The January 2014 Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Survey of Investor Confidence reveals that despite some positive trends, such as sales and profitability continuing to rise off of a low base through the December quarter, ...
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Supermarket contemplated the acquisition six months ago in a bid to refresh its stores. Tesco considered making a bid for mother and baby retailer Mothercare, reports RetailWeek. The supermarket contemplated the acquisition six months ...
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Hewlett-Packard announced Wednesday it was launching a line of "voice tablets," or outsized smartphones, for consumers in India. The devices will be the first smartphones from the US computer giant since it stopped production of Palm ...
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Indonesian cement sales increased by 5.6 per cent in 2013, less than half the rate of growth of 14.5 per cent the year before, due to slower demand particularly outside the main consumption hub of Java. Domestic cement sales for the ...
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Tablet consumers have taken as big a bite out of Mac growth as they have out of personal computers in general, showing that Apple is not immune to the seismic shift it triggered with the iPad. During the 12 months preceding 30th September ...
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According to the latest data from the China Iron and Steel Association, the daily average production of crude steel in China was expected to be around 1.96 million tons in the second half of December last year. This is the first time to ...
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Samsung Electronics' operating profits for the last quarter of 2013 are expected to have declined due to sluggish growth in the global smartphone market. Under the circumstances, companies supplying Samsung Electronics with handset ...
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Turkey's gold imports hit a new record high in 2013 because of the ongoing gold-for-gas trade with Iran and the slump of the gold price in the year. Turkey imported 302.3 tons of gold in the past year, data from Borsa Istanbul indicated a ...
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It is learnt from ZX Auto that it wins another order to export 550 Grand Tiger TUV pickups to Iraq. Thanks to the good reputation in Iraqi market and excellent performance of Grand Tiger TUV, ZX Auto is awarding with larger and larger ...
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Although the contraction of Taiwan's machine-tool exports slowed to 5.8% for the month of November 2013, the Taiwan Machine Tool & Accessory Builders' Association (TMBA) estimates that the island's overseas shipments of machine tools for ...
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By Jonathan S. Reiskin, Associate News Editor Orders for heavy-duty North American trucks grew in nine of the first 10 months of the year, as industry watchers wondered when the mild slump in U.S. truck sales would end. Finally, in ...
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Six in 10 heads of Japanese companies expect the economy to have recovered half a year after this coming April's consumption tax hike, a Nikkei survey finds. The quarterly poll of presidents or chairmen at key domestic corporations found ...
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According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), Turkey exported 8,022 tons of coated steel sheets in this October, slumping by 49.71% from a month ago and decreasing by 55.53% year on year. In October, the ...
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An unusual surge in public construction in October pushed total construction spending to its highest level since May 2009 despite a dip in both private residential and nonresidential activity, according to an analysis of new Census Bureau ...
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China's economy is finally rebounding from its deepest slump since the 2008 global crisis but the shaky recovery could be vulnerable to a new downturn in global trade. Growth rose to 7.9 percent in the three months ending in December, up ...