The Australian dollar was trading lower late today after the country posted its widest trade deficit in nearly five years. The trade deficit for November widened to $2.6 billion from $2.4bn in October, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...
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The explosive growth in the production and sale of counterfeit goods is a crisis affecting consumers everywhere. This little understood and too-often ignored multi-billion dollar industry is a global menace, and the upcoming one-hour ...
The Australian dollar's moves yesterday reflected the differing pressures on the currency as a major international bank, HSBC, yesterday expressed concern about its long-term strength. The dollar broke through the $US1.05 level in trading ...
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It's inevitable when traveling.You find yourself drawing comparisons to home. I recently had the good fortune to travel to Germany,the Netherlands and Austria as part of a world vegetable forum sponsored by Bayer CropScience. We heard a ...
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THE Australian dollar remained close to 105 US cents after rising slightly during overseas trading. At 6.20am AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at 104.93 US cents, up slightly from yesterday’s local close of 104.82 US cents. ...
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The trade deficit for November widened to $2.6 billion, from $2.4bn in October, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. That was the biggest monthly shortfall since March 2008 and wider than analysts' expectations of $2.3bn. At 5pm AEDT ...
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DATA showing only modest growth in US jobs during December dampened expectations that the Federal Reserve will bring its bond-buying program to an end sooner than expected, weighing on the greenback and helping lift the Aussie dollar in the ...
The Australian dollar rose this morning,after pushing above 105 US cents during the US trading day. At 6.20am AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at 104.87 US cents,up slightly from yesterday's local close of 104.72 US cents. During ...
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The Australian dollar is expected to face a"difficult year"this year,as concerns about risks to the world economic environment ease and weak domestic factors come into play,according to a new report by HSBC's currency analysts. "While the ...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based TMS International Corp. the parent company of Tube City IMS Corporation, a leading provider of outsourced industrial services to steel mills globally,mill services co announced Monday that it has secured new ...
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Dr.Veysel Yayan,the Secretary General of Turkish Iron and Steel Producers Association has shared his views regarding the steel industry and the price trends in the market locally and globally. The high performance of Turkish steel ...
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IDG News Service - As the economy improves and at least some of the concerns about the so-called U.S. "fiscal cliff" are resolved, desire for new mobile, analytics and storage technology will drive IT spending this year, according to market ...
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CLP(China Light and Power)has ordered more than 100 UltraTEV Monitor systems from EA Technology,to monitor Partial Discharge(PD)activity in 33 and 11kV switchboards serving 2.3 million customers in Hong Kong. EA Technology,the ...
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Kumba final results for the year ended 31 December 2011.Record safety,exports,earnings and dividends. Commenting on the results,Kumba Iron Ore("Kumba")CEO Chris Griffith said:"Driven by export volume growth and a 26%increase in iron ...
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Friends Provident International said that UAE investors are increasingly turning to real estate as a preferred asset class. Almost half of respondents said that they expect the property market to perform strongly over the next 5 years.A ...
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