Mexican glassmaker Vitro said on Monday that it is in talks with its creditors in the United States. The company made the comment to Mexico's stock exchange in a short statement that did not give further details. Vitro has been fighting ...
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The popular games platform Steam is now available for Linux laptops, according to a blog by Canonical, distributor of the Ubuntu operating system. While Linux has long been one of the main operating system of choice on the server, ...
Bluefield Partners LLP, the London based solar energy investment manager, backed by Jon Moulton has announced the acquisition of one of the largest solar arrays on an industrial site in the UK. Built on Toyota’s vehicle ...
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GP Flair will launch a line of Doc McStuffins dolls, plush, role-play and play-sets this year. The toys - developed by Just Play - are officially licensed by Disney Junior's popular pre-school TV show and will hit shelves as early as ...
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The Giochi Preziosi Group has appointed Simon Hedge as managing director of the group's UK division, GP Flair. Hedge (pictured) was formerly SVP sales and marketing at the firm. He now takes overall responsibility of the group's UK ...
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If you live up north, you're likely thinking more about snow blowers and generators than string trimmers. But for readers in warmer climes, the yard work never ends so we've just added 15 new string trimmers to our Ratings. One especially ...
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At the SteelOrbis Fall'11 Conference&65th IREPAS Meeting held in St.Petersburg on September 25-27,the ChermetServis Snabzenie General Manager Sergey Labintsev made statements about the company and the scrap market in Russia. Can you ...
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Bloomberg reported that to the price of iron ore delivered China, the largest importer, climbed to a 14 month high in what Credit Suisse Group AG described as one last hoorah. According to the Steel Index, ore with 62% content at the ...
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Bloomberg reported that trading in iron ore swaps, used to bet or hedge on the future cost of the steelmaking commodity, rose almost threefold to a record this year as prices slumped to the lowest in nearly three years before rebounding. ...
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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the ...
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As we enter a new year,we are confronted with one of the more bizarre and enigmatic cotton situations in recent memory.What makes price analysis currently so difficult is that we are essentially dealing with two entirely different ...
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Computer game platform maker Valve is to port its Steam gaming and distribution platform to Ubuntu Linux in a move intended to protect the company from the impending "catastrophe" of Windows 8. Further reading Developers lose interest ...
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Proactive Investors reported that Medallion Resources shares with volume exceeding their 50 days average.The company is preparing to announce the exact location of its proposed monazite based rare earth processing facility in the Middle ...
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Japan is set to commence imports of rare earth metals for India in order to hedge against worsening relations with chief supplier China. The Asahi Shimbun reports that Japan is expected to announce the start of imports from India during a ...
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Bob Wolf, Alliance LLC vice president, doesn't believe everything he reads. Manufacturers claim they can swap out rare earth elements for cheaper, more accessible materials, while some miners insist they can fill every gap in the rare earth ...
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