For first-quarter 2016, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $4.3m, down on $8.9m a year ago ...
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Global gold demand totaled 1,290 mt in the first quarter, up 21% from 1,070 mt a year earlier, as the biggest quarterly inflow into exchange-traded funds since 2009 offset a steep decline in jewelry demand, the World Gold Council said in a ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (to 31 March), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA - which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets - has ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2016 (to 26 March), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $101.1m, up 7.4% on $94.1m last quarter (a third ...
For first-quarter 2016, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has reported ...
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China Shenhua Energy Company Limited, the nation's top coal producer, has said its net profits plummeted 28.3 percent year on year to 4.74 billion yuan (734 million U.S. dollars) in the first quarter of 2016. Shenhua, a State-owned ...
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IATA’s latest quarterly survey of airline CFO and heads of cargo points to further year-on-year gains in profitability during Q1 2016, following a record year in 2015. However, expectations of further gains in profitability over the ...
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The shipments of smartphones worldwide in the first quarter marked the smallest year-on-year growth on record, and Chinese smartphone makers Oppo Electronics Corp and Vivo Mobile Communication Technology Co Ltd pushed out previous fourth ...
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Many of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) reported drops in profits in Q1, as building materials, electronics and tobacco firms reported large profit declines, Ministry of Finance data showed on Tuesday. The combined profits of ...
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Under Armour Inc. reported revenues in the first quarter increased 30 percent in the first quarter of 2016 to $1.05 billion compared with net revenues of $805 million in the prior year's period. Wall Street's average expectation was $1.04 ...
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China collected 2.98 trillion yuan ($458 billion) in taxes in the first quarter of 2016, up 9.8 percent year on year, data from the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) showed on Wednesday. Tax collected from tertiary industry rose 12 ...
Faurecia has agreed to sell its auto exterior business to Plastic Omnium for an enterprise value of €665m. The sale covers Faurecia's bumpers and front-end modules business, which had sales of €2bn in 2015. The business employs ...
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China's retail sales of consumer goods increased 10.3 percent in the first quarter year on year, official data showed on Friday. The first-quarter reading was 0.4 percentage points lower than that recorded in the whole of last year, ...
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The results from Dun & Bradstreet’s March Business Expectations Survey have highlighted a second consecutive decline in expectations, with businesses issuing subdued forecasts for the three-month period to June 2016, despite reporting ...
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China Seats & Parts Export Trend in 2011-2014 China seats & parts export trend had a tendency to increase from 2011 to 2014. Export value of 2014 was USD 23588 million, up 38.6% than 2011. China Seats & Parts Export Volume and Value ...
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