The European semiconductor distribution industry continues to deliver good news. According to DMASS (Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists) semiconductor distribution sales in Q2/CY14 grew by ...
Tags: European, Growth, Electronics
Palladium climbed to a 13-year high in the longest run of gains in more than a month in New York on concern supply will lag demand and add to shortages. Gold fell. Palladium, mostly used in catalytic converters in cars alongside platinum, ...
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Swedish-Danish cooperative Arla Foods had slashed 79 jobs in Russia, following the food import ban imposed by the country in response to the sanctions by the West. Of the 79 jobs, 30 were temporary positions. Arla Foods senior vice ...
Global Import Value Trend of Jewelry (HS: 71) from 2010 to 2012 The total import value of global jewelry increased year by year from 2010 to 2012, and the import value of 2012 amounted to 576.73 billion US dollars, with an increase of ...
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In view of the western sanctions against Russia, the President Putin signed a decree on 6th, will perform a ban for imports of western agricultural and food products for one-year. On 7th, the prime minister Medvedev announced specific and ...
Tags: Agricultural, Food, Economy
Russia has imposed ban on food imports from the EU, the US and some other western countries, in a response to sanctions imposed over Ukraine. Russia Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was quoted by BBC as saying that the ban is imposed on ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Under the background of severe sanctions on Russia, global economic prospects is not good. Sanctions will be in a negative impact on the investment of foreign companies in Russia and the overall growth of the world economy. Due to the ...
Tags: Economy
One plane of Malaysia airlines was missile hit on 17th, and crashed in Russia and Ukraine border. The incident led to regional political tension, global risk aversion is serious, U.S. stocks tumbled, but as safe havens of gold &the Japanese ...
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The price of palladium, hitting $865 an ounce on Friday, made a notable record. It hasn't, as Reuters notes, traded so high since February 2001. What's more, it also surged by highs it hit back in 2011 when it traded in the mid-$800s an ...
Tags: palladium, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Asia to Europe arbitrage window for methanol will remain shut in the third quarter of 2014 on expectations of higher export volumes from the Middle East and stronger Chinese demand that would soak up Asian supplies, sources said late ...
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Iran is loading eight LPG cargoes totaling 317,000 mt in May for export to Asia, the biggest monthly volume since resuming shipments in May 2013 following an eight-month halt on concerns over an EU ban on shipping insurance, shipping and ...
Iranian petrochemical traders currently sell all their products on a CFR basis in Asia instead of FOB to avoid payment issues, trade sources in Iran and Dubai said Tuesday. "We sell products on a CFR basis in countries like China so as to ...
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Nearly 3 million barrels of Abu Dhabi's Murban crude is expected to move into the Mediterranean in June, according to traders, as weaker demand in Asia and expectations of a bullish summer in the Mediterranean Urals market have attracted ...
Tags: Asian Demand, Murban crude
Russian metallurgical companies do not expect problems with debt refinancing because of the worsening geopolitical situation and the threat of the new sanctions against Russia, according to the results of a survey carried out by Russian ...
Tags: Steelmakers, Evraz
South Korea's imports of Iranian crude in April increased 8.9% year on year to 552,884 mt, or an average 135,088 b/d, from 507,821 mt a year ago, preliminary data released Thursday by the Korea Customs Service showed. Its April Iranian ...
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