Oil futures closed out the week in higher territory Friday, boosted by a strong equities performance even as the US Dollar Index climbed to a 34-month high. NYMEX June crude settled 86 cents higher at $96.02/b, after ranging from a low of ...
Tags: Oil Futures, Strong Equities
The Romanian cement market declined 0.2 percent in 2012 owing to bad weather and an unfavorable economic context, and this year seems no better as yet. Any growth by yearend will be small, and could only come from infrastructure investments ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
As of May 20, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 72.49 million mt, indicating an increase of 585,000 mt or 0.81 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, the ...
Tags: Iron Ore Inventory, Chinese Ports
Due to the slack demand from the South Korean pipe-making industry, with no sign that Chinese domestic hot rolled coil (HRC) price stopped falling, Chinese HRC export to South Korea is facing a hard time. Currently, Chinese HRC ...
Propelled by a 25% increase in the first quarter at Vans and stronger gross margins, VF net income rose 26% to $270,417,000 from $215,216,000 for the three months ended Mar. 31 on a 2% revenue increase to $2,582,230,000 compared to ...
Tags: Vans, Outdoor&Action Sports
Market reports that China's National Energy Administration is considering a proposal to outlaw the import of some grades of lower calorific thermal coal has been greeted with a mixture of consternation and disbelief by participants in the ...
Tags: Asia Market, Thermal Coal
Import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 3.3 percent in May over the same month last year but growth could trickle to a standstill by the end of the summer, according to the monthly Global ...
Tags: NRF, Retail Import
As of May 13, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 71.905 million mt, indicating an increase of 1.095 million mt or 1.55 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China’s Xinhua News Agency. As of May ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese Ports
While retail sales were up in April, the growth rate was less than impressive based on data released today by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF). Commerce reported that April retail sales at ...
Tags: Processing Machinery, Commerce, NRF
You may not think of vinyl as your choice for eco-friendly. You may also think that vinyl and linoleum are the same thing. They are not. Linoleum is made from natural materials, whereas vinyl is man-made. Linoleum biodegrades. Whereas vinyl ...
A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves. Downdetector.com, which rolled ...
Tags: Computer Products
The sharemarket surged to its highest closing level in almost five years yesterday, with the materials sector leading relatively broad-based gains after China reported stronger than expected trade data, Wall Street hit record highs and spot ...
Tags: Stocks, China Data
Gerdau reported Tuesday net revenue of R9.2 billion (US$4.6 billion) in Q1 2013 while shipments reached 4.6 million tons and steel production was 4.4 million tons. Net income was R160 million (US$79.6 million) in the quarter, a 60 percent ...
Real steel consumption in the European Union is forecast to decline by over three percent in 2013, according to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q2 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association ...
Tags: EUROFER, Real Steel Consumption
According to the survey published last Wedsday, global consumer confidence raised in Q1, especialy the U.S, Japan and northern Europe. Nielsen's survey showed that Indonesia has become the most optimistic consumers market in the world, ...
Tags: Consumer Confidence, economy