The oil complex settled sharply higher Monday as a Russian military intervention in the Ukraine heightened concerns over global oil supplies from Russia -- one of the top oil producers in the world. NYMEX April crude settled $2.33 higher ...
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Recently, the United Nations, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and other world organization said that will increase global growth expectations, this means the optimistic prospects of the global economic recovery. ...
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After decades of relying on imports for garment accessories, Vietnam has for the first time exported garment accessories in 2013, reports vov.vn. Vietnam exported garment accessories worth US$ 700 million last year, according to ...
Tags: Garment Accessories, Textile
The National Pork Producers Council applauded today's introduction of congressional legislation to grant President Obama Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) as a means to conclude a successful Pacific Rim trade deal. The Obama administration ...
A coalition of agricultural organizations led by the National Pork Producers Council is likely to oppose a final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement if it includes Japan but that country doesn’t agree to comprehensive ...
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A group of U.S. senators are urging U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to push for broad market access for U.S. pork in the countries that are part of the current Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ...
Oil demand growth in the US this year is likely to exceed that of China's for the first time since the 1990s, skewing overall global demand in favor of developed markets, investment bank Goldman Sachs said in a new report released Friday. ...
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At present, there are about 8000 global companies earn more than $1 billion a year, its global income summation is about $57 trillion, equivalent to 90% of global GDP. Half large multinational companies headquartered in the United States, ...
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Japan currently has the lowest global GDP per capita of energy usage. The average American household uses twice that of Japan and four times that in instrumentation. If Japanese companies hope to be competitive in the lower priced product ...
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Vietnam is one of the countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the agreement throws a challenge for Vietnam’s garment and textile sector which heavily depends on raw material imports for production of finished ...
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World GDP growth stabilized during the first quarter of 2013 at a moderate rate. In particular, in the advanced economies the situation improved with financial stress being further reduced and stock prices rising. The acceleration of ...
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Solvay announces that it plans to reinforce its position as a world leader in soda ash and improve the activity's long-term profitability by reducing its 2012 European cost base by €100 million per year as of 2016. Solvay will focus ...
The trade ministers of the 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries -- which include Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam -- met on the margins of the ...
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Industry consolidation to just three big DRAM suppliers and a reduction in capital expenditures among these manufacturers helped propel DRAM average selling prices (ASPs) up 13% year over year in January, which contributed to a 19.9% jump ...
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Europe's chemical volumes' growth in 2013 will be "sluggish" with only marginal gains on 2012, global bank HSBC said Monday. "Our forecasts are not materially different to what the industry is expecting: the European chemical ...