The S&P/ASX200 has closed down 2 per cent at 5062.4, as slower Chinese manufacturing activity in May combined with signs that the US Federal Reserve could start rolling back its bond-buying program to send the local sharemarket to its ...
Designs for more than two dozen advanced U.S. weapon systems, including missile defenses, combat aircraft and ships, were reportedly accessed by Chinese hackers. The systems were listed in a previously undisclosed section of a report ...
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IDG News Service - Samsung Electronics shipped 12.5 million smartphones to the Chinese market during the first quarter, the most it has shipped to the country in a single quarter, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. The company ...
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A SHOCK contraction in Chinese manufacturing and the prospect that the US Federal Reserve could soon unwind its quantitative easing measures rocked local markets yesterday, pushing the Australian dollar close to an annual low and wiping ...
A proposal in Taiwan to enforce copyright laws by blocking access to top piracy sites is facing concerns that the measures could impinge on Internet freedoms on the island. The intellectual property office of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic ...
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Axalta Coating Systems will build a new automotive coatings manufacturing facility in China with investments of over $50m. The new facility is scheduled to break ground in the second half of 2013 following the approval from the ...
Artificial turf is a surface of synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that were originally or are normally played on grass. However, it is now being used on residential lawns and ...
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The Rieter Com4 Yarn Trading Seminar China will be held on June 14 – 15 in Rieter China Changzhou Plant. The main target groups are yarn traders, buyers and sellers in China. Focal points are the 4 different Com4 yarns, their ...
China Steel Structure Co. (CSSC), the subsidiary company of Taiwan's China Steel Corp. and also one of the major steel structure suppliers in Taiwan, said the company's orders have been full booked until the end of 2013. CSSC's manager said ...
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China Mengniu Dairy is set to launch a new organic milk brand, which will be imported from Denmark. The company stated that the new brand of milk will be supplied by Swedo-Danish cooperative Arla Foods and will be marketed under Arla ...
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The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has approved the previously announced agreement of Heinz takeover by an investment consortium comprised of Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital. The transaction, which remains subject to certain customary ...
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The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) has stated that in mid-May (May 11-20) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.7405 million mt, down 0.4 percent ...
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As of May 24, inventories of the main finished steel products (plate, hot rolled coil (HRC), cold rolled coil (CRC), rebar and wire rod) in the major steel markets in China indicated decreases, according to the China Iron and Steel ...
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Shanxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Co. Ltd (TISCO) has announced that three overseas classification societies - Korean Register of Shipping, Germany's Germanischer Lloyd and Norway's Det Norske Veritas - ...
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In April this year, China's aggregate metallurgical coke and ferroalloy outputs were up 4.9 percent and 12.2 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Meanwhile, the country exported ...
Tags: Finished Steel, China