Japan's leading electronics makers are falling into two groups. Some companies, including Hitachi and Panasonic, have recovered from the industry slump triggered by the global recession that started in 2008 and exacerbated by the 2011 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Sony
In the January-April period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 10.7078 trillion ($1.747 trillion), up 17.3 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau ...
Tags: Fixed Asset, mining sector
In April this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on May 13, with this growth rate 0.1 percentage point lower than that ...
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In March this year, India's industrial production decreased by 0.5 percent year on year, according to government data. Industrial production in the financial year 2013-14 ended March 31 decreased by 0.1 year on year. Production in India's ...
Tags: Basic Metal, industrial production
Reacting on the apparel exports data, for the month of April 2014-15, Mr. Virender Uppal, Chairman AEPC, remarked, “This is the first month of the 2014-15 and Apparel Exports have recorded the growth of 14.33% compared to the April ...
Tags: April Apparel, Apparel Exports
In March this year, the seasonally and working-day adjusted turnover in the German manufacturing industry decreased by 0.6 percent compared to February, according to the preliminary data reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office ...
Tags: Metal Manufacturing, metal product
China’s manufacturing contracted in April for the fourth straight month but the pace of decline was less severe, suggesting the downturn in the world’s No. 2 economy is bottoming out. HSBC’s purchasing managers’ ...
A majority of U.S. manufacturing executives expect their sales will grow a little more than 9 percent for the rest of 2014, according to the Institute of Supply Management’s semi-annual survey of purchasing and supply managers. Of ...
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The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 50.4 percent in April of the current year, up 0.1 percentage point compared to March, constituting the second consecutive month-on-month rise by 0.1 percentage ...
Tags: PMI, manufacturing sector
Talk about bringing back manufacturing to the US has been on the lips of many people for some time now. But, the buzz is contagious and has traveled overseas to European shores. In an effort to keep Europe competitive, discussions about ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
A growing economy, pent-up demand, competitive mortgage rates and affordable home prices will keep housing on an upward trajectory through 2015. However, several obstacles including tight consumer credit, shortages of lots and labor and ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
In the first quarter this year, the aggregate gross profits of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in China amounted to RMB 1.29424 trillion ($0.21 trillion), increasing by 10.1 percent year on year, according to data released by ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Taiwan's industrial production index in March this year increased by 3.05 percent as compared to March 2013 and was up 18.29 percent month on month, according to the country's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). Meanwhile, Taiwan's ...
Toyota Corolla is now exported from Mississippi to the World. With this move, a total of nine US-Assembled Toyota Models are now exported to 32 countries. At a ceremony this afternoon with team members, elected officials and community and ...
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In March of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 6.8322 trillion ($1.115 trillion), up 17.6 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ...
Tags: Fixed Asset, rural households