Asia, which had generally led the global growth rate until the recent inventory glut hit China, is showing signs of improvement but remains the weakest region overall. Sales rose 5.4% in weighted currency but fell in US$ to $12,593 million ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
American agribusiness company Cargill has reported net earnings of $425m in the fiscal 2015 first quarter ended 31 August, down 26% from $571m in the year-ago period. Revenues in the first three months totaled $33.3bn, a 2% change from ...
Tags: Cargill, Net Earnings, Food
In the January-August period of the year, China produced 2.518 billion mt of coal, down 1.44 percent year on year, while it sold 2.4 billion mt of coal in the same period, down 1.62 percent year on year, as announced by the China National ...
Tags: Coal, Coal output, Coal market
The New York-based retail chain is turning to toys to pick up the slack by stocking more LEGO, dolls and board games than before. International book retailer Barnes & Noble is selling more toys than ever, in order to compensate for slow ...
In the second quarter of this year, order bookings in the German machine tool industry increased by one percent year on year, according to the German Machine Tool Builders' Association (VDW). Given the dominance of the German industry in ...
As of August 25, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 109.34 million mt, up 0.54 million mt or 0.5 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on August 26. As of the same date, the Xinhua-China ...
Tags: Iron Ore Inventory, Chinese Ports, Energy
Fujian Province-based Chinese steelmaker Fujian Sangang (Group) Co. issued its financial results for the first half of the current year on August 25, announcing a net loss of RMB 43.1284 million ($7.01 million) compared to a net loss of RMB ...
In August this year, the China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) decreased to 50.3, the lowest level of the past three months, down from July's final reading of 51.7, as announced by the HSBC on August 21. In ...
Tags: PMI, sluggish demand
Listed companies in Japan saw average pretax profits rise 2% on the year in the April-June quarter, despite April’s consumption tax hike. Automakers and consumer electronics companies were among the top performers in a Nikkei pretax ...
Tags: Automakers, Electronics
Brazil Fast Food Corp, one of the largest food service groups in Brazil with 1,235 points of sale, operating under (i) the Bob's brand, (ii) the Yoggi brand, (iii) KFC and Pizza Hut São Paulo as franchisee of Yum! Brands, and (iv) ...
Tags: Brazil Fast Food, Agriculture, Food
TAIPEI — Taiwan’s Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics has raised the official national growth forecast in the light of robust global demand for mobile devices and computer components, stronger consumer ...
Tags: Taiwan, Growth, Electrical, Electronics
Operating loss figures were splashed in red in the results for the second-quarter of 2014 ending June 2014 at SK Innovation, South Korea’s foremost and world’s leading energy and petrochemical company. In the period April to ...
Tags: Red, SK Innovation, Textile
The Japanese economy shrank an annualized real 6.8 percent in the April to June quarter, falling at its fastest pace since the March 2011 disaster, apparently due to the consumption tax hike on April 1, the government said Wednesday. The ...
Tags: economy, domestic product
Delta Apparel, Inc. reported earnings fell 45 percent in the third quarter ended June 28, to $2.2 million, or 27 cents per share, from $4.0 million or 48 cents, a year ago. Revenues were down 7.6 percent to $123.5 million from $133.6 ...
Tags: Delta Apparel, Earnings, Sporting Goods
The Afrezza-branded inhaled insulin from Mannkind (Valencia, CA) will be introduced in the United States in 2015 after Sanofi entered into an agreement with the company, offering up to $925 million for the rights to sell the product ...