The United States is set to become an even more dominant market for the diamond industry in 2015. In a reversal of trends that have characterized the industry in the past few years, there has been a shift back from east to west as industry ...
Tags: Diamond Market, diamond industry
Diamantaires were happy to see the back of 2014. After all, it was a tough year in which polished diamond prices declined, accelerating the general downtrend evident since mid-2011. Therefore, there is understandably some uncertainty about ...
Overall, retail sales during the Black Friday to Christmas Eve period excluding automotive sales increased 5.5 percent in 2014, according to Mastercard Spendingpulse’s initial view on the 2014 U.S. holiday shopping season. The ...
Occupancy and revenue figures for the 2014-15 ski and snowboard season continued their upward trajectory at 19 mountain resorts in six western states last month. As of Nov. 30, “on-the-books” occupancy is up a sharp 9.7 ...
Tags: Bookings, Sporting Goods
China's State Council on Saturday pledged to speed up pricing reforms to allow the market to play a bigger role in the process and ease business burdens to invigorate the economy. While giving full consideration to the possible impact on ...
Tags: Pricing Reforms, Business Burdens
U.S. consumer confidence moved closer to the historical average of 100 points in August, according to The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which recorded a reading of 92.4 points (1985=100), up from 81.5 points in August ...
Tags: Consumer Confidence
TOKYO — The Japanese government raised its assessment of the economy’s direction this month for the first time in half a year in light of a rebound in consumer spending. “We think the reaction (after a demand surgeA ...
Tags: Japan, Electrical, Electronics
Packaging equipment manufacturing major economic indicators from Jan. to Jun., 2012 Major Economic Indicators Packaging Special Equipment Manufacturing Industry Enterprises Number (Unit) ...
Economic operation of the status quo of Chinese lighting industry in 2011 MIIT statistics of 2011 shows that the Chinese Lighting Industry produce & sales and exports maintained stable growth; however the produce & sales of fluorescent ...
Tags: Economic operation, LED Lighting
Since 2012, under the influence of sluggish external demand, the slowing domestic demand and the widen price gap between the domestic and foreign cotton market, China's textile industry continues the trend of slowing economic growth in the ...
Tags: Chinese Textile, The General Situation of Chinese Textile Industry
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for April 2014, with both carload and intermodal volume increasing compared with April 2013. Intermodal traffic in April totaled 1,316,176 containers ...
Tags: Metal Ore Volume, Railroads
A new knitwear factory is planned to be constructed in Ali-Yurt village of Russian province of Ingushetia, according to a press release from the Ministry of Construction of the Republic of Ingushetia. Ingushetia lags behind the ...
Tags: Knitwear, knitting sector
VDMA's Photonics Congress forecasts rapid growth of the sector in Germany and beyond. Industrialists and politicians mingled at Photonics Congress 2014 in Berlin. At last month’s Photonics Congress 2014, which was hosted in ...
Tags: Photonics, GDP Growth
This Editorial appears in the March 10 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Signs are increasing that the nation's economic health is steadily improving. It's not a barnburner, and there is still some ...
Tags: Transportation, Truck
The worldwide semiconductor market is set to grow 7% in 2014 following 5% growth last year, according to industry researcher IC Insights, which released its McClean Report 2014 in January. Although the outlook calls for steady improvement ...
Tags: Semiconductor Market