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China Center Chart of the Week: Recent jump in bank deposits likely boosted by new WMP regulations This chart shows changes in the stock of Fri, 10 May 2013 UTC http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2496 http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2496 China Center Chart of the Week: Recent jump in bank deposits likely boosted by new WMP regulations This chart shows changes in the stock of Fri, 10 May 2013 UTC http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2496 http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2496 China Center Chart of the Week: China’s manufacturing PMI should be taken with a growing grain of salt This chart shows the performance of China’s Mon, 06 May 2013 UTC http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2494 http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2494 New Trends in Energy Markets and More Competitive Economies (Part 1) <p>While the rapid growth of emerging economies creates upward pressure on many energy and commodity prices, there is also considerable volatility in these markets depending on supply and demand conditions as well as short term shocks. What are implications of uncertainty on the economic outlook? How do we gauge how realist a forecast is given the Thu, 23 May 2013 UTC http://www.conference-board.org/webcasts/webcastdetail.cfm?webcastid=2998 http://www.conference-board.org/webcasts/webcastdetail.cfm?webcastid=2998 New Trends in Energy Markets and More Competitive Economies (Part 2) <p>The discovery and exploration of shale gas in North America has the potential to change energy markets worldwide. Despite concerns about the environment and macroeconomic impacts, shale gas is projected to make the Unites States less dependent on imported sources of energy and fuels. How does the emergence of this new sector in the United States Tue, 28 May 2013 UTC http://www.conference-board.org/webcasts/webcastdetail.cfm?webcastid=2999 http://www.conference-board.org/webcasts/webcastdetail.cfm?webcastid=2999