The construction industry shed 2.2 million workers between January 2007 and last year. So now there's an overabundance of them eager for jobs, right? Wrong. Contractors are struggling with shortages of workers as the home-building market ...
Tags: construction industry, workers, shortage, construction
The fortunes of base metals producers are based primarily on one very big customer China. So it’s little wonder that most stocks associated with producing copper and other metals are stuck in no man’s land right now up from ...
Tags: metals producers, big customer, China, copper, metals
With inward remittance of foreign funds boosting the amount of demand deposits at banks, the annual growth rate of M1B, money supply in narrower definition, advanced to 3.65% in November, while M2, money supply in broader definition, ...
Tags: inward remittance, oreign funds, demand deposits, CBC
The United States is honoring its role, to the best of its ability, as the world's locomotive, although despite the positive performance of the real estate market, America seems to be recovering slower than expected. The stumbling block ...
Tags: Glass Industry, Glass, glass market, Technological innovation
In consonance with the economic undulations prevalent in much of the developed world the steel market has been playing second fiddle. With whole of 2012 washed off in guess work about turnaround in the economic crisis in Europe and USA ...
Tags: flat steel market, flat steel, steel, steel prices
THE Australian dollar's recent rally may be pausing at the moment,but that doesn't mean it has stopped. Reading between the lines of an interview with Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens this week,there might well be reason ...
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Egger Holzwerkstoffe delivered significant growth in its earnings during its 2011/12 financial year, which ended on 30 April. The company erased a weaker start in the first six months as the year progressed. EBITDA had risen by just 5% ...
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After a solid first half, BASF maintained good business performance overall in the third quarter. Sales rose by 8% to €19 billion, particularly due to higher volumes. At just under €2.1 billion, income from operations (EBIT) ...
After nearly a 2 year long lull, construction equipment makers are looking forward to early signs of revival of domestic mining and road construction sector. The revival has come at a time when construction equipment market in the rest of ...
Tags: construction equipment, domestic mining, road construction sector
Demand for luxury products continues but, writes Simon Creasey, the sector’s design outlook is filtering into Recession – what recession? Recent sales figures from luxury retailers belie fears of a double dip economic ...
Tags: Luxury Packaging, Markets, packaging
In the midst of a gloomy GDP growth scenario, an ASSOCHAM business confidence survey has indicated that the slowdown is about to bottom out, but it may get a little worse before it gets better in the last quarter of the current financial ...
Tags: GDP, current financial year, business confidence survey
Taipei,Oct.11,2012(CENS)--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)had consolidated sales revenue of NT$43.3 billion(US$1.44 billion at US$1:NT$30)in September,slipping an unexpected 12.4% from August and hitting a five-month low ...
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Those who are familiar with my work know that I like it when investment ideas remind me of prior decisions that have worked out well.Corning(GLW)reminds me of other cyclical stocks that have done well once earnings estimates first start to ...
Tags: Corning, cyclical stocks, LCD glass
Reuters reported that Austrian fireproof materials maker RHI expects its fourth quarter results to weaken somewhat from the really fantastic levels it generated in the first three quarters as a steel sector slump hits home. Chief ...
Tags: steel houses, steel building, steel frame window, steel metal
Taipei,Oct.5,2012(CENS)--Since the fourth quarter is traditionally the busy season for share listing,plus the levy of securities transaction gains tax next year,at least 17 enterprises are rushing to list their shares on the stock market in ...