Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones during the fourth quarter of last year,as the company's Devices&Services unit exceeded sales expectations,according to preliminary data. Nokia currently estimates that Devices&Services net sales in ...
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Significant overcapacity and low LED substrate prices will affect the profitability and viability of many sapphire players in 2013 and beyond. So says a new market report 'Sapphire Substrates 2013' from analyst company Yole ...
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More frugal consumers are evolving the way they shop in response to the austere economic environment, Sainsbury's CEO Justin King has suggested. Sainsbury's booked a 0.9% increase in third-quarter like-for-like sales excluding fuel this ...
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(Muscat, Oman) -- On the back of increased government spending on infrastructure and mega projects, demand for cement is expected to grow at higher pace this year. In the Oman budget for 2013, RO 600 million has been earmarked for roads ...
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Sainsbury's today (9 January) reported that third-quarter like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, came in at 0.9%. While this represents a slow-down from the company's previous 31 consecutive quarters of growth, Sainsbury's was able to ...
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Food price inflation is expected to stabilise over the next few months – despite recent reports of big food price increases from Waitrose – according to market research organisation BRC-Nielsen. Sainsbury reported total ...
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Woodside Petroleum's Browse LNG project could end up being developed in a lower-cost environment after 2014, now that the joint venture partners are aligned for the first time, analysts at the Hong Kong office of Bernstein Research said in ...
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Sales growth lower than 2011; Toys suffer at the hands of electronic goods and tablets, says BRC. This December UK retail sales were up only 0.3 per cent like-for-like, versus a 2.2 per cent like-for-like growth in December 2011. Total ...
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China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan is going to release its prices for steel wires and bars for March. It’s expected that CSC might hike its prices for steel wires and bars since the downstream screw ...
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Chung Hung Steel, one of the major carbon flat re-rolling mills and the subsidiary of Taiwan's China Steel Corp. (CSC), has announced that its sales revenues in December totaled NT$4.005 billion, rising by 28.2% from a month ago. In ...
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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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Surging derivatives trade on the Australian Securities Exchange last month helped offset the continued decline in equities trading as the market operator searches for new growth business. Investors are continuing to treat shares with ...
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The sharemarket struggled to gain traction yesterday as investors traded cautiously after seven straight weeks of gains. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 6.5 points,or 0.1 per cent,at 4717.3.It hit a 19-month high of 4750.7 in early ...
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Swiss meat processing company Bell Group said it saw "stable" sales development in 2012, despite a "difficult" market environment. In the 12 month period, sales edged up 0.4% to CHF2.52bn (US$3.29bn), the company reported today (7 ...
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Irving, Texas-based Commercial Metals Company announced Monday its financial results for fiscal Q1 2013, ended November 30, 2012. Net earnings attributable to CMC for the first quarter were $49.7 million on net sales of $1.8 billion. This ...
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