakers including Tesla and BYD have hiked prices on some of their models in China citing rising raw material costs, but company executives remain optimistic on the sector's long-term prospects.

Executives from across the sector also asked the government to provide incentives to scrap old vehicles, which they said would help boost sales, and urged officials to reconsider a proposal to hike registration fees for automobiles as it would hurt demand, the two sources said.

However, in contrast to the carmakers' resorting to raising prices and stimulating consumption, Yu Qingjiao, secretary-general of the Zhongguancun New Battery Technology Innovation Alliance, said that the price hike will not become a trend, but a temporary phenomenon.

WASHINGTON－Two major auto trade groups on Wednesday warned the Trump administration that imposing up to 25 percent tariffs on imported vehicles would cost hundreds of thousands of auto jobs, dramatically hike prices on vehicles and threaten industry spending on self-driving cars.

The price hike of raw materials was part of the reason for reduced profits in downstream battery firms.

You can expect to see a hike later in December," said Cui Dongshu, the association's secretary-general.

Matrix Partners China, Blue Run Ventures and Hike Capital increased their investment.

What caught analysts' greater attention was the Fed's hint that it may implement another rate hike of 25 basis points by the end of the year and may cut the rates by only 50 basis points in 2024, versus 100 basis points it implied in June.

Simultaneously, inflation retreating from high levels, nonfarm payrolls remaining below expectations, a likely end to the US Federal Reserve's interest rate hike cycle and a potentially weakened spillover effect have all provided a rationale for the interest rate cuts.

The Fed has not said whether Wednesday's move marked the end of its rate hike campaign, with Fed Chair Jerome Powell stating that it is both possible for the Fed to raise or hold steady interest rates in September.

Guan said it remains highly uncertain when the US Federal Reserve will end interest rate hikes, and there may be another interest rate hike after July.

The hike will help boost capital inflows, increase onshore foreign exchange liquidity and stabilize foreign exchange market expectations, Wang said, vowing to effect more measures to anchor market expectations.

Currency faces pressure amid Fed rate hikes, slowing economic reboundChinese authorities are closely watching renminbi exchange rate movement and would take further action to defend the currency if it depreciates too rapidly amid the seemingly unfinished US rate hike cycle, experts said on Thursday.

Minutes from the June meeting of the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee, released on Wednesday, said that "almost all" meeting participants believe additional interest rate hikes would be appropriate, though the Fed skipped a rate hike in June to "assess additional information".

Move comes amid stepped-up efforts to consolidate recovery, hike confidenceChina's central bank cut its short-term lending rate, the first such move since August 2022, as the country stepped up measures to consolidate economic recovery and restore market confidence amid downward pressure, analysts said on Tuesday.

Last week, the Fed raised the target range for the federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point to the 5 to 5.25 percent range, its 10th rate hike since March 2022, before which the target range was kept at 0 to 0.25 percent since early 2020.

Explaining the reason for the 50-basis-point rate hike, ECB President Christine Lagarde said that core price pressure remains strong, and so does wage pressure in the eurozone.

China's monetary policy will have more flexibility to accommodate the nation's ongoing economic recovery in the coming months as the United States' Federal Reserve has implied a rate hike pause, experts said on Thursday.

On Wednesday, the US Fed imposed its 10th interest rate hike since March 2022 by a quarter of a percentage point to the 5 to 5.25 percent range as expected, while no longer saying it "anticipates" further rate increases to bring down inflation.

Instead, the Fed said it will determine the extent to which additional policy firming may be appropriate, a significant change in wording that has made most analysts forecast a rate hike pause in June, with some even foreseeing the possibility of a rate cut by the end of the year.

"The signal is clear that the Fed is very much close to the end of its rate hike campaign," said Zhong Zhengsheng, chief economist at Ping An Securities.

Continuing its efforts to curb inflation, the Fed increased key interest rates by 25 basis points to the range of 4.75 percent to 5 percent on Wednesday, but no longer declared that ongoing increases in rates will likely be appropriate while hinting at only one more rate hike of 25 basis points ahead this year.

This has indicated that the Fed's rate hike cycle is reaching a conclusion, experts said.

Pundits urge stronger regulation of rate hike risks and asset-liability structureFinancial experts in China said Silicon Valley Bank's demise in the United States appears to suggest it is probably time for the US Federal Reserve to reconsider sustained aggressive rate hikes, which many believe have caused lethal liquidity problems in banks like SVB.

China's commercial banks and financial regulators must learn from the failure of SVB during the Fed's aggressive interest rate hike cycle, due to mismatches between long-term investments and short-term liabilities, Zhang added.

"The demise of SVB tells us that once the macroeconomy enters an interest rate hike cycle, especially a prolonged and aggressive one, regulators should require lenders to take measures to optimize their asset structure in advance, particularly by closely monitoring banks' market and credit risks, which can be transformed into liquidity risk and ultimately lead to a crisis of trust and bank runs," said Zhang in the article.