Growing evidence of an emerging economic recovery in Europe pushed the Australian dollar to three-week lows today. Some market watchers say this might signal an important shift in direction for the currency. Traders say heavy-selling of ...
Tags: Dollar, Australian dollar
2013 is the beginning of a new price inflation cycle. As the first period of the cycle, the price inflation will be relatively wild. The expected CPI is 3 to 3.5 percent up year-on-year. Released by Bank of Communication Financial Research ...
Tags: Glass Futures, China Glass, glass market
The glass futures rises in five consecutive trading day and created a new high record after listing. Seeing from the macroscopic aspect, the microscopic economy turns warm. The market confidence comes back to life which gives a strong ...
National Windscreens, one of the largest independently owned auto glass repair and replacement specialists in the U.K., has announced its projection for major sales in 2013. "There's no denying that we are operating in a fiercely ...
Tags: Windscreens, National Windscreens, glass repair, glass
Yesterday the market showed a satisfactory trend, which allowed general coordination of supply and demand. By region, the South, Central and Southwest Chinese markets performed well; demand was ordinary in East China; and the performance ...
AUSTRALIAN stocks are set to rise today after the US avoided falling over its fiscal cliff -- at least for now -- and iron ore prices unexpectedly ended the year in positive territory. US tax and spending cuts due to start on January 1 ...
Tags: US, tax, spending cuts, market confidence
The High Court of Malaysia today rejected Australian miner Lynas Corp’s (ASX:LYC) application for an injunction against pressure groups that oppose the company’s rare earth plant (LAMP),informs The Malaysian Insider. ...
Tags: Asia, Australia, China, Lynas Corp, Lynas Corporation Ltd., Malaysia
Australian rare earths miner Lynas Corporation(ASX:LYC), has filed a defamation action against Malaysian protestors and opponents over their criticism of the company's rare earth plant (LAMP), which will process ores shipped from Western ...
Tags: Asia, Australia, China, Lynas Corp, Lynas Corporation Ltd., Malaysia
The Federal Reserve announced overnight that it will continue monthly purchase of USD 40 billion mortgage backed securities buy additional USD 45 billion long term Treasury bonds and keep low interest rate unchanged until at least mid 2015 ...
Tags: aluminum, LME aluminum, LME aluminum inventories, aluminum prices
According to LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, despite the rush orders during 2Q12 which kept LED chip and package makers’ utilization rates high, the 3Q12 outlook for LED backlight market turns murky due to the ...
Tags: LED Backlight
Eurofer said recently that the European steel demand will probably slide further in 2013 because of the bad performance of the industries which use the steel. In the recently months, the European steel market remained quiet with ...
Tags: steel, the European steel market, construction industries
(China Glass Network) According to latest statistics announced by National Development and Reform Committee, net deficiency of flat glass industry is 520 Million RMB in the first half year of 2012, while net profit of the industry is 2590 ...
Tags: market view, glass
China's lackluster manufacturing sector will continue to struggle in the second half of the year, a newly released government report said, threatening to deprive the world's biggest manufacturing hub of a growth driver. The sector will ...
Tags: market view, machine
PV Book-to-bill ratio of just 0.33 measured in second quarter of 2012,with SEMI seeing no near-term recovery. Heading south:the global PV equipment market The market for photovoltaics manufacturing equipment continued to decline in ...
Tags: Semiconductor, PV Equipment, Low
Leslie Koo,chairman of Taiwan Cement Co.(TCC),is optimistic about second-half operations as well as for China Synthetic Rubber Co.(CSRC),an affiliate,especially in the cement business,saying that cross-strait sales of cement will grow in ...
Tags: Taiwan Cement, Second-Half Operations, China Synthetic Rubber Co.(CSRC)