Negotiations for the July Asian Contract Price for paraxylene have drawn buyers to make a counterbid of $1,300/mt CFR on Wednesday, almost $200/mt lower than sellers' nominations, sources close to the negotiations said. There are four ACP ...
Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Polyester
China's Shanghai Futures Exchange is hoping its new asphalt futures contract -- to be launched next month -- will revive interest in oil trading on the bourse, after activity on its fuel oil contract fizzled out, Zhang Zheng, SHFE's ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Making RFID tags affordable is one of the key drivers in the rapid development of Printed Electronics (PE). With traditional RFID tags being considered expensive, fragile and open to questions about security and performance, the concept ...
Tags: Printed Electronics, RFID tags, Packaging, Printing
Google is revealing some new numbers around malware and phishing attempts in an effort to get more people thinking about online security and to make the Web safer. The data is being incorporated into the company's biannual transparency ...
Tags: Google, Malware, Transparency, Web safer
There is less than a week left to have your say on the final report into the feasibility of high-speed rail down Australia’s east coast. More than 30,000 people have downloaded the Phase Two report, with more than 174 submissions ...
Tags: High-Speed Rail, Service
The Dubai Council for Marine & Maritime Industries holds membership meeting Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 The Dubai Council for Marine & Maritime Industries (DCMMI), the industry body representing the concerns of the marine and maritime ...
Tags: Dubai, Marine&Maritime Industries
Crude oil futures settled slightly higher Tuesday as a pipeline shutdown in Alberta, Canada, and escalating tensions in the Middle East lent the complex a bullish note, amid rising equities markets. NYMEX August crude settled 14 cents ...
Tags: Crude Futures, Crude oil
US-based supermarket chain Price Chopper Supermarket is voluntarily recalling three varieties of Burst Cookies - a frozen cookie produced by Jacqueline's Wholesale Bakery and baked in all of the chain's in-store bakeries, as it may contain ...
Driven by rising home prices and growing demand,the U.S.housing recovery is well underway,concludes The State of the Nation's Housing report released today by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.While still at ...
Tags: housing recovery, home prices, demand, renter
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission proposes to authorise a revised version of the Homeworkers Code of Practice for five years. The Code is a mechanism within the textile, clothing and footwear industry designed to assist ...
Saudi Arabia s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah, has approved plans to set up a new cement supplier in the capital city, Riyadh. Umm-Al-Qura Cement will be set up with a capital of SR: 200m provided ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
It's reported that Korean steel giant Posco has resumed its operations at the mini-mill at its Gwangyang works after 6-day maintenance during June 14th through June 19th. It's learned that the maintenance was mainly to upgrade facility to ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, steel
India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma will be meeting heads of global retail chains on June 27 to address their concerns related to the Government’s foreign direct investment (FDI) Policy in multi-brand retail ...
Tags: Global Retail Chains, Apparel
Spanish operator Telefonica is worried about the Android-iOS smartphone duopoly, and has joined with Microsoft in a marketing blitz that it hopes will convince consumers to pick up smartphones based on Windows Phone. For one year, ...
Tags: Telefonica, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Smartphone
Microsoft kicked off its Build conference in San Francisco this week by releasing a preview of the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, as well as updates to other development tools. How user input and follow-up interactions are ...
Tags: Microsoft, Visual Studio Tools, App