The recent landmark currency agreement between Australia and China is good news for Australian manufacturers. Under the agreement, exporters will be able to directly trade the Australian dollar with the yuan and vice versa. The deal, ...
Tags: Currency Deal, Boost Trade
Prices for 2012 and 2013 US ethanol renewable credits, also known as RINs, on Monday reached their highest levels in four weeks on the heels of weak biofuels production data released by the US Environmental Protection Agency Friday, sources ...
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Chinese and Kazakh state companies have signed an agreement to expand the existing China-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline, China National Petroleum Corp said Monday on its website. The agreement was signed Saturday during talks held between ...
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Tata Consultancy Services is to acquire French IT services company Alti in a bid to increase its presence in the European market. India's largest outsourcer said in a filing Tuesday to the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has signed ...
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Spot gas prices on the UK's NBP trading hub began the new week at the lowest levels in seven-days as demand eased back towards seasonal norms with warmer temperatures moving across the country. The LNG outlook is looking healthier, too, ...
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Japan and India will discuss the demand and supply of LNG, its pricing mechanism as well as latest trends among consumers' procurements of LNG at low prices over Tuesday-Wednesday in Tokyo, a Japanese government source said Monday. The ...
Thermal and semi-soft coking coal shipments from eastern Australia's Newcastle port fell 15.8% week on week to 2.54 million mt for the week ended April 7, and were loaded on to 28 ships, said Newcastle Port Corp in its latest weekly update ...
US polymer-grade propylene contracts for April were reportedly starting to settle down 10 cents at 63 cents/lb delivered, one major buyer and two trader sources said Monday. Negotiations were not finalized and another major buyer reported ...
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, Monday cut the ex-works price of linear low density polyethylene in East China by Yuan 200 to Yuan 10,600/mt, a company source said. On an import parity basis, the LLDPE price is equivalent ...
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European naphtha prices have come under pressure from run cuts in the polyolefin chain as well as falling crude prices, with ICE Brent futures sinking to an eight-month low Friday, sources said. CIF NWE naphtha was assessed at $846.50/mt ...
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Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between host computers like Macs and peripherals at a rate of 20Gbps. This is the first big speed boost for the interconnect, which has ...
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Molecular Response has introduced TargetX platform for the rapid discovery and validation of new oncology targets. The integrated platform, which features 144,000 living tumor specimens, genomic databases and patient derived tumor models, ...
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Contract development and manufacturing company Vetter has announced that the company’s new filling line at its Ravensburg Vetter South facility has been validated completely and ready for cGMP filling. The line, which currently ...
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Plastic packaging manufacturer Sealed Air has announced plans to phase down production at its Rotorua plant in New Zealand and close it by mid-2014. The company proposes to consolidate the plant's manufacturing operations into its ...
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Argentina's National Administration of Drugs, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT) has cleared Genzyme's once-daily, oral Aubagio 14mg to treat relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). The approval of Aubagio was based on safety and ...