Inflation across the 19-country euro area hit a four-year high of 2.0 percent in February thanks to soaring prices of energy, said Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Union (EU) on Thursday. The latest inflation figure is ...
Tags: Eurozone Inflation, inflation
The positive trend in Russian plywood output posted in the first six months of 2013 continued to play out in the third quarter. At that time the country's total plywood production increased by 3.8 %. Within the third quarter, the month of ...
Tags: Plywood, Russian plywood
Beer consumption in Australia hits a 66 year low, but wine is still going up, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The downwards trend in beer consumption started in the 1970's while wine consumption ...
Tags: Beer, Agriculture, Food
Reflecting the slowdown in global production in the face of bulging inventories, Colombia's exports of ferronickel, a processed metal used in the production of stainless steel, declined to 9,994 metric tons in June, down 12.2% from the ...
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Sin Tax Reform 2012 has allowed alcoholic beverages and tobacco to become the highest consumer price index (CPI) products in Philippines, according to the report ‘February 2013 Regional Price Situationer’ by National Statistics ...
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In a first-ever meeting, peak oil proponents met with the US Energy Information Administration earlier this month to urge the nation's top statistical agency to temper its rosy outlook on future US energy production. Representatives ...
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Egypt's cotton exports for March-May 2012 decreased by 26.8 percent from last year's corresponding period's exports of 317 tons to 232 tons, according to a quarterly report released by the Central Agency for Public Mobility and Statistics ...
Tags: cotton exports, quarterly report, CAMPAS, statistical data
Usually the articles I write feature change of some sort. Most often it’s a statistical series that has moved up or down. Sideways is the exception. A series that is well-known for its volatility is construction costs. That’s ...
Tags: market view, construction
GOVERNMENT help for solar power was supposed to be a triple play: jobs at a time of dire short-term need; incubation of an American industry sure to be important on a global scale in the next few years; and a long-term reduction in ...
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GOVERNMENT help for solar power was supposed to be a triple play: jobs at a time of dire short-term need; incubation of an American industry sure to be important on a global scale in the next few years; and a long-term reduction in ...
Tags: solar