Chinese industrial companies saw profit growth cool in June on the back of China’s economic slowdown, Bloomberg reported. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday said net income increased 6.3% from a year earlier to US$82 ...
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Total revenue for Taiwan-listed LED makers fell from NTD10.96bn in May to NTD10.6bn in June, as the LED market was affected by declining demand for backlight application and stocktaking, according to LEDinside (a subsidiary of industry ...
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According to the Turkey's Steel Exporters' Association (CIB), the slowdown in the global economy, the falling demand from export markets and the general falling prices of commodities in international trade had a negative effect on ...
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At Solar Taiwan 2013, the host, the Photonic Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), has invited solar firms such as SunEdison, Gintech, GCL-Poly, MEMC, and Motech to discuss opportunities in emerging solar markets and high ...
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Demand for LED backlighting rebounded in the first half of 2013, but firms expect demand to slow down after mid-June because China's energy-saving appliance procurement subsidy program is close to an end. Despite the possible demand drop ...
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According to the customs statistics provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), Turkey's slab imports amounted to 184,651 metric tons in March this year, increasing again after two consecutive months of month-on-month decrease, up ...
Turkey's billet imports in the first quarter of this year constituted the highest quarterly volume since the second quarter of 2009. Increasing by 23.2 percent compared to the previous quarter and up 33.2 percent compared to the same ...
Output value in the LED upstream ingot segment is expected to reach US$324 million in 2015, according to market research institute Displaybank. The downstream segments of the LED supply chain have been in oversupply, causing market ...
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Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced its production results for the first quarter of the current year. In the given quarter, TMK shipped 1.058 million mt of pipes to customers, ...
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Falling demand in the China market drove global solar demand down to 6.2GW in the first quarter of 2013, said Solarbuzz. The figure represents an on-quarter decrease of 23%. Although the China market will account for 20% of global solar ...
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Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corp., the country's sole importer of fuel oil, has made a rare export offer of the product due to falling demand from power stations as well as higher domestic output, company sources said Friday. ...
To prevent an oversupply of rare earth materials, China's 2013 rare earth mining target is only half that of 2012, at 46,900 tons. China's export quota has been around 30,000 tons since 2010 and the actual export volume has been lower due ...
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The time spread for gasoil swaps in Singapore narrowed 15 cents/barrel day on day to a seven-week low of plus 3 cents/b for April/May Wednesday, because of low regional gasoil demand and concerns over increased exports from China and India, ...
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The prospects for Australia's biggest commodities export continue to worsen in the eyes of forecasters, with the federal government's forecaster wiping $66 billion from expected iron ore export revenue out to 2016-17 and leading global ...
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South Korean firm Samsung is to buy a three per cent stake in its Japanese rival Sharp for 10.4bn yen (£73m). Sharp has been struggling to restructure its operations as it continues to make losses; the firm has forecast its biggest ...