O-Xylene prices surged up in Korea in the week ending December 22. Overall, market sentiment and downstream demand improved. Prices of upstream and downstream products also surged up. In the initial days of last week, prices were ...
M-Xylene prices have been assessed in the range of US$ 1195-1290/ton (FOB Korea) in December 2012 in Korea against US$ 1160-1170/ton FOB Korea in December 2011. Prices showed an upward trend in the first quarter of 2012 and went ...
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Toluene market showed mixed trend in Asia whereas it surged up in Europe and went down in US in the week ending December 22. Toluene prices were stable in Korea due to sluggish downstream demand in the region. In the initial days of the ...
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In Korea,benzene prices increased in the week ending November 24,due to robust support from the downstream market.In the early days of the week,prices were at US$1315/ton lower by US$45/ton,as compared to the same period of its previous ...
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Merafe Resources,South Africa,the partner with Xstrata in Xstrata-Merafe Chrome Venture,announced on December 19 that the benchmark price for the South African charge chrome shipped to Europe during the Q1(January-March)of 2013 was settled ...
Trade Arabia News Service reported that exports from the GCC countries to China rose to USD 7.1 billion in October from a yearly low of USD 4.9 billion in August, marking a 45.6% increase in just Q1. Growth expectations in the Chinese ...
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The Royal Institute of British architects(RIBA)has today released the results of its Future Trends Survey results for May 2012. The upward trend for architect's workloads,which started at the beginning of the year,continues to grow.The ...
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It is reported that coal and iron ore shipments are leading an 8% and a half percent increase in tonnage through the St Lawrence Seaway’s Montreal to Lake Ontario section this year over last. According to figures from the St. ...
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SAP has reported third-quarter sales of €83m for its high-performance analytics appliance, HANA. Total revenue of €3.95bn was up 16% on the same quarter last year. The company said in a statement that HANA revenue is on track to ...
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Samsung's tablet sales have grown by 325% in one year, according to new figures released today. Analyst firm IDC reported the numbers in its worldwide quarterly tablet tracker report, which showed 5.1 million shipments in the third ...
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Benzene market was stable in Asia,whereas it showed upward trend in Europe and US in the week ending December 15. In Korea,Benzene prices remained steady due to dull buying sentiment in the downstream market.In the early days of the ...
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The upward trend in turnover and results seen at Kingfisher since the beginning of 2011 stalled in the first quarter of the 2012/2013 financial year. In the period February to April, revenues showed year-on-year decline of 3.6% to ...
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Tech stocks have been climbing recently as key vendors such as Cisco and Lenovo report positive quarterly earnings and the U.S. economy offers glimpses of good news. So far this year, shares in IT companies rose steadily until April and ...
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Cyber espionage is?nothing new.So a report from the Defense Security Service(DSS)about efforts in foreign countries to steal U.S.technology,intellectual property,trade secrets and proprietary information might sound like just more of the ...
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According to a source in China, BHP Billiton indicated a rollover in the prices for its January shipments to China of manganese ores, keeping the prices unchanged since October 2012, despite some forecasts of early November that the prices ...
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