Domestic cement sales in Indonesia fell 5.8% y/y to 3.3 million t in August 2013. Cement sales fell a more drastic 32% month-on-month, but it should be noted that a two-week holiday in August following Ramadan would have significantly ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Economic experts are calling 2010 – 2020 the Low Growth Decade. Chronically high unemployment in the United States, slowing growth in a number of other countries, an aging infrastructure and a lack of business confidence are holding ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Reportedly, global steel giant ArcelorMittal cuts its 2013 core profit guidance this Thursday on weaker demand and lower raw material prices. According to ArcelorMittal that the group's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and ...
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Asahi Kasei Group announces results for 1st quarter fiscal year ending June 30, 2013. Overview of Consolidated Results 1. Consolidated group results Although the US economy showed signs of recovery with improving employment during the ...
Tech earnings this week highlighted the importance of mobile communications to IT, as companies including Apple, Samsung, Facebook, AT&T and Texas Instruments reported mixed results for the quarter ending in June. Apple and Samsung ...
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There are two ways analysts report hiring trends in the tech: Some focus on the half-empty, others on the half-full. For the half-empty view, there is this new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which claims that layoffs in ...
Tags: Computer Products, IT economy, telecommunications industries
Apple's iPhone sales are sputtering as rival smartphone makers ramp up their offerings, a market research firm says. The survey by IHS iSuppli said smartphones are still going strong around the world, but that Apple is lagging. "Apple's ...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Consumer Electronics
Total revenue for Taiwan-listed LED makers fell from NTD10.96bn in May to NTD10.6bn in June, as the LED market was affected by declining demand for backlight application and stocktaking, according to LEDinside (a subsidiary of industry ...
Tags: LED Market, LED Backlights
China’s real estate market remained strong in the first half of the year on healthy housing demand, despite government market controls and slowing growth, The Wall Street Journal reported. Data released by the National Bureau of ...
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China's service sector in June grew too slowly to counteract a wider loss of momentum in China’s economy, Reuters reported. Numbers released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed service PMI at 53.9, a 9 month low, while a ...
Tags: Service Sector, Domestic Demand
China's purchasing managers' index (PMI), a primary gauge of manufacturing growth, declined in June to the slowest reading in four months, Bloomberg reported, citing official data released today. The PMI declined to 50.1 last month from ...
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Australian stocks finished lower as investors sold off mining stocks due to weaker commodity prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 38.3 points, or 0.78 per cent, lower at 4888.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 40.3 ...
Tags: Commodity Price, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton
Australian shares have opened half a percentage point weaker as falling commodity prices hit mining stocks, and banking shares rally. At 10.30am AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 26.6 points, or 0.54 per cent, at 4900 points. ...
Tags: Stocks, Mining Stocks
LeapFrog enjoyed a healthy 40 per cent growth in March YTD, according to new data released by NPD. The impressive figure means that LeapFrog has maintained its position as the eighth biggest toy manufacturer in the UK, with the firm ...
Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip business unit in an effort to break away from its heavy reliance on the slumping PC market. ...
Tags: AMD, Chip Business, PCs