Iron ore prices may be up for another dive as Chinese steel mills take a breather after the summer production peak, analysts say. The benchmark iron ore price plunged to a fresh five-year low to $US84.30 a tonne on Thursday night, and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
While this decline was spread across all three market sectors — light metal packaging, steel drums and similar containers, and other containers (of a capacity exceeding 300 litres — it was most substantial in the light metal ...
Tags: Metal Packaging, Falling Demand
Corn conditions moved slightly higher while soybean conditions dipped in the last week, the latter likely because of crop damage inflicted by warmer-than-normal temperatures in the last week. Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report shows ...
Tags: Corn, Soybeans, Agriculture
Dollar General reaffirmed its commitment to acquisition of Family Dollar, confident that it can quickly and effectively address any potential antitrust issues and reiterated that its existing proposal provides superior valuation to Family ...
Tags: Dollar General, Family Dollar, Apparel
The Board of Directors of NYSE-listed Family Dollar Stores, Inc. has recommended support of merger agreement with Dollar Tree, while unanimously rejecting the non-binding proposal made by Dollar General Corporation citing antitrust ...
Tags: Family Dollar Stores, Dollar Tree, Apparel
The National Retail Federation (NRF) has lowered its retail sales forecast for 2014 because of slow growth recorded during the first half of the year, but said sales are expected to grow significantly faster over the next five months. NRF ...
Tags: NRF, Growth, Construction
The week's starting out a dry one -- and likely will end on that note, too -- though while some areas may see mounting concerns on this account, lower-than-normal temperatures will likely prevent the extended rain-free streak from ...
Tags: Corn Belt, Weather Starter, Food
Chinese homebuyers have driven housing prices and developers’ stocks skywards in the past decade but that has been clearly over for more than a year. Official economic data released on Wednesday showed the slowdown in the sector ...
Tags: Red-Hot Property, Homebuyers
The growing lighting end-market in 2014 is now projected to account for 35% of all packaged light-emitting diode (LED) dollars, according to a Research Note from Jamie Fox, principal analyst at market research firm IHS Inc. For the first ...
Tags: LED market, lighting end-market, LED
In recent years, the optoelectronic component market has been dominated by a number of applications, namely LEDs, backlighting and the emergence of solid state lighting. In the optocoupler and photo-relay markets, the focus has been on the ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, LED lighting
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria, has launched the global “Safe Rates and a Safe Industry – We’re In, Are you?” campaign for Australian truck drivers in the ...
Germany Plastic Sanitary Ware (HS: 3922) Import Trend Analysis from 2010 to 2013 Germany Plastic Sanitary Ware Import Value Trend from 2010 to 2012 The total import value of Germany plastic sanitary ware from 2010 to 2012 showed an ...
Note: 8705 - Specl purp motor vehicles (fire fight veh, crane lorry), other Than Those Principally Designed for the Transport of Persons. China Export Enterprises Distribution of Special Purpose Motor Vehicles between Jan. - Aug. of ...
Tags: China, Export, Motor Vehicles
France Plastic Sanitary Ware (HS: 3922) Import Trend Analysis from 2010 to 2013 France Plastic Sanitary Ware Import Value Trend from 2010 to 2012 The total import value of France plastic sanitary ware from 2010 to 2012 showed an ...
Note: HS code 8702: Motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, including the driver, hereinafter referred to as "motor vehicles of more than ten passengers" Distribution from Jan. to August in 2013 Regions ...
Tags: China, Motor Vehicles, Export, Passengers