In first-quarter 2013, mobile phone shipments grew 12% year-on-year (YoY) to an estimated 405 million handsets, according to market analyst firm ABI Research’s Mobile Handset Markets database service. However, this was due to the ...
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The dramatic sell-off in resources stocks accelerated yesterday and the Australian dollar fell as investors focused on plunging gold and commodity prices and concerns about slowing growth in China. Goldminers again led the local ...
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Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar hears cautious but positive forecasts. Growth in global sales of lasers and laser systems this year will range from flat to only a modest improvement of a few percentage points, according to ...
Global installations of photovoltaic (PV) systems are set to rise again this year, but the industry will suffer a decline in overall revenues because of a slowing growth rate and decreasing system prices. That’s the latest ...
The China end-market dominated shipments of solar panels during the final quarter of 2012 with 33% of global end-market demand, according to NPD Solarbuzz. "Just two years ago, the China end-market was less than 10% of global solar ...
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The results of the quarterly Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) Survey on the Business Outlook (EO-118) indicate little change from the previous report—namely that the sector continues to grow, but at a ...
The Australian dollar surged and shares reversed early falls as China trade data showed the economic recovery of the world's second-largest economy is accelerating and exceeding market expectations. China's trade surplus rose sharply last ...
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Traditionally, the copper price is as good a guide as any to the progress of the mining sector. It’s a relationship that has worked in the past and did again this year as well, with copper adding 5% over 12 months while the general UK ...
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Facebook shares have hit a new low of $19.82 before closing at $20.04 after the social network reported slowing growth and admitted more than 83 million accounts may be fake. The shares have lost nearly half their value since May, when ...
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Ailing economic growth in China is beginning to take a toll on miners and suppliers in the United States. Dwindling exports to the Middle Kingdom across a swathe of US industries would appear to strongly substantiate reports that the ...
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Coal's share of the energy mix will continue to rise, with global consumption projected to reach 4.32 billion tons of oil equivalent (toe) by 2017 despite the fossil fuel's slowing growth rate, according to the International Energy Agency ...
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While hardware and components makers face economic hurdles, the picture for software is getting brighter, according to earnings reports from major vendors and mid-year market research polls. Vendors and analysts lay much of the blame for ...
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There were, despite continued economic uncertainty in many Western markets and concerns over slowing growth in the East, signs that M&A activity rebounded in the food sector this year. Data for the whole of 2012 has not yet been published ...
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Lenovo said its net profit for the fiscal second quarter increased by only 13 percent year-over-year, marking a shift from the high profit growth the company has previously seen. For the fiscal second quarter ending on Sept. 30, ...
Reuters reported that London copper rallied to its highest in six weeks as promising manufacturing data from top consumer China fuelled a cautious return in investors' appetite for the metal although worries over US fiscal woes kept a lid ...
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