The Secretary of State for Transport and Communications of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, said the government has taken “the first steps” for creating a national airline.

China’s services sector grew at its slowest pace in nine months in October, a survey showed on November 3.

Brazil posted a trade deficit of US$1.18 billion in October, data from the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade showed on November 3.

Cape Verdean state airline TACV “should be privatised by mid 2015”, local newspaper A Semana quoted the country’s Minister for Infrastructure and Maritime Economy, Sara Lopes, as saying.

China’s official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) eased to 50.8 in October from September’s 51.1, the National Bureau of Statistics said on November 1.