Ford Motor Company has announced that its sales in February this year in US was 195,822 vehicles, a year-on-year growth of 9.3%, the sales was 179,119 vehicles in the same period last year. Ford’s sales in the US in February was ...
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Reportedly, the major steelmakers in the US announced to hiked prices of steel flat products last week. It’s learned that US Steel announced to increase the prices of hot rolled, cold rolled and hot dipped galvanized steel ...
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According to the Mineral Industry Survey released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), stocks of imported and domestic scrap in the US at the end of December 2012 amounted to 3.7 million mt, up slightly from the end of November. Exports of ...
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Sony has sold the main office "Sony CityOsaki" in Tokyo by the 111.1 billion yen (about 1.2 billion dollars). The office building is 25 stories high, was completed in 2011 in March, covering an area of 124,000 square meters, containing ...
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The world's largest consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY) reported on Friday that the fourth quarter in fiscal 2012,the loss narrowed compared to the same period last year, which thanks to cost-cutting to offset the flat ...
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From 2009 to 2012, Ford's four-wheel drive vehicle sales grew 72%, while the US's auto market increased 53%. More than 20% of the sales of new cars in the US auto market in 2012 used the four-wheel drive system. Among Ford's cars which ...
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THE dollar tumbled to its lowest level in eight months after China announced new measures to cool property prices, fuelling speculation that demand for Australia's commodities might weaken. The Aussie also fell after local data showed ...
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NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index increased in the fourth quarter of 2012 after a decline in the third quarter, growing 1.9 percent on a quarter-to-quarter basis and by 3.3 percent on a year-over-year basis. Lighting equipment demand has ...
THE Dow Jones Industrial Average has edged closer to an all-time closing high, as investors brushed off steep losses in China's equity markets and pushed major benchmarks higher. The Dow rose 38.16 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 14127.82, to ...
According to report released by the American Institute for International Steel (AIIS), the government’s preliminary data showed that the country’s steel imports totaled 2.579 million tons in this January, rising by 4.6% year on ...
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The global economy seems to be turning the corner and now heading upwards, with developing economies clearly in the front seat, as stated by Kim Marti Subirana of Celsa Group at the SteelOrbis 2013 Spring Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting ...
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Microsoft's second quarter revenue of 21.456 billion dollars, an increase of 3% from 20.885 billion dollars in the same period last year; The net profit was 6.377 billion dollars, down 4% from 6.624 billion dollars last year. Microsoft's ...
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The Australian sharemarket retreated from a four-and-a-half year high before last-minute budget talks at the White House aimed at avoiding $US85 billion of automatic spending cuts, the so-called sequester, due to start taking effect today ...
The price of carbon steel plate in US keeps declining owing to soft demand as the ex-work prices of hot rolled coil and cold rolled coil have been down to US$600~620/short ton from US$610~630/short ton and to US$710~730/short ton from ...
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For 2012, First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has reported net ...
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