The price of oil is reducing during today's trading due to poor statistics on the Chinese economy and the further strengthening of the dollar, writes Reuters.

China plans to increase investment in the development of shale gas, and this can lead to an increase in production of this type of hydrocarbons up to 6 billion 500 million cubic meters next year. This year, the production will be of 1 billion 500 million cubic meters, -writes Bloomberg.

Business index in the manufacturing sector of the industry of the PRC, according to preliminary data showed an unexpected rise, although the manufacturing sector has been reduced workforce, writes Bloomberg.

From January to August of this year, the investment in the fixed assets in China, not including agriculture, reached the volume of 30 trillion 600 billion Yuan, which was equivalent to $ 4 trillion 990 billion dollars. This is 16.5% more than in January-August 2013. The report of the Statistical Department of China contains such data.

In August 2014 the surplus level of the foreign trade balances of China rose to the record high - 49 billion 840 million dollars. Such data are published by the government of the country.