Despite a major surplus in the LED market, top suppliers are increasing their capital spending and production because of government incentives and in order to cash in on an expected boom in the lighting business, according to research firm ...
Good rains that are likely to remain strong for the rest of the monsoon are set to keep cement demand under pressure in the ongoing July-September quarter. While demand for cement between May-end and June was supported by pre-monsoon ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) recently announced the release of a policy on bans and fees for recyclable paper and plastic bags approved during its July Board Meeting. The policy is in response to increased efforts ...
Tags: Recycling Industries
Cotton Outlook's world production number for 2012/13 has been raised by 278,000 tonnes, leading to greater carryover in the new season. This is partly due to the emergence of a bumper crop in India. The 2013/14 global production figure ...
Traders have remained rather indecisive, as they are torn between a tight supply situation nearby that justifies firm prices until new crop arrives and a potentially bearish outlook thereafter. As a result we have a market that is stuck ...
Despite a major surplus in the light-emitting diode (LED) market, the top suppliers are increasing their capital spending and production because of government incentives and in order to cash in on an expected boom in the lighting business, ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
Despite a major surplus in the light-emitting diode (LED) market, top suppliers are increasing their capital spending and production because of government incentives and in order to cash in on an expected boom in the lighting business. ...
Tags: LED, light-emitting diode, Electrical, Electronics
Manulife Financial has inked a contract to dispose of its life insurance business in Taiwan to CTBC Life Insurance Co (CTBC Life), a subsidiary of CTBC Financial. The acquisition of insurance operations of Manulife in Taiwan, which ...
Tags: Life Insurance, CTBC Life
The prices at which cotton is sold in Ethiopian markets is comparatively lesser than the rates quoted in international markets. In March this year, cotton was sold at US$ 3.95 a kilo in international markets, whereas the local growers ...
Tags: Cotton Production, Lower Prices
Natural rubber surpluses and poor demand, especially from China, will weigh on spot prices for the commodity, Germany's Commerzbank said in a report issued Tuesday. "Several years of supply surpluses on the global rubber market have ...
Tags: Natural rubber, Chemicals
OPEC would need to cut production sometime in the second half of 2013 or early 2014 to stave off "a large drop in prices," Kuwait's leading bank said in a report over the weekend. In its latest economic bulletin, released late Sunday, the ...
Tags: Crude Output, Kuwait Bank
The first estimate for the euro area (EA17) trade in goods balance with the rest of the world in May 2013 gave a 15.2 billion euro surplus, compared with +6.6 bn in May 2012. The April 20132 balance was +14.1 bn, compared with +3.3 bn in ...
Tags: economy
Chinese banks bought less foreign exchanges than they sold in its bank-to-client forex transactions in June, registering a deficit of $400 million, latest data showed Monday. It is the first such deficit since September, according to the ...
South Korea exported textiles worth US$ 2.5 billion in the first six months of the current year, showing a fall of 0.8 percent compared to exports made during the corresponding period of last year, according to the data released by the ...
Tags: Textile Exports, overall exports
According to the related information, the preliminary accounting results of GDP for the first half of 2013 are as follows: Preliminary Accounting Results of GDP for the First Half of 2013 Absolute Value ...