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NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks wavered and posted gains for the week, as investors mainly focused on tax legislation progress and newly-released economic data.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a 1.5-trillion-dollar tax cut bill into law
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The U.S. Congress this week passed the tax bill along party line, with no Democrats voting for it.
At the signing ceremony, Trump called it "a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs," adding that "corporations are literally going wild."
"By cutting taxes and reforming the broken system
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The tax bill, the sweeping rewrite of U.S. tax law since 1986, would cut the corporate income tax rate to 21 percent from the current 35 percent and lower individual income rates.
Some companies said they would spend the savings from lower corporate taxes on higher wages and new construction.
"The tax cuts should help, especially if companies follow AT&T and Comcast's lead paying tax-cut related employee bonuses
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Investors were optimistic about this, as they bet that lower taxes would boost companies' earnings.
"All this as optimism piles upon optimism. Like the proposed tax plan or not
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On the economic front, U.S. personal income in November increased 54 billion U.S. dollars
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In November, disposable personal income increased 50.9 billion dollars, or 0.4 percent
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U.S. new orders for manufactured durable goods in November increased 3.1 billion dollars or 1.3 percent to 241.2 billion dollars, missing market projection of a 2-percent gain, the Commerce Department announced in another report.
U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the third quarter of 2017, according to the "third" estimate released by the Commerce Department on Thursday. In the second quarter
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"Third quarter GDP was close enough in this final revision for investors to move on to thinking about Q4 and 2018," said Low.
U.S. existing-home sales surged for the third straight month in November and reached their strongest pace in almost 11 years, according to the National Association of Realtors Wednesday.
U.S. total existing-home sales jumped 5.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.81 million in November from an upwardly revised 5.50 million in October.
U.S. privately-owned housing starts in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.297 million units, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
This is 3.3 percent above the revised October estimate of 1.256 million and 12.9 percent above the November 2016 rate of 1.149 million.
In corporate news, shares of Apple fell more than 1 percent on Tuesday
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by Alessandra Cardone
VENICE, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Italian and Chinese filmmakers here at the 73rd Venice Film Festival found comfortable space to exchange experiences and address the latest developments of China's growing movie market from within.
Directors, screenwriters, and other cinema industry's creative figures took indeed the stage at the third edition of China Film Forum held during Venice Days independent event earlier this week.
During and alongside debates, they addressed key issues such as the differences of writing for a Chinese or a European audience, the perspectives of Italy-China movie cooperation, and the crucial role creative professionals would play in shaping the future of Chinese cinema.
"A huge bet has been for me how to convey message and feelings of my story into a single film destined to both Chinese and Europe," Italian director Sergio Basso told Xinhua.
Basso directed documentary "The Long March", filmed in China and co-produced by Beijing TV Station (BTV) and A&A Media-Huahuang Pictures.
It was "not a history documentary, but a film about love and youth today in China ... About how young people in China struggle to reconnect with the recent past of their country, about the pulse of youth in China today," the official presentation read.
The long feature was to be officially released in autumn 2016, according to the producers.
"It has been a tricky task, since we have (in China and Europe) very different tradition of photography, visual references, sense of humor, and vision of the world," Basso explained.
Experienced in the Chin.