Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has signed a definitive ...
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China's foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest, fell by US$87.2 billion in November to US$3.44 trillion, central bank data showed yesterday, the lowest level since February 2013 and the third largest monthly drop on record. ...
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Listed lenders from China may see zero or negligible profit growth next year, with some likely to incur marginal losses, a new report said on Monday. The nonperforming loans ratio, which measures bad loans as a percentage of total loans, ...
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Dun & Bradstreet’s latest Business Expectations Survey indicates a fairly subdued outlook for the first quarter of 2016, as results continue to fall short of expectations. As the new year approaches, businesses are reporting lowered ...
LyondellBasell, one of the world's largest plastics, chemical and refining companies, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the polypropylene (PP) compounding assets of Zylog Plastalloys (Zylog) of ...
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The UN global climate negotiations in Paris starting Monday are likely to drive further investment in renewable energy, prompt a switch to electrification in heating and transport and further curb coal-fired power, Swiss bank UBS said in a ...
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The unveiling of final renewable fuel requirements for US refiners ignited a rally in gasoline futures Tuesday, helping support the rest of the oil complex. The front-month gasoline crack, basis ICE Brent, reached $13.61/b Tuesday, its ...
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At an annual awards ceremony in London attended by more than 350 guests from the UK electronic systems industry, UK-based Plessey has been named Company of the Year by the NMI (National Microelectronics Institute), the industry trade body ...
British carton board packaging firm Glossop Cartons has acquired Contact Print and Packaging for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1992, Contact Print and Packaging employs 54 people at the Stockport site, which boasts three purpose-built ...
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Chinese film director Gu Changwei is staging his solo show The Vision in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily] Film director and photographer Gu Changwei's latest production isn't at the cinemas but rather at three exhibition halls of ...
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Archaeologists clear a tomb at the excavation site of the Neolithic site at the ruins of the Longgang Temple paleoanthropological site in Hanzhong city of Shaanxi province. [Photo/Xinhua] Chinese archeologists found traces of human ...
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Beijing, October 18 (Xinhuanet Journalist Wang Youling)-The Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng said on October 18 that at present, the China-Britain trade and economic cooperation reveals a positive trend that the bilateral trade maintains a ...
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On November 2, the State Council held the TV and Telephone National Conference on Promoting the Domestic Trade Circulation Modernization in Beijing. It arranged the work of implementing the Opinions on Promoting the Domestic Trade ...
Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $2.2 trillion in the next decade by pursuing projects that could be uneconomic in the face of international action to limit climate change, UK-based financial think-tank Carbon Tracker Initiative ...
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The India market’s demands for star labelled efficient products has doubled with falling prices and increased participation of private companies, as the country follows its commitment to lower carbon footprint ahead of climate change ...
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