The yield on two-year US Treasury notes climbed above the 10-year note for the first time since 2007. Also the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond fell to a record low.
The year 2020 was supposed to be one of uninterrupted globalization and free trade-until the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a cataclysmic effect on the world's economies.
There are also companies with business plans fixed for the duration of the last financial year and are committed to the procurement of goods and services prior to the outbreak. Unless the relevant contracts have a force majeure clause that covers the pandemic, it is difficult for businesses to back out from their commitments.
The world's leading home furnishing retailer, Ikea, opened its online flagship store on Alibaba's e-commerce platform Tmall on Tuesday, showing the Swedish industry leader's confidence in the Chinese market as the novel coronavirus outbreak is increasingly under control in the country.
The writer is vice-president and senior economist at the Center for China and Globalization, a non-governmental think tank based in Beijing.
There are 13.7 percent of Singaporean adults with diabetes, the second-highest rate in developed nations, according to an International Diabetes Federation report in 2015.
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The year 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300,000 Chinese were brutally murdered by Japanese invaders when they occupied Nanjing on Dec 13, 1937, marking the start of six weeks of destruction, pillage, rape and slaughter in Nanjing.
There are currently more than 500 Chinese-invested enterprises in Tanzania, offering jobs to about 600,000 local people.
There are now more than 300 dancing clubs in the city that cater to wealthy enthusiasts who would prefer to stay out of the public eye. At these clubs, participants learn proper techniques from professional dancers who also help to design a choreographed routine for their stage performances.
There are 533,000 administrative villages and 2.45 million natural villages in China, of which the listed traditional villages are the "pearls," inheriting the historical memory of the Chinese nation, the Chinese wisdom in production and life, culture and art, according to the ministry.