The U. S. Department of Defense has awarded a $20 million contract to Abbott Laboratories to improve traumatic brain injury testing for military personnel, according to a Pentagon report. The report details that the $19.5 million ...
Tags: Abbott Labs, Brain, Health
Brazil steelmaker Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) has confirmed it is interested in acquiring US-based Gallatin Steel, according to a CSN executive. "We've tried to enter in the Severstal deal and we didn't succeed. We're looking at ...
Tags: CSN, Metallurgy, Mineral
Prices in China's domestic thermal coal market slumped dramatically in Monday's Asian trading session as the effect of Shenhua's cut to its thermal coal prices late last week and depressed buying interest among Chinese power plants took a ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Coal Prices, coal
Northwest European spot styrene values rallied $45/mt or 3% Wednesday morning in reaction to the fire that broke out at Ellba's styrene monomer/propylene oxide plant at Moerdijk, the Netherlands. Styrene end-users and consumers stepped ...
Tags: spot styrene, specific material
Aeropostale, Inc., a mall-based specialty retailer of casual apparel for young women and men, announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with respect to its previously announced strategic partnership and $150 million senior ...
Tags: Aeropostale, casual apparel
Dubai International Capital (DIC) has signed a $1.7bn (£1bn) agreement for the sale of Germany-based packaging group Mauser to private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) Mauser, global producer of rigid industrial packaging ...
FeraDyne Outdoors, LLC, the manufacturer of archery and bow hunting products and accessories, has been acquired by Snow Phipps Group, LLC, a New York-based private-equity firm. FeraDyne designs, manufactures and markets category-leading ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
The World Bank has called on Bangladesh to raise domestic natural gas prices after five years without an increase. "The administered price of domestically produced natural gas is fixed at a level considerably below that of the ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Domestic Prices
Freight rates for grain runs from South America to the Far East declined on Friday amid low Chinese soybeans demand, oversupply of tonnage and generally bearish sentiment in the Atlantic market. Grain runs basis 60,000 mt on the ...
Tags: grain, soybeans, Chinese demand
It's 3am on the first day of 2014. Shanghai's Hengshan Road, an area popular for restaurants and nightclubs, is lit up with what seems like hundreds of bright green taxi lights, inviting the rowdy New Year's crowd to hop in. But the drivers ...
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The money spent by advertisers on the desktop will decline this year as people continue to reach for their smartphones to search for information, according to new data from eMarketer. In the U.S., desktop search spending will drop by ...
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The winning bid in the monthly auction held Tuesday for Japanese H2 grade ferrous scrap for export through Tokyo Bay was Yen 30,910/mt ($299.50/mt) FAS or free alongside ship, the organizer of the tender said. The bid was Yen 2,100/mt ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, electric steel, Nippon Steel
The UK government is set to offer GBP13.3m in funding for the country’s automotive industry under the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI). The AMSCI funding is worth GBP45.5m, of which GBP13.3m will be offered by ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, Auto Parts
Bearish sentiment blanketed the Indonesian thermal coal market Wednesday amid reports of price discounting by major Chinese coal producers to their domestic customers, said traders. A medium-sized Indonesian coal producer said he expected ...
Tags: Thermal Coal Market, Deal-Making
The price of glass is expected to surge this year amid growing demand, an industry leader said. Abdulaziz Bin Yagub Al Serkal, General Manager of Dubai Investments ( DI ) PJSC, anticipated an increase in the cost of glass in the midst of ...
Tags: Strong Demand, Glass