By PAMELA SAMPSON AP Business Writer BANGKOK — Asian stock markets rebounded Friday after encouraging economic data from China and Europe raised hopes that a global economic recovery was underway. A survey released Thursday by HSBC Corp. indicated that manufacturing in China had expanded in August, the latest evidence that the world’s second-largest economy may […]

Improvements are evident in only half of the slew of indicators measuring the government’s progress on sustainable development, a report has  found. The annual Sustainable Development Indicators for Wales  report for 2013 found only 22  of the 44 indicators showed  “clear improvement”, 18 had  seen “little or no change” while  bird populations had shown  “clear […]

Manufacturing is showing signs of returning to the UK, a phenomenon referred to as onshoring with a prime example being Raspberry Pi’s decision to move some manufacturing from China to Wales. A recent report on the topic by Cambridge University’s Dr Finbarr Livesey, ‘Made at home, owning abroad,’ [pdf] lays out the case […]

Upon first glance, performance has been shaky at best for American manufacturing of late. As of late June, figures show US manufacturers at their lowest rate of production in over four years.   The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing […]