The slide in LPG prices over the past four days on abundant supply and an Asian demand pause has sent physical values to six-week lows and flipped the paper market to the steepest contango structure since early July 2012, market sources ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Chinese exporters will continue to face increasing trade frictions in the second half of 2013 and in 2014 amid escalating trade protectionism moves and an uncertain economic recovery, said a report released on Monday by ...
Tags: trade frictions, economic recovery
Northwest European butane prices remain too high to attract petrochemical buying despite their recent slide, sources said Thursday. "At this stage we can't afford these butane levels," said a trader. Delivered prices of butane coasters, ...
Apple unveiled its long-rumored “budget” iPhone on Tuesday, but it’s not as cheap as some had expected. The lower-cost iPhone is actually quite expensive, at least in China, a vital market where Apple has been struggling ...
Xiaomi paraded its new international figurehead on stage at a press conference late last week in Beijing, signaling to the world that the company is preparing to go global. Hugo Barra, the former Google executive Xiaomi poached last ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Homegrown Strategy
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.6 percent year on year in August, down from 2.7 percent in July, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. The country's consumer inflation has stayed ...
Tags: Inflation
This blog post was written by?Fred Clements, executive director of the?National Bicycle Dealers Association. Clements' previous blogs can be read on. Bicycle stores find themselves in a hyper-competitive marketplace these days, with ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, Bicycle stores
The Cato Corporation reported sales for the four weeks ended August 31, 2013 of $59.2 million, a 5% decrease over sales of $62.1 million for the four week period ended August 25, 2012. Same-store sales in August were down 2% to the prior ...
Tags: Apparel Retailer
SimpleFLOORS adds carpet to its product line, which previously featured only premium-grade wood floor collections. The new product addition is the result of a collaborative partnership with commercial carpet distributor Lexmark Carpet ...
Tags: Carpets, Etailer SimpleFLOORS
Up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has hired Hugo Barra, former Google vice president for Android product management, to lead its expansion worldwide. The hiring of Barra is a high-profile move for Xiaomi, a company that only ...
Tags: Computer Products, smartphone, Xiaomi
Argentina's petrochemicals industry is unlikely to expand until more natural gas and related feedstock supplies become available when the potential of the country's shale gas plays is turned into production in a decade or so, an analyst ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Foreign Buyers Association of the Philippines (FOBAP) is seeking financial help from the Government to fund three projects aimed at revival of the domestic garment industry. According to FOBAP President Robert M. Young, through ...
Tags: Garment Sector, Apparel
Apparel traders from Peru’s Gamarra emporium have announced a business strike and will shut down trading on September 5, 2013, as a protest against the facilities provided by the Government on imports of Chinese clothing. ...
Tags: Gamarra Traders, Chinese Imports
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It is reported that Pakistan now faces with serious danger to public safety for its infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and buildings due to the reason that its local steel market is fully supplied with poor quality substandard steel ...
Tags: Substanard Steel Rebars