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Server DRAM Contract Prices to Fall by Over 20% QoQ in 1Q19
Feb 11, 2019Contract prices of server DRAM are expected to fall by more than 20% QoQ in 1Q19, steeper than the previous forecast of 15%, reports DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce. The demand outlook remains weak due to high inventory levels and ...
Tags: Server DRAM, Reducing Inventory
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DGBAS Projects Taiwan's GDP at 1.92 Percent for 2017, a 3-Year Zenith
Feb 22, 2017DGBAS reports Taiwan’s 2017 GDP growth forecast to stand at a three-year high of 1.92 percent, with annual export to show the strongest increase of 8.5 percent in the past six years (photo courtesy of UDN.com). In light of the ...
Tags: GDP growth
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China's Investment in US Expected to Grow Fast
Jan 3, 2017China's direct investment in the U.S. is expected to grow fast in 2017, but political realties pose major downside risk to it, according to a research report by a U.S. consulting firm. Chinese companies invested a record of 45.6 billion ...
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Inclusive Policy for a Fairer Asia-Pacific
Dec 12, 2016Against the backdrop of a sluggish global economy, lackluster trade growth and uncertainty in major economies, countries in the Asia-Pacific region are still likely to have a growth rate of 4.9 percent this year. The region continues to ...
Tags: global economy
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Optimism Among Traders as Canton Fair Opens
Oct 17, 2016Chinese manufacturers and traders were optimistic about overcoming global economic headwinds as they turned up at the month-long Canton fair which opened its 120th session on Saturday at the southern city of Guangzhou. The biannual event, ...
Tags: Canton Fair
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IMF Cuts 2016 Global Growth Forecast to 3.1%
Jul 20, 2016The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday revised down its forecast for global growth in 2016 and 2017, due to the uncertainty surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union (Brexit). The IMF expects the global economy to grow ...
Tags: IMF, global growth
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Taiwan's Economic Indicator Continues Showing Yellow-Blue in May
Jun 30, 2016Taiwan may have been gradually walking out of months-long economic recession for the time being, as the economic monitoring indicator regularly issued by Cabinet-level National Development Council (NDC) flashed a transitional yellow-blue ...
Tags: economic recession, yellow-blue light, NDC
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Vegas Shows Reveal Stable, Fast-Changing Market
Jun 20, 2016As a bellwether for the U.S. jewelry market and global diamond industry, this year's Las Vegas shows met the trade's conservative expectations. While foot traffic and diamond trading were slightly slower than previous years, jewelry sales ...
Tags: jewelry market, Las Vegas
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“Mediocre” Is The New Air Cargo Reality
Mar 22, 2016The IATA reports that air cargo global growth continued to perform below its potential – “mediocre growth is now the new reality”. Growth in freight tonne kilometres (FTK) had positive momentum since 2H2015 and into ...
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Emerging Markets Become China’s Lighting Products New Export Destinations
Nov 13, 2015Moderate economic growth in 2015 has become the “new norm” for the stabilizing Chinese economy. With the Chinese government introducing industry restructures, explosive economic growth has become history. Gone are the good days ...
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China's Spot Aluminum Alloy ADC12 Offers Track Stable Primary Ingots
Nov 4, 2015Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 were steady after the fall last week on the sharp drop in primary aluminum prices, while trade remained thin as there was no significant change in physical buying interest, sources said ...
Tags: Aluminum Alloy, trade, vehicle sales
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Painful Situations Be Unavoidable in Mature Phase
Oct 15, 2015“The (Chinese) LED industry is in deep waters, and only a few manufacturers will survive in the next few years,” said several industry insiders during recent interviews with LEDinside’s editorial team in China. With the ...
Tags: LED industry, Chinese LED market
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China: Little Interest Seen for Russian Tender
Sep 12, 2015China's independent teapot refiners are showing little interest in participating in Russian M100 tenders that are set to be issued in late September or early October, market sources said Thursday. Only two 40,000 mt cargoes of Russian ...
Tags: Teapot Refineries, Refineries
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Fitch Says Bangladesh Outlook Stable
Sep 1, 2015Global credit-rating agency Fitch has projected Bangladesh's economic outlook as stable for the current year also, but with a footnote that political and banking-sector risks remained on the flip side, a leading Bangladeshi newspaper has ...
Tags: Fitch, economic outlook
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Ind-Ra Has Maintained an Overall Stable Outlook for The Cotton Textile Sector for Fy16
Jul 10, 2015Credit rating agency India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has maintained an overall stable outlook for the cotton textile sector for FY16. This is led by stable spinning margins in the cotton yarn segment, range-bound cotton prices and ...
Tags: textile manufacture, garment manufacture, cotton textile
