The sharemarket has closed higher, led by investors picking up cheaper mining stocks after heavy selling in recent days. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 15.1 points, or 0.29 per cent, at 5180.8. The broader All ...
Australian businesses will keep cutting their spending this year, with expectations for capital investment, employment and new credit set to fall further. The deteriorating outlook for the September quarter suggests that despite pockets ...
The profitability of turning corn crops into ethanol in Europe surged to seven-month highs this week following a jump in the spot price of the biofuel, according to data compiled by Platts. The corn-to-ethanol crush margin, an indication ...
Tags: Crush Margin, Chemicals
Fewer executives are planning to make a capital investment in their business during the coming months, with investment expectations among Australian businesses fading in the lead-up to the middle of the year. Amid a broad drop-off in ...
Results of the Italian woodworking machinery producer Biesseslipped further into the negative territory and turnover dipped 1.4% to €383.1m in 2012. Adjusted for extraordinary items EBIT was largely stable at €7m at the pre-vious ...
Results of the Italian woodworking machinery producer Biesseslipped further into the negative territory and turnover dipped 1.4% to €383.1m in 2012. Adjusted for extraordinary items EBIT was largely stable at €7m at the pre-vious ...
Tags: Minor Fall, Sales, Net Loss
Australian businesses don’t plan to hire new staff in the coming months, and are putting off investments, as the cost of doing business takes its toll. On the back of recent high-profile job cuts and off-shoring announcements by a ...
The US Gulf Coast-Asia arbitrage for isomer-grade mixed xylenes on paper does not appear to be re-opening any time soon, as arbitrage economics continued narrowing, plunging to a five-month low Tuesday, Platts data showed. "The US-Asia ...
Tags: Asia arbitrage, Chemicals, USGC
US toluene disproportionation margins were estimated at minus $15.09/mt Friday, based on Platts data, putting them in negative territory for the first time since November 15, when they were estimated at minus 55 cents/mt. Estimated TDP ...
Australian businesses have pulled back their profit expectations for the coming months as they anticipate modest sales activity, difficult trading conditions and subdued consumer activity. After showing signs of optimism leading into the ...
Term contract discussions between Asian purified terephthalic acid producers and end-users are at a stalemate over a failure to agree on a new pricing formula, industry sources said Friday. The two sides typically finalize their term ...
Tags: PX price, Asia, PTA market
Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year,an analyst said today. Brian White,of Topeka Capital Markets,said that his checks of Asian computer manufacturers--the relatively ...
Tags: Windows 8 PC, sales weak
A hot ticket at the annual Vision show is the AIA Networking Reception which includes presentations on machine vision market performance, with a focus on North America, a multinational panel discussion, and an opportunity to eat, drink and ...
Tags: AIAAIA, networking, machine vision market performance, network
In the wake of his Belize neighbor's unsolved murder, John McAfee's lurch through the news damaged the reputation of his namesake, the security company McAfee Inc., a brand expert said Thursday. McAfee, 67, founded the firm in 1987 as ...
Tags: McAfee Inc, namesake, Intel, acquired
China's manufacturing activity grew in November for the first time in 13 months, according to the latest industry data. The China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose to a high of 50.4 in November, the latest ...
Tags: manufacturing activity, industry, data, China