Australia’s large car class continued its downward spiral in 2013 as the segment’s traditional heavyweights slumped to record lows. Large car sales slipped 14.7 per cent as a whole in 2013, and a larger 17.2 per cent in the ...
Tags: Large Car, Holden Commodore, Ford Falcon
2013 Australian New Car Sales Figures in Total 1 Toyota 214,630 2 Holden 112,059 3 Mazda 103,144 4 Hyundai 97,006 5 Ford 87,236 6 Nissan 76,733 7 Mitsubishi 71,528 8 Volkswagen 54,892 9 Subaru 40,200 10 Honda 39,258 11 Kia 29,778 12 ...
Tags: New Car Sales, Toyota, Mazda
Australia-based miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that it has resumed surface mining operations following the fatal incident earlier this week at its Christmas Creek iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The ...
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Last year proved another solid one for the ever-expanding SUV category, with 333,511 units sold across Australia for a nine per cent increase on 2012. The top four manufacturers mirrored 2012′s results with Toyota (56,139) finishing ...
Tags: SUV, Toyota, Mazda Cx-5
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in December last year the producer price index (PPI) for Turkish industry in general rose by 1.11 percent over November and was up 6.97 percent year on year, ...
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Australian new car sales are again tipped to reach record levels this year, though the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) is predicting only modest growth over 2013′s benchmark. FCAI CEO Tony Weber expects 1.145 million ...
Tags: passenger cars, SUVs, commercial vehicles
The six-year-old Mazda 2 has defied its age to claim Australia’s light car class crown in 2013. Rather than being a big winner last year, the Mazda 2’s segment win was a matter of being the smaller of two losers. Sales of the ...
Baker Hughes reported that for the week ending January 3, the US rig count decreased by six to 1,751, following 11-rig decrease the previous week. Additionally, the rig count is still down by 11 from 1,762 rigs during the same week a year ...
Sports car sales increased by 3900 units over 2012, largely on the back of the hugely successful Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ that notched up 6706 and 1411 sales respectively in their first full year on-sale. They helped mark 18 per cent ...
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Rocksource ASA ("Company" & "Rocksource") hereby announces that the Company has entered into a farm-out option deal with Atlantic Petroleum Norge AS ("Atlantic Petroleum") related to the PL 528 licence in the Norwegian Sea. The PL 528 ...
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Trends continued in the small car class in 2013, with almost a quarter of all new vehicle sales in Australia going to that segment, and its station maintained as the top-selling segment for the year with a 266,413 tally rising by 5.6 per ...
Tags: Small Car, Toyota, Corolla, Mercedes-Benz, B-Class
In the January-November period of last year, Turkey's finished steel output increased 6.5 percent year on year to 33.30 million metric tons, according to the report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In ...
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The US Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced Thursday that construction spending during November 2013 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $934.4 billion, 1.0 percent (±1.6 percent) above the revised ...
Tags: construction
Ukrainian iron ore and agglomerate producer Uzhniy GOK (UGOK) has announced that in December last year its iron ore concentrate production increased by 12.92 percent year on year to 996,000 mt. Meanwhile, its output of agglomerate in the ...
Tags: iron ore, metallurgy
In the week from December 30 to January 5, on the Orbis Steel Index the Turkish scrap index moved upwards, while the US (East Coast) HMS I/II scrap export index followed a stable trend. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index maintained ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy