August crude steel production by the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association was 130.4 million mt, down 1.1% on a revised July total of 131.9 million mt and up 5.2% year on year, the WSA said Friday. August's output, which ...
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Inditex posted net sales of 7.7 billion euros in the first half of FY13 (from 1 February to 31 July), year-on-year growth of 6%; this figure rises to 8% in local currency terms. Like-for-like sales growth was 2%, on top of a 7% in 1H12. The ...
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Zepol Corporation, a leading trade intelligence company, reported that U.S. imports in August are the second highest month for TEU (twenty-foot container) volume in 2013. The United States imported nearly 1.61 million TEUs in August, which ...
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Reportedly, Nucor expected that its third-quarter earnings would rise from the level in a year ago, driven by improved demand and supply disruption of its competitors. The company expected that its earnings would be a 35~40 cents a share, ...
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According to data released by Mexico's economic secretary, the country's rebar exports totaled 189,531 tons in the second quarter of this year, rising by 10% from 171,751 tons in the first quarter. Meanwhile, the country's export values ...
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According to local sources, the stocks of stainless steel products in the Chinese Wuxi market totaled 179,646 tons in the first half of September, rising by 3.3% from the previous 10 days. Among them, 86,523 tons were cold rolled stainless ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Construction
It's reported that Japan's Tokyo Steel announced to raise its domestic prices for most of its steel products by ¥2,000/ton for October contracts, supported by further confidence in the country's construction steel market. The company ...
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South Korea imported 16,769 mt of ethanol in August, up 34% from July, and up 5.6% on the same month a year ago, according to customs data released Friday. The biggest increase was seen in imports of undenatured ethanol, which surged 259% ...
A multiple-sclerosis drug that was at the center of Sanofi SA's SAN.FR +1.12% $20 billion takeover battle for Genzyme Corp. three years ago was approved for sale in Europe on Tuesday, the drug's first regulatory approval world-wide. The ...
The global output of textile manufacturing sector increased by 4 percent year-on-year during the second quarter of 2013, according to the 'World Manufacturing Production: Statistics for Quarter II, 2013', released by the Statistics Unit of ...
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A 34% rise in wool prices and a six-fold uplift in the volume sold to date compared with the same point in the 2012-sales calendar are a clear signal of the benefits sheep farmers gain from selling their wool through the British Wool ...
Existing-home sales increased in August and reached the highest level in six-and-a-half years, while the median price shows nine consecutive months of double-digit year-over-year increases, according to the National Association of Realtors. ...
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Toyota Argentina (TASA), a vehicle production and sales subsidiary of Japanese automaker Toyota Motors (TMC), is set to invest $800m to increase the annual production capacity of its Zarate Plant from the current 92,000 units to 140,000 ...
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More than 2.6 million bales of cotton have reached ginneries in Pakistan by September 15, 2013, according to the latest fortnightly cotton arrival report released by the Pakistan Cotton Ginneries Association (PCGA). The report says of the ...
DuPont announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions effective Oct. 1, 2013, or as contracts allow, as ...
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