Daily purchases from China's state reserve have fallen in recent weeks amidst market perceptions that reserve sale prices may be lowered, competition from foreign cotton, and the prospect of new-crop cotton offered below the current reserve ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Textile
The all India kappas arrivals per day are approximately 70,000 bales per day for fortnight ending May 31. As per trade sources till now approximately 3 crore 60 lakh bales of kappas have arrived in the market out of the expected crop of 3 ...
Tags: Cotton, India kappas
In April of the current year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.89 million metric tons, up 4.09 percent compared to April 2013 and up 1.51 percent compared to March, ...
Tags: Steel Product, domestic sectors
On June 10, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) announced that Turkey's gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of the current year grew by 14.8 percent to TRY 407.31 billion ($184.18 billion) in current prices and by 4.3 ...
Tags: gross domestic product
In the week ending June 7, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,845,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 76.7 percent, according to a report Monday from the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). Production was ...
In April this year, the seasonally and working-day adjusted turnover in the German manufacturing industry increased by 0.5 percent compared to March, according to the preliminary data reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office ...
Tags: Metal Manufacturing, Mineral
According to official data, the Mexican government has stopped the export of about 300,000 tons of iron ore (totaling US$30 million) since March from four ships: one containing 68,000 tons, two ships with 100,000 tons each, and a fourth ...
Tags: Iron Ore Ships, iron ore
In May this year, China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 1.4 percent year on year and was down 0.1 percent month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on May 9. Meanwhile, in May ...
France's manufacturing output in April this year increased by 0.3 percent month on month, after a 0.4 percent drop in March, according to the statistics released by France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). ...
Turkey-based steel producer MMK Metalurji, a subsidiary of Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), has announced that hot dip galvanized steel sheet sales to the Turkish domestic market increased by 66 percent, while ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, Coated Steel
In the first five months this year, sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in Russia decreased by six percent year on year to 1.031 million units, according to the statistics released by the Association of European Businesses. ...
In May this year, production and sales of automotive vehicles in China amounted to 1.9758 million units and 1.9112 million units, down by 4.4 percent and 4.6 percent month on month respectively, while up 11 percent and 8.5 percent year on ...
Tags: Auto Output, automotive vehicles
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) commended Senators Brown (D-OH) and Sessions (R-AL) Wednesday for their appeal to President Obama to formulate a national strategy to address the trade-distorting practice of currency ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Chinese Currency Manipulation
In July this year, Ukraine's crude steel production is expected to increase by 2.9 percent compared to the expected June result to 2.52 million mt, according to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom. According to ...
Tags: Steel Output, crude steel
In 2013, the world's direct reduction iron (DRI) output increased by two million tons or 2.8 percent year on year to a record 75.2 million tons, even though two key producing countries, India and Venezuela, saw significant declines in ...
Tags: DRI Capacity, Steel