Coal's share of the US generation market will rise to 39% in 2013 from last year's 37.6% and reach 39.6% in 2014, the Energy Information Administration said Tuesday in its January Short-Term Energy Outlook. EIA said coal's rising ...
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Xinhua reported that China's Purchasing Managers'Index for manufacturing sector remained at 50.6%in December. China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said that this is the third consecutive month that the PMI figure has stayed above ...
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Thai paraxylene producer PTT Aromatics and Refining has concluded its 2013 term supply contracts at a premium of around $14/mt, up from last year's $9/mt, a company source said Wednesday. The producer settles its annual supply contracts ...
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South Korea's oil refiners are likely to face tougher challenges in coming years as President-elect Park Geun-Hye vows consumer-focused policies and tighter business regulations under her economic democratization platform. Park, from ...
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Pakistan ginners are concerned over the recent dip in cotton prices, mainly due to the ongoing festival season holidays, says Mr. Mahesh Kumar, Chairman of Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA). In a conversation with fibre2fashion, ...
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According to the latest'Resources and Energy Quarterly'report from Australia's Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics,World steel consumption will jump around 4%to 1.55 billion tonnes in 2013. Usage in China is also forecast to increase ...
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In lunchtime trade on Friday Molycorp was changing hands for $19.93, down $1.14 or 5.4%, on bad news about global rare earth demand and as investors continue to digest the company's results out last week. On Friday customs data from China ...
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The USA's largest rare earth producer Molycorp (NYSE:MCP) is mounting a credible challenge to Chinese rare earth dominance by dramatically scaling up output and potentially increasing its global market share to 30% from 4% at present. ...
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Xinhua reported that Chinese authorities vowed Sunday to focus on quality and efficiency of economic growth in 2013, demonstrating their determination to ensure sustainable and healthy economic development after the previous pursuit of ...
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May 22,-May 2012, by MCDOWELL's luggage for meadows planning "has bags design innovation fund meadows" official start, the fund aims to encourage and promote domestic bags &luggage enterprise and bags from personnel of innovation ...
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According to a Barclays Capital survey of producers,consumers,traders and investors,a total of 75%of players in the Chinese base metals market believe that 1H13 will see better economic conditions than the second half of 2012.Iin a similar ...
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ITC Limited, an India-based public conglomerate, has commenced the construction work on a milk processing plant in Munger, Bihar. The company is investing around INR1.5bn ($27.33m) for the construction of the plant, which will be ...
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Fine wool producers of Australia can expect better prices, as China and Russia boom, according to a report released by Rabobank. In spite of a recovery experienced during September, fine wool prices continue to prevail at ...
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According to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association,steel product orders,including specialty steels,booked by domestic steel consuming sectors in Japan in October this year amounted to 7.26 million metric ...
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Reportedly, Fitch Rating has reported the healthy 2013 outlook for steel-consuming industries in CIS region. Cost competitiveness and pro-cyclical ruble movements support the stable the metals and mining sectors. For Russian ...
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