The World Trade Organization (WTO) has announced that it was notified by India on October 20 that it has launched a safeguard probe on 400 series stainless steel cold rolled (CR) flat product imports. According to the WTO, the ...
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In October this year, the China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) increased to 50.4 - the highest level of the past three months - higher than the anticipated level of 50.2 and up from September's final reading of ...
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On October 22, Kunming, Yunnan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Kunming Iron & Steel Holding Co. (Kunming Steel) announced that it will issue its first ultra short-term bonds for the current year on October 23, worth a total of RMB 500 ...
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China’s National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday the country’s gross domestic product rose 7.3% on the year for three months through September, the slowest growth since the first quarter of 2009. Inflation-adjusted economic ...
Both Taiwan's machinery export and machine-tool export in September missed growths expected by industry executives probably due to lagging shipments, according to president of the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI), J.C. Wang. ...
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The demand for foreign design goods is dramatically increasing in China. At the same time, the increasing demand has sapwnd overseas shopping representatives. China is the biggest luxury goods consuming country, sharing 29% of global ...
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In the January-September period this year, total real estate investments in China amounted to RMB 6.8751 trillion ($1.12 trillion), up 12.5 percent year on year, with this growth rate down 0.7 percentage points compared to the year-on-year ...
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In the January-September period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 35.7787 trillion ($5.83 trillion), up 16.1 percent year on year, as announced by China's National ...
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China's gross domestic product (GDP) indicated a year-on-year increase of 7.4 percent to RMB 41.9908 trillion ($6.84 trillion) in the January-September quarter of the current year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ...
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In September this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.0 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on October 21, with this growth rate 1.1 percentage points higher than ...
Insteel Industries, Inc. reported Thursday net earnings for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 of $4.6 million, up from $2.3 million in the same period a year ago. Net sales increased 19.3 percent to a record high $117.1 million from $98.2 ...
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Between January and August 2014, China shipped 5.4 million tons of rolled steel to Latin America, 54 percent more than the 3.5 million metric tons in the same period in 2013, Alacero reported this week. Alacero said the demand for steel ...
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In the January-September period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China amounted to 26.06 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 14.9 percent year on year, according to the figures released by China's Ministry of ...
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Orders to U.S. factories fell in August by the largest amount on record, but the drop was heavily weighed by an expected plunge in volatile aircraft orders. A key category that tracks business investment plans posted a small increase, ...
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Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has expressed confidence that a low and stable inflation rate would be soon attained. Reacting to the data released for Wholesale Price Index (WPI) and consumer price inflation for September 2014, ...
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