The March US mixed xylene contract price settled at $4.40/gal ($1,333/mt) Tuesday, 6 cents ($18.18/mt) lower than February's mark, trading sources said. Sources expected the contract price to settle lower after a decline in spot MX ...
As of March 4, the Xinhua-China Iron Ore Price Index for imported iron ore with 63.5 percent iron content was at 151 points, down five points week on week, as announced by China’s Xinhua News Agency. Meanwhile, the Xinhua-China Iron ...
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Oil futures settled lower Monday after extending an overnight slide that saw the front-month NYMEX crude contract trade below $90/barrel for the first time since December 26. NYMEX April crude settled 56 cents lower at $90.12/b, while ICE ...
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Madrid, Spain-based stainless steel producer Acerinox has announced its financial results for 2012, posting a net loss of €18.33 million, compared to a net profit of €73.73 million in the previous year. In 2012, the company's ...
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7,337 stores closed in 2012, according to figures from PwC and the Local Data Centre. An average of 20 shops closed every day in the UK last year. Figures from PwC and the Local Data Centre also found that 7,337 UK stores closed over ...
The New York cotton futures experienced a slightly stronger downward trend than the Cot look A or Bremen CIF Index during the reported week reflecting the firm market prices for available cotton as already described in the previous week. ...
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16.2%: that’s the size of the gender pay gap, or the average difference between women and men’s hourly earnings across the EU, according to the latest figures released today by the European Commission. The news comes ahead of ...
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US retailer Safeway Inc ended its financial year with an acceleration in underlying sales growth in the final quarter and earnings per share that beat analyst forecasts. Safeway reported an 0.8% rise in identical-store sales, excluding ...
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According to the Metal Industry Indicators report released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), the US economic recovery has supported domestic primary metals industry activity with modest metals demand from the manufacturing and ...
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Toluene market showed signs of improvement in Europe in the week ending February 16, 2013. Market was dull since the start of this year. Prices were hovering around US$ 1290-1310/ton FOB Rotterdam in the initial days of January 2013. ...
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Cotton trades moved at a slower pace in early February, and sellers were more flexible regarding asking prices, after significant price rises in January. The industry was indicating a slight interest for large batches and pressed down ...
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Styrene's premium to its feedstock benzene rose to its highest in four months in the Northwest European market, Platts data showed. The premium was assessed at $346/mt at Friday's close, mainly due to falling benzene prices. The premium ...
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On February 20, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that in January this year the country’s exports of mechanical and electrical products saw a month-on-month rise of 25.1 percent to $105.81 billion. In the same month, ...
Sales of DVD video products have continued to plummet in Australia as consumers migrate to online video platforms and pay-per-view download sites. Figures released by Screen Australia show that sales continued a downward trend through ...
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q1 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in 2012 the European Union (EU) automotive sales declined by 8.2 percent year on year, ...
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