Despite a new oil product pricing mechanism introduced by the central government in March, China's state refiners continued to suffer in the downstream in the second quarter because of poor domestic demand, their interim results showed. ...
Tags: oil product, gasoil demand
Chill winds are sweeping the Chinese liquor (baijiu) industry, and competition in the low and middle ranks of the market will persist as the government continues a crackdown on luxury official banquets, analysts said. "We believe the ...
Tags: Distiller, Chinese Liquor
Allied Bakeries' deal to supply bread to Co-op stores has helped the grocery division of its parent company Associated British Foods (ABF) achieve 7% growth in the third quarter of its financial year. ABF's grocery division posted third ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
China's new natural gas pricing mechanism will create two separate bands of prices across the country with an average difference of 42%, although over 90% of supply will still be priced at the lower level. The National Development and ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Chemicals
ISS warns of increase in Australian Carbon Tax Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) the world's leading maritime services provider, is warning of an increase in Australian Carbon Tax on vessels from 1 July 2013. ...
Tags: Carbon Tax, Transportation
Pricing has become a major challenge for e-commerce companies, with the companies unable to arrive at the right price line for their products and services, said e-commerce experts who spoke at Evolve, a two day summit on retail and ...
Tags: Apparel
The 2013 Budget has failed Australia’s trucking businesses because it does not reverse the government’s plan to extend the carbon tax to the trucking industry, Australian Trucking Association chief executive Stuart St Clair ...
Tags: Road Transport Industry, Service, Budget
State-owned PetroChina has refuted local reports that it restricted natural gas supplies in some areas of northern China in order to force the government's hand in raising prices and accelerating gas pricing reforms. Local media, ...
Tags: PetroChina, Gas Supplies
China's National Development and Reform Commission will not adjust the regulated prices of gasoline and diesel in what would have been the first such exercise following the new pricing mechanism introduced late last month, the NDRC said ...
Japan and India will discuss the demand and supply of LNG, its pricing mechanism as well as latest trends among consumers' procurements of LNG at low prices over Tuesday-Wednesday in Tokyo, a Japanese government source said Monday. The ...
Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) has announced that it has launched coking coal futures trading as of March 22, indicating that launch of coking coal futures has great significance in improving the coal market system and playing a ...
China is considering to make changes to its oil pricing mechanism by both shortening the price review period and removing the price fluctuation limitation of a basket of crudes used to adjust retail oil product prices, the official Xinhua ...
Tags: China, Oil Pricing, Mechanism
Pakistan Daily Times reported that the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet,which recently met with Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs in the chair,approved the recommendations of its sub ...
Tags: Pakistan Daily Times, ECC, CNG, Pakistan
A report tabled by the Comptroller and Auditor General suggests, iron ore miner National Mineral Development Corporation has suffered revenue loss of INR 745.94 crore during 2007-10 for not revising the domestic prices of the steel making ...
Tags: Iron ore pricing, Iron ore, iron ore miner, steel output
Business Line cited the Steel Ministry saying that NMDC would review its pricing mechanism. This is the fallout of the CAG report tabled on December 20th Thursday, the public sector iron ore miner has incurred losses of more than INR 1,500 ...
Tags: NMDC, pricing mechanism, CAG, iron ore miner