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There was so much noise coming out of Washington in 2012 about the fiscal cliff, budget deficits, taxes and especially jobs that these topics became the primary conversation at many a holiday cocktail party. Over the past few weeks I’ve been asked about the current state of offshoring vs. onshoring at least a half a dozen times. Some of the inquisitors have come from a reasonably informed perspective, while others have attempted to cloak the issue of onshoring in some form of sociological or moral high ground related to the U.S. workers’ entitlement to jobs....More

Fiat, which became the world's seventh-largest automaker after taking a majority stake in Chrysler, has been conspicuous by its absence from the critical Chinese market....More

In the wake of the global recession, state-owned and state-controlled enterprises account for as much as half of the Chinese economy, according to a report released today, raising growing concerns about Chinese investments in the United States....More

The forecast for all commercial airplanes -- large and small -- is lower than a similar estimate by Boeing Co. released in September that said China will need 5,260 commercial jets by 2031....More

China's Communist leaders are promising to revolutionize the world's second largest economy and move on from being the world's workshop, but economists say the monumental task faces major hurdles. Outgoing President Hu Jintao said GDP would double in a decade and pledged a "transformation of the economic growth model" in his report to the nation at the five-yearly Communist Party congress under way in Beijing....More

Most companies are still operating below capacity hamstrung by unstable electricity supplies, lack of funds and high labor costs while others have pulled down the shutters or relocated to neighboring countries, according to an industry group....More

China's erformance was the weakest since a 6.6% expansion in the first three months of 2009....More

The International Monetary Fund on Friday all but ruled out a hard landing for China's slowing economy, saying it would expand despite increasing headwinds from battered markets in Europe and the United States....More

Economists further predict a poor end to the year that will see the ruble come under pressure from global prices on Russian energy -- its most important export -- slipping off their current levels on renewed European concerns....More

The upcoming presidential debates are going to be the last serious chance for Romney and Obama to put some serious meat on their rival claims to be trade hawks....More

Company said it will meet its sales target of 5.35 million units for 2013, up around 11% from a year earlier....More

The investment comes after a string of similar deals as China deepens its presence in Indonesia before the resource-rich nation implements a blanket ban on ore exports, slated for 2014....More