According to the data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the number of buildings authorized by building permits from municipalities in Turkey in the first quarter of 2013 increased to 22,995, up 17.4 percent from 19,587 ...
Tags: Building, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Construction
In the January-April period of this year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China totaled 13.78 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 11.9 percent year on year, according to the figures released by the China Association of the National ...
Tags: Shipbuilding, ship orders
According to a report released by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in April this year the import price of iron ore increased by 1.5 percent year on year in Germany, while it was up by 4.8 percent as compared to March this ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In the week ended May 27, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 2.4 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes an increase of 9.75 percent ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
India-based Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd (GNCL) has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full financial year ended March 31, registering a net profit of INR 51.5 million ($922,086) in the fourth quarter, compared to a net ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
As of May 28, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 74.15 million mt, indicating an increase of 1.66 million mt or 2.33 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's cold rolled steel coil and sheet exports totaled 311,640 metric tons in March this year, rising by 13.7 percent compared to February and up slightly by 0.5 percent ...
Tags: Cold Rolled Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
One of only a handful of 37-year-old, still-working Apple-1 computers sold for a record three-quarters of a million dollars Saturday at an auction in Germany. The record price was paid by an anonymous bidder. In an interview with the?New ...
Tags: Computer Products
According to the World Bureau of Metal Statistics (WBMS), in the first quarter of the current year there was a nickel supply surplus of 7,000 mt in the global market. In 2012, the calculated surplus was 130,400 mt. Reported nickel stocks ...
Tags: Nickel, Q1, Metallurgy
According to the statistics provided by Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), in April this year Brazil's iron ore exports amounted to 19.18 million metric tons, rising by 1.2 percent ...
According to Ukraine's Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, in the January-April period of the current year, Ukraine's coal mining output decreased by 4.3 percent year on year to 27.989 million mt. Meanwhile, in April alone Ukraine's ...
Tags: Ukraine, Coal Mining
Ukraine's interagency commission for distribution of quotas for coking coal imports in 2013 has officially posted the recommended distribution of the quotas for the June-August period of the current year, which was determined at a meeting ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Ukraine
According to LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, retail prices for LED bulbs worldwide continue to have a downward trend this year for April. Worldwide retail price for 40W equiv. LED bulbs dropped by 5.7%, reaching 16.1 USD. ...
Sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 2.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 454,000 units in April, according to newly released figures from HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau. The gain builds on a strong upward revision ...
Tags: Construction
According to a report by market research firm YouGov, the use of Facebook in the UK has declined by nine per cent year-on-year. This fall coincides with the social media site's advertising push, which has seen promotions jump over the ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products