The "Strategy Analytics" said, in the first quarter of 2013, India replaced Japan as the world's third largest smartphone market, the shipments jumped 163%, far above the global average. The first and the second is also China and United ...
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Russia's bureau of statistics data shows, the Russian steel output is 29 million tons from 1-5 in 2013, down 3.4%. The steel output fell 0.6% year on year in May, year-on-year growth 4.4%. The rolled products production of the first ...
Tags: steel, Steel Production, Construction
On July 11, Hong Kong-listed Chinese stainless steel processor Da Ming International Holdings Limited stated that in the second quarter this year its sales of stainless steel amounted to 234,611 mt, up 30.7 percent year on year, while in ...
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As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in June of the current year the wholesale selling prices of industrial products in Germany were 0.7 percent higher compared to June 2012, following the 0.1 percent year-on-year ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil
According to data, Japan's exports of section steel products totaled 67,844 tons in May, increasing by 17.1% from a month ago. The country's export prices of section steel products averaged at US$727.5/ton FOB in May, down by 3.1% month on ...
Tags: steel, Construction
Turkey exported 64,523 tons of wire rods in May, decreasing by 12.3% from a month ago and slumping by 44.6% year on year, according to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). Also, the figures hit the lowest level since ...
Tags: Wire Rods, Construction
It's reported that India's steel giant Tata Steel announced its sales result for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2013/14 ended on June 30th. In the first quarter of the fiscal year 2013/14, the company's sales totaled 2.01 million ...
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It's reported that the Chinese steel giant Baosteel released its price policy for August. The company decided to remain its list prices for steel flat products including hot rolled, cold rolled and galvanized steel products unchanged for ...
It's reported that South African ferrochrome supplier Merafe Resources Company stated that they have reached with the European stainless steel mills ferrochrome contract price for the third quarter at 112.5 cents / lb., falling by 14.5 ...
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On July 4, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) released the domestic construction sector indicators (base year 2010 = 100 and calculated according to the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community, Rev. ...
Tags: Mineral, Construction, Turkish economy
According to the data released by the Export and Import Division of South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MOTIE), the country's trade balance indicated a $19.6 billion surplus in the first half of this year, posting a slight increase ...
Tags: Steel, Mineral, South Korea
China has taken delivery of around 88,000 mt of Iranian LPG in June after a break of four months, as the Islamic republic extends exports to North Asia in its attempts to circumvent sanctions aimed at preventing it from exporting oil ...
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The Taiwanese steel pipe makers have announced to remain list prices unchanged for July in order to reflect Chung Hung Steel's unchanged prices for hot rolled steel products. It's learned that Chung Hung Steel announced to leave its list ...
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It's reported that the Taiwanese rerolling mills including Quintain Steel and Yieh Hsing will release list prices for wire rods for July after China Steel Corp. (CSC) announced to remain its list prices for electric furnace (EF) Al-killed ...
Tags: taiwan, steel, rerolling mill, Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
It's reported that Standard & Poor's (S&P) has lowered Russian NLMK's long-term corporate credit rating to "BB+" from "BBB-". S&P explained that the downgrade was based on weak global steelmaking and a conservative estimate of the country ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel