Commercial Metals Company announced last week financial results for its second quarter ended February 28, 2014. Net earnings attributable to CMC for the second quarter were $11.1 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.6 ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending March 29, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,820,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.7 percent. Production was 1,827,000 net tons in the ...
With the global economy on the mend, Taiwan's machinery exports for the first two months of this year totaled US$2.854 billion, up 7.5% from the same period of last year, according to the latest statistics by Ministry of Economic Affairs ...
Tags: taiwan, Machinery, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
ArcelorMittal Brasil, Brazilian subsidiary of global steelmaker ArcelorMittal, has announced its financial results for 2013, indicating that the surplus of global steel production capacity is over 570 million mt, which still presents risks ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
In order to take full advantage of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, which is likely to be finalized this year, Vietnamese textile and garment industry would have to invest more in domestic yarn and fabric production. ...
According to the data provided by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA), in February this year Japanese automobile production (including passenger cars, trucks and buses) totaled 863,397 units, increasing by 57,186 units or ...
Ukraine's National Committee for Power Regulation (NCPR), the government's energy sector regulating body, said on Monday it has moved to increase average natural gas prices for industrial consumers by 29.1% starting April 1. The committee ...
Tags: Natural Gas, gas
Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Nam?k Ekinci, chairman of the Turkish Steel Exporters' Association, stated that the antidumping duty investigation launched by the US against Turkish ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
The exports of garments from Thailand are expected to touch US$ 7.8 billion in 2014, due to signs of global economic recovery, especially in the EU countries, Mrs. Duangkamol Jiambutr, Deputy Director-General of the Department of ...
Tags: Garment Exports, apparel exports, Apparel
Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) announced that Turkey's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013 grew by 10.2 percent to TRY 1.56 trillion ($820 billion) in current prices and by four percent in constant prices to TRY 122.39 billion ($57 ...
Tags: GDP, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
"The LEGO Movie opened big and has maintained an impressive hold on the market." said Warner Bros. The LEGO Movie has become the first film to pass the $400m at the global box office in 2014. Warner Bros' animated hit has now taken ...
The Turkish scrap import market moved up Thursday after a flurry of sales by European merchants. With mills still requiring April shipments, a number of bookings were heard in the market. One was confirmed coming out of the UK a couple ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, Scrap Market
The U.S. economy grew at a 2.6 percent annual rate in the October-December quarter, slightly more than previously estimated, as consumer spending rose at the fastest pace in three years. The fourth-quarter growth rate was a bit stronger ...
Tags: U.S.economy, BMO Capital Markets
Although this week’s trading action may have felt like a victory for the bears, the chart reveals that the market has actually moved sideways in the last 15 sessions, with May closing in a tight range between 91 and 94 cents since ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Mixed Trends, balance sheet
The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan is planning to harvest more than 1.05 million tons of cotton in 2014-15 by sowing seeds on 545,000 hectares of land, reports the State News Agency of Turkmenistan. At a meeting of the Cabinet ...
Tags: Cotton, Turkmenistan, cotton seeds