Northern Region Cement became the 13th cement company to list on the Saudi stock exchange on Tuesday and its shares enjoyed a healthy rise following its market debut. The company, which is based in the northern city of Arar, listed over ...
According to statistics released by the Japan Iron & Steel Federation (JISF), Japan’s shipments of cold rolled (CR) sheets and strips totaled 496,022 tons in last December, rising by 2.8% from a month ago while falling by 5.6% year on ...
The owners of Anchorage retailer Chain Reaction Cycles are set to open Alaska’s first Trek concept store in March. Trek Store of Anchorage will be housed in 4,600 square feet of space that Trek is designing and building out with its ...
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HAUPPAUGE, NY (BRAIN) —Finish Line Technologies Inc.’s new rust-busting product, Chill Zone, is designed to free bike parts that are rusted stiff and would normally need to be replaced. Chill Zone works on frozen seat posts, ...
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Jacada has entered into a material agreement with a major US insurance group to offer its real-time process guidance and automation solutions to support the latter's policy servicing and processing operations across multiple lines of ...
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US-based employee benefits-only agency Digital Insurance has purchased Tennessee’s Capital Benefits Group, for an undisclosed sum. The acquired entity operates as a division of Digital Insurance, under the Digital Benefit Advisors ...
Professional liability insurance services provider AmerInst has added security incident and identification theft extension endorsement to its Protexure Accountants' professional liability insurance program. AmerInst Professional Services ...
Non-manufacturing economic activity remained in healthy territory, growing for the 37th consecutive month, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). In its monthly Non-Manufacturing Report on Business, the ISM reported that ...
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The sharemarket fell the most in four weeks yesterday after political uncertainty in Spain and Italy triggered risk aversion in global markets and domestic earnings reports mostly disappointed investors. THE sharemarket fell the most in ...
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The Australian dollar fell sharply late in Asia trading yesterday after the central bank signalled it has scope to cut rates again, despite holding interest rates steady at its first meeting of the year, as expected. The dollar fell to an ...
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Local shares reversed an intraday rise yesterday as caution about upcoming corporate earnings eclipsed data indicating continued improvement in Australia's two biggest trading partners. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.3 per ...
Shares in toy giant Mattel hit a 14-year high after the company revealed its 2012 financial results last Friday. Its share price on the NASDAQ US stock exchange closed at $38.26 on Friday, February 1st, its highest since June 1998. ...
ASA Australia has released a private label brand of copy paper as part of its expanding Aspire range. ASA Australia general manager Siobhan Tagell told Stationery News that Aspire-branded copy paper, developed in conjunction with ...
Global mobile phone shipments grew a modest 2% annually to reach 1.6 billion units in 2012, according to a report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service. “Ongoing macroeconomic challenges in ...
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Global smartphone shipments grew 43% annually from 490.5 million units in 2011 to a record 700.1 million units in 2012, according to a report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service. Samsung was the star ...
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