NIKE, Inc. reported financial results for its fiscal 2014 third quarter ended February 28, 2014. Despite the negative impact of changes in foreign exchange rates, earnings per share for the quarter were up 4 percent due to higher revenues ...
Coal producers in Shanxi, China's biggest coal-producing province, incurred an overall loss of RMB 4.02 billion ($0.66 billion) in the January-February period of the current year, with half of the coal producers in the province recording ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Jiangxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Fangda Special Steel has issued its financial results for 2013, announcing an operating revenue of RMB 13.215 billion ($2.17 billion), down 1.05 percent year on year, while it saw a net profit of ...
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Easton-Bell Sports reported nets sales of $780.4 million in the fiscal year ended Dec. 28, 2013, down 5.7 percent from a year earlier. The owner of Riddell, Bell and Giro helmets and Easton hockey and baseball products, reported gross ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, football, softball
Kazakhstan's natural monopoly regulator AREM has approved raising the crude oil export shipment tariff for national oil pipeline operator KazTransOil by 20% from the current level to Tenge 5,817.20 ($31.57)/mt per 1,000 km from April 1. ...
Tags: Crude Oil, Tariff, natural monopoly
Gordmans Stores, Inc., an Omaha-based apparel and home décor retailer, announced results for its fourth quarter (thirteen weeks) and fiscal year (fifty-two weeks) ended February 1, 2014. Fourth Quarter Highlights -Net sales ...
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NYMEX May crude futures settled 14 cents higher at $99.60/barrel Monday with investors focusing on the suspension of vessel boardings in the Houston Ship Channel and its possible impact on oil movements in the US Gulf Coast region. May ...
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Frutarom Switzerland has launched DHA and EPA marine-sourced omega-3 ingredients, designed for use in a range of food and beverage, and dietary supplement products. The move marks Frutarom Switzerland Health BU's entry into the omega-3 ...
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Nike Inc. reported earnings rose 3.5 percent in the third quarter, to $685 million, or 76 cents a share. Revenues advanced 12.7 percent to $6.97 billion. Both earnings and revenues surpassed Wall Street targets. Nike Brand revenues grew ...
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The market has remained undecided as to where it wants to go next, with the last eleven sessions closing in a narrow range of just 166 points. The structure is still more or less the same in current crop futures, with specs and index funds ...
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Mozambique, a country in southeastern Africa, is likely to produce 110,000 tons of cotton in the current marketing year 2013-14, daily newspaper Noticias reported. Cotton production in Mozambique grew from 41,000 tons in 2009-10 ...
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In afternoon New York trade on Thursday May copper changed hands at $2.936 a pound, erasing all of yesterday's strong gains. Earlier in the day the red metal fell as low as $2.913, down more than 2%, after Federal Reserve Chair Janet ...
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A study led by the University of Leeds has shown that global warming of only 2°C will be detrimental to crops in temperate and tropical regions, with reduced yields from the 2030s onwards. Professor Andy Challinor, from the School of ...
Tags: Crop, Agriculture, Food
Turkish steel pipe producer Borusan Mannesmann has told SteelOrbis that the company's US oil country tubular goods (OCTG) investment in Houston, Texas remains on track within the projected schedule, with the threading facility already being ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
(Phys.org) —Photovoltaic spray paint could coat the windows and walls of the future if scientists are successful in developing low-cost, flexible solar cells based on organic polymers. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak ...
Tags: Organic Solar Cells, Heavy Hydrogen, Solar