In January this year, total automotive vehicle sales in the Chinese domestic market amounted to 2,034,500 units, rising by 12.41 percent month on month and up 46.38 percent year on year, as announced by the China Association of Automobile ...
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On February 21, Shandong Province-based Chinese steelmaker Jinan Iron and Steel Co. (Jigang) announced that in 2012 its plate plant produced over 1.123 million mt of finished steel, including 1.087 million mt of steel plates. Consumption of ...
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According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, in 2012 Japan's ferroalloy imports amounted to 1.7 million metric tons, decreasing by 4.5 percent year on year. Meanwhile, Japan's ferroalloy imports totaled 143,763 metric ...
The net sales of Subaru in the first three year was 13,707 million yen (about 14.67 billion dollars), an increase of 33.2% compared with the same period of the previous year. During the period from 2012 April to December, Subaru car sales ...
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Reportedly, the Chinese Hebei Steel released its price policy for March. The company decided to raise its prices for hot rolled plates/coils and medium heavy plates by RMB180/ton and it hiked its prices for cold rolled sheets/coils by ...
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Reportedly, China’s Benxi Steel announced to raise its prices for hot rolled plates/coils by RMB130~RMB150/ton for March. Also, the company increased the prices for cold rolled sheets/coils and galvanized steel sheets by ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in December last year Turkey's total hot rolled coil (HRC) exports amounted to 110,959 metric tons, up 14.3 percent compared to the previous month and more than ...
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The Australian dollar fell to a four-month low after equities markets suffered heavy losses in overnight trade. At 6.30am AEDT the local unit was trading at 102.25 US cents, down from 102.35 cents at yesterday’s local close. Early ...
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It is reported that according to statistics released, Turkish seamless pipe imports reached almost 250,000 metric tons in 2012, owing to stronger demand from end-use sectors, such as automotive, HVAC installations, construction, naval ...
A TOP BlackRock executive said there was little evidence of a meaningful switch by global investors into equities from fixed-income assets, even after recent strong sharemarket gains. "There appears to be a lot of cash coming off the ...
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Shares were on track for their biggest fall in three months after minutes from the Federal Reserve's most recent policy-setting meeting showed rising unease about the US central bank's recent stimulus efforts. Domestic earnings reports had ...
The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) has stated that in early February (Feb.1-10) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.7014 million mt, up 6.1 percent ...
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's coking coal imports totaled 5.5 million metric tons in December last year, rising by 2.2 percent month on month and up 7.6 percent compared to December 2011. In ...
In the fourth quarter of last year, home sales in Turkey increased by 21.5 percent as compared to the previous quarter and were up 5.8 percent year on year, with 125,815 houses sold, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical ...
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Profits earned by steelmakers in China's Hebei province in 2012 amounted to RMB 85.06/mt ($13.6/mt), far exceeding the average profit of RMB 2.68/mt ($0.43/mt) of medium and large steelmakers in China, as announced by provincial government ...
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