In August, China's finished steel output increased slightly, while domestic finished steel prices continued to soften in the given month due to slower economic growth, with the finished steel price decreases contributing to significant ...
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In August this year, China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 1.2 percent year on year and was down 0.2 percent month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on September 11. Meanwhile, in ...
Tags: PPI, capital goods, raw material
In August this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 48.4 percent, down by 0.2 percentage points as compared to July, still below the 50 percent threshold, as announced by the China Steel Logistics ...
Tags: Steel Sector, Mineral
As of August 25, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 109.34 million mt, up 0.54 million mt or 0.5 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on August 26. As of the same date, the Xinhua-China ...
Tags: Iron Ore Inventory, Chinese Ports, Energy
In the January-July period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 480.76 million mt, up 2.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on August 25. The growth rate ...
Tags: China's Crude Steel, Output, Metallurgy
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in July this year the wholesale selling prices of industrial products in Germany were down 0.7 percent compared to July 2013, following the 0.8 percent year-on-year price ...
Tags: Metal Prices, industrial products
As of August 18, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 108.8 million mt, down 0.47 million mt or 0.43 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on August 11, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on August ...
Tags: Chinese Ports, Down, Mineral
TOKYO (Kyodo) –The government on Tuesday cut its forecast for Japan’s economic growth in fiscal 2014 to 1.2 percent from 1.4 percent in real terms amid lingering fears that the April 1 consumption tax hike, the first in 17 ...
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The Japanese economy shrank an annualized real 6.8 percent in the April to June quarter, falling at its fastest pace since the March 2011 disaster, apparently due to the consumption tax hike on April 1, the government said Wednesday. The ...
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Indian data released on Tuesday showed that consumer price inflation rose in July and in its previous month, factory output grew at a slower pace. This could dampen hopes of an early economic turnaround and increase the pressure on ...
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in June this year Turkish producers' foreign sales price index (PPI)* in general increased by 0.53 percent from May and was up 12.17 percent year on year, ...
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As of August 11, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 109.27 million mt, down 1.72 million mt or 1.54 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on August 4 , as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on August ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese Ports, Mineral
In the January-June period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 411.91 million mt, up three percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on July 28. The growth rate ...
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As of July 28, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 111.87 million mt, down 2.4 million mt or 2.1 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on July 21, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on July 29. ...
Tags: Iron Ore Inventory, Down, Xinhua-China
As of July 14, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 113.72 million mt, down 1.05 million mt or 0.91 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on July 7, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on July 15. ...
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