The sharemarket has closed slightly weaker as investors sold off defensive and high-yielding financial stocks after a couple of days of gains. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 8.8 points, or 0.18 per cent, at ...
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The sharemarket fell slightly yesterday as traders took profits in financial stocks and other defensives, while continuing to buy miners after China's benign March inflation data sparked an upturn in commodity prices. The benchmark ...
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In Q4 2012, activity in the Eurozone contracted by 0.6% (-0.1% in the previous quarter). The decrease in exports put a drag on GDP growth while domestic demand remained on a negative trend. However, in the first quarter of 2013, the ...
The Australian dollar surged against the US dollar to its highest level in 2 1/2 months on the back of data that showed solid growth in exports to China, the nation's largest trading partner, over the past year. Australian exports to ...
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The multinational has agreed to sell the Van der Windt Group, which has operations in Netherlands, Belgium, England and Ireland, to Dutch distribution business the Paardekooper Group for €68.5m. In North American, meanwhile, ...
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Truck Industry Council (TIC) statistics show that the truck market continues the recent trend of growth compared to the same period in the previous year. The March 2013 truck sales of 2,564 units were the best post-GFC for any March, with a ...
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ODVA has launched an "initiative for process automation" in cooperation with major suppliers to the process industry, including Cisco Systems, Endress+Hauser, Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric to further accelerate adoption of ...
The revolutionary and low-cost ($4.99 apiece) Stop Drop G-force sensor device informs users if the package has exceeded its permissible G force rating and records the time and date this occurred. It: Detects if and when fragile or ...
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The relaunch in March was timed to coincide with St Patrick?s Day and marked the culmination of a nine-month project for Bulletproof, which was appointed to the project in June 2012. The new design responds to a brief, Bulletproof said, ...
The jobs will go over the next two years in a plan that will see BCM, the contract manufacturing arm of Alliance Boots, pull out of what it called "unprofitable areas of third-party manufacturing" and focus on Boots' own skincare and beauty ...
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Net sales were at €11.16bn, which is a 4.3% rise on 2011. The company's Packaging Solutions businesses achieved net sales of €9.87bn for the year, 4.2%higher than in 2011. Tetra Pak added that sales from the Processing ...
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Cameroon’s Cotton Development Company (SODECOTON) is expecting the country’s cotton production to rise to about 235,000 tons, about 30 percent more than 180,000 tons of cotton produced last season. More than 200,000 tons ...
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Keith R. Beck, David Hinks, Nathan H. Weisner, and Anne Crawford are being honored by AATCC as the recipients of the J. William Weaver Paper of the Year Award for "Liquid Chromatographic and Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Dyes for Forensic ...
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Consolidated revenue for H1 2012/13 amounted to DKK 2,036 million which, as expected, is 3% lower compared to last financial year. The Group’s gross margin improved by 1.4 percentage points. The operating profit amounted to DKK 160 ...
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There are more IT managers working today than two years ago, but their unemployment rate is rising as well. It's a paradox of government data, but there are theories for the apparent discrepancy. The government reported that the ...
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