A growing economy, pent-up demand, competitive mortgage rates and affordable home prices will keep housing on an upward trajectory through 2015. However, several obstacles including tight consumer credit, shortages of lots and labor and ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose one point to 47 in April from a downwardly revised March reading of 46 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). ...
Tags: Construction
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) expects apparent steel consumption in the US to deliver a return to growth and recovery in 2014-2015, after a decrease of 0.6 percent in 2013, according to its short range outlook. Worldsteel ...
Levi Strauss & Co. announced financial results for the first quarter ended February 23, 2014. Net revenues declined one percent on a reported basis and were flat on a constant-currency basis, reflecting lower sales at wholesale in the ...
Tags: Levis, women's products
The Government of Pakistan has raised the country’s textile export target by US$ 2 billion for the coming year, Minister of Textile Industry Abbas Shah Afridi has said. Addressing the members of the All Pakistan Textile Mills ...
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The number of businesses indicating they will hire staff in the months ahead has increased for a third consecutive quarter, supporting a view that underlying economic conditions are stable and that confidence is sound in spite of recent ...
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Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced the completion of the deal announced on March 19 for a pre-export finance facility (PXF) with a club of international banks in the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Ford is putting its product-led transformation on display at the 35th Bangkok International Motor Show, highlighting its commitment to bring more segment-leading global Ford vehicles to consumers in Thailand and across the ASEAN region. ...
With the pace of U.S. economic growth seen speeding up later this year and next, many business economists expect the Federal Reserve to end its bond purchases this fall or even earlier. The consensus of the 48 economists surveyed by the ...
Tags: U.S.economic, GDP, inflation
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 ...
Tags: Taxi Apps, Government Regulations, taxi
NY futures resumed their uptrend this week, as May rallied 380 points to close at 91.61 cents, while December gained 171 points to close at 79.55 cents. After meandering sideways for the past six weeks, unable to generate much ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Cotton market, Textile
The Government should work to protect the interest of the textile export sector, which has been sharply hit by sudden appreciation in value of Pakistani rupee against US dollar over the past few months, All Pakistan Textile Mills ...
Tags: textile, raw material, Government
New research from the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) has found that Australian SME exporters' confidence is on the up, with 36 per cent of active SME exporters expecting overseas sales to increase in the next 12 months. ...
A week of talking about ambitious plans for the Chinese economy was followed by a weekend of reality as key economic data were released. Journalists in Beijing flocked around a beleaguered spokesman whilst analysts elsewhere were cursing ...
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Sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 9.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 468,000 units in January from an upwardly revised pace of 427,000 units in the previous month, according to data released by the U.S. Department of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Home Sales