On April 1, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) announced that Turkey's gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of last year grew by 7.4 percent to TRY 364.2 billion ($201 billion) in current prices and by 1.4 percent in ...
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The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has announced that Brazil-based miner Vale has committed to expanding the Voisey's Bay open pit nickel mine in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador to include underground mining. The ...
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Today The Aspen Institute and the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) released a new econometric forecast model showing that there is ample potential for U.S. manufacturing to undergo a resurgence that by 2025 ...
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U.S. Labor Department data released on March 8, US February non-agricultural unemployment rate has dropped to the lowest since December 2008. It indicates that the U.S. economy is recovering powerfully. The data showed that the U.S. ...
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Motorola Mobility is cutting 1,200 jobs, in addition to a reduction of 4,000 jobs it announced in August, to focus on high-end devices. "These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer," said Motorola spokeswoman ...
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Photo courtesy of Sydney Ports Corporation. Opinion – Greg Cameron This week, the Prime Minister offered the NSW Premier $1 billion towards a road project for reducing traffic congestion caused by trucks accessing Port Botany ...
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Scottish food manufacturer Browns Food Group has acquired the Hall's brand from Dutch multi-national Vion for an undisclosed sum, safeguarding 50 jobs. Browns' aquisition of the Hall's brand has saved 50 jobs Browns finance director ...
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If you have young children or grandchildren, look at them and imagine signs around their necks: “I owe my government $52,000 — and each day I will owe more.” While the number varies according to the parameters of data ...
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Unilin’s Flooring division, which is owned by the US flooring group Mohawk Industries, intends to close two mills in Trelleborg and Perstorp, Sweden that are part of Pergo Europe. Treaters in Perstorp and a laminate flooring mill in ...
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Today, Epson America enters the dye-sublimation printing market for the first time with the announcement of two roll-fed dye-sublimation transfer printers - the 44-inch SureColor® F6070 and the 64-inch SureColor F7070. The new ...
In 2011, the United States became the world’s largest producer of natural gas, growing by 7.7% between 2010 and 2011. That represented the largest volumetric increase in the world, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World ...
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Queensland-based mining companies including coal producers are expecting to shed nearly 500 jobs from their operations in the Australian state in the next 12 months, and this is on top of a net loss of 3,370 jobs in the mining industry in ...
Epson SureColor F6070 and F7070 Deliver Increased Performance, Reliability, and Profitability to Digital Textile Production Epson America enters the dye-sublimation printing market for the first time with the announcement of two roll-fed ...
Automated self-checkout is appearing in more and more retail stores, with Walmart this year installing 10,000 self-service kiosks in hundreds of stores. But self-checkout is a technology direction with risks -- and even as Walmart moves ...
China has authorized beef imports from four additional facilities in Canada, a move which will strengthen the Canadian beef export market. The facilities that can export beef to China are Les Viandes Laroche (Asbestos, Quebec), Ryding ...
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