Taipei,Oct.17,2012(CENS)--Global Insight recently revised its forecast of the global economic growth rate by 0.3 of a percentage point to 2.3%.Observers noted that the move may prompt the Directorate General of Budget,Accounting,and ...
A fall in production has hit half-year profits at UK-listed palm oil processor New Britain Palm Oil. CEO Nick Thompson said heavy rain made it harder to collect and transport fresh fruit bunches. The wet weather also meant the fruit ...
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Reuters reported that strike while the iron is hot, the old saying goes, and a legion of iron ore miners setting up in Canada's remote Labrador Trough want to do just that. But, for now, they have to wait. Iron ore, the main component of ...
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Taipei,Oct.5,2012(CENS)--Since the fourth quarter is traditionally the busy season for share listing,plus the levy of securities transaction gains tax next year,at least 17 enterprises are rushing to list their shares on the stock market in ...
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 ...
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Global thermal coal market undergoes pangs of oversupply and poor demand. 2012 has been game changer with US emerging as potent supplier domestic energy demand being met by shale gas making coal mining redundant. However the vacillating ...
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Swedish carmaker Volvo is planning to reduce 10% production from 57 units per hour to 52, at its main plant in Gothenburg in southwestern Sweden from 1 October 2012, in response to reduced demand for its cars in Europe. The carmaker is ...
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Closer trade ties between China and Chile following the signing of a landmark trade agreement are seeing a surge of exports to China. Mr Alvaro Jana Linetzky DG of international economic relations with the Chilean Foreign Ministry said ...
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IDG News Service-News of weak server sales,continuing turmoil at Hewlett-Packard and the ongoing U.S.political impasse over the so-called"fiscal cliff"have not given tech industry watchers much to cheer about this week. Major IT companies ...
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Gloria Material Technology Corporation (GMTC), the first specialty steel manufacturer in Taiwan announced that its third quarter sales revenues totaled NT$2.535 billion, falling by 10.73% from a quarter ago. In the third quarter, ...
ET reported that silver's use in industrial applications is expected to gain nearly 7% to 484 million ounces in 2013 and an additional 6% to a record 511.6 million ounces in 2014. GFMS suggests that the price of silver has room to climb ...
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Taipei, Oct. 31, 2012 (CENS)--After 10 consecutive months of blue, Taiwan's economic indicator showed a yellow-blue in September, with the composite scores gaining seven points from a month earlier to 22, only one point from green, ...
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Taipei, Oct. 25, 2012 (CENS)--The Taiwan Printed Circuit Association Show 2012 (TPCA Show 2012) opened yesterday for a three-day run at the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall, attracting over 315 manufacturers to exhibit ...
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Thanks to upturn in exports and investment, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics (DGBAS) revised upward on Nov. 23 its forecast of Taiwan’s economic growth this year to 1.13%, confirming that the growth rate ...
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Gloria Material Technology Corporation, the first specialty steel manufacturer in Taiwan, has announced that its third quarter sales revenues totaled TWD 2.535 billion, falling by 10.73% QoQ. In the third quarter of 2012, GMTC's gross ...