The Australian sharemarket has closed flat as investors gave a muted response to the Bank of Japan's plan for a more expansionary 2 per cent inflation target. At 4.15pm AEDT today, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 1.6 points, or ...
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China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center (CEMAC): National Business Climate Survey results showed that the business climate index (BCI) was 124.4 in the fourth quarter, increased 1.6 points quarter-on-quarter. Of which, the current BCI ...
On Monday, Esmark Inc., Stahlschmidt Incorporated and Bouchard Group, L.L.C. jointly announced that they have consummated a sale and licensing agreement whereby Stahlschmidt and Bouchard Group have jointly acquired Esmark Technologies from ...
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Zhou Zhongshu, president of Beijing-based Chinese state-owned metals and mineral trading group China Minmetals Corporation, has announced that in 2012 China Minmetal’s operating revenue amounted to RMB 325 billion ($51.75 billion), ...
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,22 commodities increased in prices, 25 fell and 52 remained unchanged on 18/01/2013.The largest rises were Polyester yarn (1.67%),Propylene oxide (1.38%),Silver ...
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This Swiss paper describes an approach for assessing the risks caused by urban wet-weather discharges to the sediment compartment, based on total suspended solids (TSS), and is validated with field measurements. Sediment represents an ...
In the year of 2012, in face of the increasingly complicated and severe international situation and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the Central Party Committee and the State Council took scientific development ...
According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China the country's fixed-asset investment in the mining industry reached $211 billion (CNY 1,312.9 billion) in 2012, an increase of 11.8% over 2011. Fixed-asset investment in coal mining ...
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The sharemarket rose yesterday after US housing data suggested economic growth in the world's biggest economy was likely to continue, and above-consensus GDP data from China showed that an economic recovery in Australia's biggest trading ...
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The Australian sharemarket rose after US housing data suggested economic growth in the world's biggest economy was likely to continue, and above-consensus GDP data from China showed that an economic recovery in Australia's biggest trading ...
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According to the latest data released by the Brazilian Institute of Non-ferrous Metals (ICZ), the country's nickel production, which was 43,136 mt in 2011, amounted to 66,272 mt in 2012, up 53.6 percent year on year. In 2012, Brazil ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,15 commodities increased in prices, 27 fell and 57 remained unchanged on 17/01/2013.The largest rises were Hydrochloric acid (3.40%),Coking coal (0.71%),Calcium carbide ...
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In November 2012, Japan's seasonally adjusted industrial production decreased 1.7 percent from the previous month, while the original index indicated a decrease of 5.8 percent compared to the same month last year. The country's seasonally ...
Manufacturers who want to keep selling all-metal hips will have to prove that they're safe and effective, according to proposed new rules from the Food and Drug Administration. Incredibly, for the past decade manufacturers have been ...
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The US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and DARPA will spend $194m in the next five years under the STARnet initiative to fund six university microelectronics research projects. C-FAR at University of Michigan: Research future ...