The global economy seems to be turning the corner and now heading upwards, with developing economies clearly in the front seat, as stated by Kim Marti Subirana of Celsa Group at the SteelOrbis 2013 Spring Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting ...
Tags: Raw material, Steel Prices, Steel
The Australian sharemarket has reached a fresh four-and-a-half-year high, buoyed by improved investor sentiment towards the Italian election outcome. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 67.5 points, or 1.34 per cent, ...
Tags: Buoyant, Australian sharemarket, 2008 levels
Parts supplier TRW Group has announced the 2012 financial report. The total sale of TRW was 16.444 billion dollars, an increase of 1.2% compared with 16.244 billion dollars in 2011; Sales was 4.032 billion dollars in the fourth quarter last ...
Tags: Sales, TRW, Parts supplier
Georgia-Pacific, the maker of Brawny paper towels, announces the launch of a national campaign and partnership with Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) to help support and raise awareness of the needs of injured service members and their families ...
Research reveals that almost half of European businesses plan to increase their budgets for CRM initiatives in 2013. A recent survey by Gartner found that only 5% of companies in Europe plan to decrease their CRM this year, down from 9% ...
Tags: CRM budgets, CRM software revenue, software
Groupon’s revenues have increased but so has the company’s net loss. Groupon's revenue for Q4 2012 was $638.3m an increase of 30% year-over-year, compared to $492.2m for the same period in 2011. The company's gross billings ...
Tags: Groupon, gross billings, net loss
The Australian dollar was sharply higher today after companies reported better-than-expected investment intentions for the coming year. The solid investment report triggered heavy buying of the Australian dollar as traders reduced bets on ...
Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. today announced its market outlook for Q2 of fiscal 2013 ended February 28, 2013. The Company expects to report a sequential improvement in its consolidated financial performance in the second quarter of ...
Tags: Schnitzer Steel, Steel, Steel Industries
Australian iron ore development company BC Iron has announced its financial results for the first six months ended December 31 of the financial year 2012-13, posting a net profit of A$7.74 million, up 42 percent year on year. In the first ...
Yusco will announce its latest list prices on Feb 26th and probably have a chance to hike around US$35~50/ton in order to reflect high production cost. Although the nickel price drops sharply in recent weeks, the market demand is still ...
Sims Metal Management reported that for the second half of 2012 (first half of fiscal 2013), revenues totaled $3.4 billion, a 25 percent decrease, primarily due to a reduction of intake and shipments in North America. Over the period, Sims ...
Tags: Metal Management, Metal, Metal Industry
For fourth-quarter 2012, Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has reported ...
Tags: Hittite, Microwave Corp, revenue
The sharemarket has opened almost 1.5 per cent weaker as former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's strong electoral showing sparked fears of eurozone instability. At 10.26am AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 75.1 ...
Tags: Stocks, Italian Elections, CMC Markets
The dollar rallied strongly today after the Reserve Bank of Australia signalled it might be done cutting interest rates. At 4.30pm AEDT, the Aussie was trading at $US1.0310, up from $US1.0238 late yesterday. It traded as high as $US1.0323 ...
Tags: Reserve Bank of Australia, currency, dollar
The sharemarket was on track for its biggest one-day rise in seven months today, as investors responded positively to yesterday's sharp fall in stock prices, which followed the release of US Federal Reserve minutes showing growing concern ...