Market reports that China's National Energy Administration is considering a proposal to outlaw the import of some grades of lower calorific thermal coal has been greeted with a mixture of consternation and disbelief by participants in the ...
Tags: Asia Market, Thermal Coal
Iran's Petrochemical Commercial Co is expected to offer more LPG to Asia after selling a cargo to South Korea, possibly its first to this region in 2013 since an EU ban late last year, by using ships made available for CFR deliveries, ...
Turkish pipemaker Ozbal Celik Boru has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. In the first quarter, Ozbal registered a net loss of TRY 897,314 ($486,238), compared to a net loss of TRY 948,916 in the corresponding ...
Tags: Pipe Producer, Net Loss
The sharemarket rebounded yesterday after two days of losses, as the dollar tumbled again and government bond yields also fell. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 0.3 per cent at 5180.8 after hitting an intraday high of 5194.9. However, ...
Tags: Stocks, Dollar, Bond Yields
The three largest valve companies (Pentair, Emerson and Flowserve) have captured 10 percent of the world industrial valve market but have only a 5.2 percent share of the Asian market. This is the conclusion reached in Industrial Valves: ...
Tags: Valve, Asian Valve Market
After a sharp fall of the ICE futures at the end of the previous calendar week the quotations of the CIF Bremen Index moved to a level last recognized two weeks before. One reason for the downturn of prices was obviously the release of ...
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the idea on Tuesday of requiring all H-1B employers to make a "good faith" effort in hiring U.S. workers before taking on an H-1b worker. The good faith amendment to the comprehensive ...
Tags: Computer Products, Senators, H-1b
Asian isomer-grade mixed xylene traders are eying opportunities to make the reverse arbitrage movement from Northeast Asia to the US Gulf Coast given the recent widening of prices between both regions, traders said Wednesday. Several ...
Tags: Asian Isomer-MX, Arbitrage
The annual BlackBerry Live conference was kicked off Tuesday with the launch of a new 3.1-in. qwerty smartphone, the BlackBerry Q5, that's slated to go on sale this summer in emerging markets, but not in the U.S. Blackberry's qwerty Q5 ...
Tags: Blackberry, Smartphone, Computer Products
LASER 2013: China's competitive nature 16 May 2013 Still dependent on high-tech imports, China is learning on customer experience, but home-grown laser sales and exports are on the up. By Matthew Peach in Munich Asia calling: Laser ...
The Qingming Festival is an opportunity for celebrants to remember and honour their ancestors at grave sites. Young and old pray before the ancestors, sweep the tombs and offer food, tea, wine, chopsticks, joss paper accessories, and/or ...
Tags: Celebration, Qingming Festival
BlackBerry's free Messenger service is being expanded to work with iOS and Android devices. Analysts regarded the move -- announced today at BlackBerry Live -- as mostly positive, since it could help an improving BlackBerry expand its ...
Tags: BlackBerry, iOS, Android
International exhibition organizer Messe Frankfurt GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, and Proposte S.r.l., Italy — organizer of the annual Proposte exhibition for European manufacturers of furnishing fabrics and curtains — have partnered ...
Tags: Messe Frankfurt, Textile
The Mediterranean gasoline cargo market has strengthened to a $8.50/mt discount to the Northwest European Eurobob barge market, the narrowest discount since March 22, Platts data shows, following demand into North Africa and potential flows ...
Volkswagen is recalling around 91,000 cars in Japan due to potential problems with the company’s dual-clutch (DSG) automatic gearboxes, less than two months after more than 384,000 cars were recalled in China for a similar issue. A ...
Tags: Volkswagen, Gearbox Recall, Japan