The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) used a weather analogy to characterize its latest Q3 business survey. And it's not a bad forecast: Partly sunny with reduced chance of showers. The Q3 business survey of member carriers found rising ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, auto
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported today that non-manufacturing activity in July had a very solid month. In its Non-Manufacturing Report on Business, the ISM reported that its index used to measure growth—the ...
Tags: Non-Manufacturing
Apple will launch a high-resolution, Retina-equipped iPad Mini this fall or in early 2014. Or it won't. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) today claimed that Apple suppliers will ...
With slower than expected activity in the nonresidential construction sector in the first half of the year, the projections for growth in spending have been scaled back. Led by the hotel and retail project categories, the commercial sector ...
Industrial laser specialist says that there is still growth in the market for high-power CO2 lasers. Sales at Rofin-Sinar in the quarter ended June 30 have exceeded expectations, thanks mainly to machine tool and electronics applications ...
Tags: CO2 lasers, high-power lasers
IC Insights’ new 250-page Mid-Year Update to the 2013 McClean Report, which is slated to be released by the end of July, describes why a very clear distinction should be made between the IC market (i.e., consumption) in China and IC ...
Tags: IC Companies, IC Production
Oil prices advanced on Wednesday after a report showed that U.S. economic growth was higher than expected in the second quarter of the year. The U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.7 percent in the ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Economic Data
With slower than expected activity in the nonresidential construction sector in the first half of the year, the projections for growth in spending have been scaled back. Led by the hotel and retail project categories, the commercial sector ...
Tags: Building Activity
The world's largest steelmaker Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of the current year, stating that it has had to lower its guidance for 2013 due to weaker than ...
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Naadam Cashmere and Mimoona, which developed a unique crowdvoting tool, have teamed up to revolutionize the way the fashion industry does business. Blending concepts from Kickstarter, Groupon and Gilt Groupe, this next generation form of ...
According to a RnR Market Research report, the retail market in Brazil is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.82% from 2012-17 and Indian retail market forecast to grow at 13.23% CAGR for the same period. New Zealand retail sales are set to ...
Tags: Retail Market, Apparel
2013/14 world production is forecast at 25.6 million tons, while consumption is forecast at 24 million tons. World trade is forecast at 9 million tons, and world ending stocks are forecast at a record 19.8 million tons, or an eye-popping ...
Tags: Cotton Stocks, Textile
Traders have remained rather indecisive, as they are torn between a tight supply situation nearby that justifies firm prices until new crop arrives and a potentially bearish outlook thereafter. As a result we have a market that is stuck ...
Producers of treatment chemicals will generate revenues of $11.9 billion next year in Asia. This is the latest forecast in the continually updated McIlvaine publication: Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market. The power ...
Gildan Activewear Inc. announced its results for its third fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2013. Earnings were a record for a fiscal quarter, and were at the top end of the guidance range which the Company had most recently updated on May ...
Tags: Gildan Activewear, Apparel