Berkshire Hathaway reported that revenues from its retail group were up 18.1% in the third quarter to $944 million, which the company attributed partly to "improved comparative results of the home furnishings and jewelry business groups." ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Third quarter (July-September) of 2013, the Global tablet PC shipments (Express value) was 47.6 million units, an increase of 36.7 percent, an increase of 7.0% M-O-M. Support the market growth is equipped with Google "android" system of the ...
Tags: Tablet PC, Computer Products, Electronics
Farm equipment manufacturers report strong sales heading into the fourth quarter of 2013. According to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers' latest report (issued in August), U.S. unit retail sales showed double-digit growth in most ...
Tags: Farm Machinery, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Farm equipment
Most domestic steelmakers are seeing an improvement in their third-quarter performance. Fifteen of the 20 listed steel companies that issued third quarter reports made profits, as opposed to last year, when up to 90 percent of the steel ...
Tags: Steel Industry, Steelmakers
Beiqi Foton Motor gained CNY 25.88 billion incomes and CNY 521 million net profits in the first three quarters, down 22.04% and 66.55% year on year. The company made CNY 216 million net profits deducting non-recurring losses and profits ...
Tags: Motor, Auto Parts, Transportation
China Merchants Securities won the clearing membership of CME Group via its subsidiary China Merchants Futures (HK), opening up a channel for Chinese mainland securities companies to provide overseas commercial risk hedging products and ...
58.com, a Chinese local classified- ad website, had its initial public offering (IPO) Thursday at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with the IPO price of USD 17 a share. The shares closed at USD 24.31, representing an increase of 43%. The ...
Tags: Service, 58, web service
It's reported that the Chinese steelmaker Shagang announced to cut its list prices for hot rolled steel products by RMB200/ton for November. However, the company remained its list prices for medium heavy plates unchanged for November. After ...
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According to data released by Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF), Japan’s imports of steel products totaled 604,000 tons in September, falling by 4.9% year on year and decreasing by 10.4% from a month ago. Among them, the imports ...
Tags: Steel, Construction
Yieh Hsing, one of the major wire rod producers in Taiwan to keep its carbon steel wire rod prices unchanged for November. Also, the company has remained its wire rod prices unchanged for consecutive two months. Recently, the raw material ...
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Alcoa plans to idle its Canadian three Quebec smelter capacity if the company fails the power agreement with the Canadian public unit Hydro-Quebec energy. In theory, the total capacity of three smelters is 953000 tons. Alcoa has demanded ...
Tags: Aluminum Smelters, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to the Russia-based SpetsStal Association, Russian imports of stainless steel products in September this year increased by 5.6 percent compared to August, rising to 20,339 mt. In the January-September period, Russia's stainless ...
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According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in September this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit increased by 7.6 percent to $7.5 ...
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Reportedly, Tang Eng, one of the major stainless steel producers in Taiwan announced to remain its list prices flat for November. Also, the company kept its stainless steel export prices flat for November. Tang Eng said that since the LME ...
Tags: Stainless Steel Flat, steel, taiwan
It's reported that US Steel announced to permanently shut down its Hamilton mill in Ontario at the end of this year. The annual production of the mill is at 2.3 million tons before it was idled in 2010. US Steel expected the closure of ...
Tags: Steel, Construction