新华网快讯：国家统计局：７月份食品类价格同比上涨１４．４％。其中肉禽及其制品价格上涨１６％（其中猪肉价格上涨１２．１％），鲜菜价格上涨８．４％，粮食价格上涨８．６％。

    新华网快讯：国家统计局１２日发布的数据显示，从月环比看，７月份居民消费价格总水平比６月份上涨０．１％。

此外，人民币升值速度今年还有所加快，自1月份以来上升逾8%。在此期间，中国寻求利用人民币汇率——外加提高利率和收紧国内商业银行的准备金要求——来抑制不断上升的通胀压力。

但是，人民币升值速度本月已放缓，兑美元汇率仅上升0.2%，远低于今年逾1%的月度平均升幅。

的确，仍由中国政府严密管理的人民币汇率，周一出现自三年前与美元脱钩以来的最大单日跌幅。

这引发人们猜测：北京已从利用人民币汇率作为遏制通胀压力的工具

新华社快讯：国家统计局１２日发布的数据显示，４月份我国居民消费价格总水平同比上涨８.５％，涨幅比上月攀升０.２个百分点。

国家统计局网站消息 4月份，居民消费价格总水平同比上涨8.5%。其中，城市上涨8.1%，农村上涨9.3%；食品价格上涨22.1%，非食品价格上涨1.8%；消费品价格上涨10.6%，服务项目价格上涨1.7%。从月环比看，居民消费价格总水平比3月份微涨0.1%；食品价格下降0.1%，其中鲜菜下降9.2%，鲜蛋下降0.5%.

一、食品类价格同比上涨22.1%。其中，肉禽及其制品价格上涨47.9%（其中猪肉价格上涨68.3%

投机客科斯托拉尼（Andre Kostolany）有一句格言：“经济和金融的关系就像是主人和他的狗，狗常常跑在主人前面；但当离开主人有一段距离的时候，它又会跑回来找他的主人。”居住用商品房的价格就是那只狗，房地产供需的基本面就是那位主人。

A real estate agency closing hundreds of branches while the owner of another absconds; property developers cancelling fundraisings and debt spreads widening dramatically; house prices slumping – these sound like recent tales from the US housing market.

　　《福布斯》发表的声明指出，2007年中国富豪榜头40名都是亿万富翁，而一年前只有15名。另外，在40名富豪名单中，有十多人是房地产商。

抢先胡润百富榜一步，昨晚，《福布斯》亚洲版公布了2007年中国富豪榜，现年26岁的杨惠妍——碧桂园创始人之一的杨国强之女，以高达162亿美元的个人净资产荣登榜首。而去年上榜首富黄光裕，今年跌落到第10位。

China opens a new era of engagement in global capital markets with the launch today of a sovereign wealth fund designed to invest more aggressively a portion of its swelling foreign exchange reserves.

At a ceremony in Beijing, the China Investment Corp will officially unveil its management team, under the leadership of Lou Jiwei, a former vice-finance minister, and may also outline its investment strategy.

The fund will initially have about $200bn ( 140.5bn, £98bn)

China is to enforce a freeze on all government-controlled prices in a sign of Beijing's alarm about rising popular anger over inflation, now at its highest rate in more than a decade.

The order freezes a vast array of prices still under the control of government in China, ranging from oil, electricity and water to the cost of parking and park entrance fees.

The order, issued jointly by six ministries yesterday, comes after a vaguely worded announcement on the need to preve

China passed the country's first anti-monopoly law yesterday, nearly 14 years after it was first proposed, in a move ostensibly aimed at encouraging fair competition but which many foreign investors fear will lock them out of the world's fastest-growing market.

The new law allows the government to conduct “national security reviews” of foreign acquisitions of domestic enterprises, something it already has the power to do under regulations issued last year by the Ministry of Com

The Chinese stock market is now bigger in terms of market value than the Japanese market if Chinese companies listed in Hong Kong are taken into account, underlining the dramatic surge in the country's financial markets over the past 18 months.

The rapid rise in the value of Chinese companies is partly due to a strong rally during August, when most other markets around the world have seen panic selling because of concerns about a credit crunch.

While many analysts on the m