The sudden fall in gold prices recently has proved to be a boon to the jewellers as consumers pan India went on buying spree and as a result jewellery sales saw a huge increase of 40 to 50%, as we normally see during Akshay Tritiya and Dhan ...
Tags: Apparel, Jewellery Industry, Accessories
According to National Bureau of Statistics of China, Chinese agricultural products' price in 36 major Chinese cities declined for the third consecutive week. The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement that the average wholesale price ...
Tags: vegetables, cucumbers
Inflatable furniture has always been associated with camps, picnics, beaches and the like. But in recent times, more and more people have started using this kind of furniture in their homes. Typically, inflatable furniture is made of a ...
Tags: Inflatable Furniture, Furniture
The dollar is almost US2c lower, hurt by a big pre-dawn rally in the US dollar. At 5pm AEST, the local unit was trading at $US1.0063, down from $US1.0243 yesterday. The Australian currency fell to $US1.0047 early today, its lowest level ...
Chinese economic policy and an improving US economy appear to have achieved what the Reserve Bank couldn't this week: taking the wind out of Australia's plucky currency, which fell to 11-month lows in early trading yesterday and is expected ...
Local shares rose slightly in mixed trading yesterday as a lower Australian dollar led investors to sell banks and other high-yield plays in order to buy shares of companies that stand to benefit from a sustained fall in the exchange rate. ...
The sharemarket consolidated yesterday as high-yield plays reacted negatively to reduced hopes of further interest rate cuts following the release of stronger-than-expected domestic jobs statistics. Meanwhile, profit-taking pushed ...
Tags: Rates Forecast, economy
Kazakhstan-based mining group Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Plc. (ENRC) has announced its operational results for the first quarter of 2013. The miner registered a ferroalloy output of 364,000 mt in the first quarter this year, ...
UK retail sales values were down 2.2% on a like-for-like basis from April 2012, when they had declined 3.3% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were down 0.6%, against a 1.0% decline in April 2012. Growth was negatively ...
Tags: Apparel, Apparel Industry
Australian businesses will keep cutting their spending this year, with expectations for capital investment, employment and new credit set to fall further. The deteriorating outlook for the September quarter suggests that despite pockets ...
Sales of cross-flow membranes and equipment will exceed $10.4 billion in 2014, according to the latest projections in RO, UF, MF World Market published by the McIlvaine Company. Desalination is the biggest segment and is growing at 11 ...
Dr. A Sakthivel welcomed the move by RBI to lower the repo rates by 25 BSP. He said, On behalf of the entire Textiles Industry I welcome move by RBI to lower the repo cut by 25 bsp. These measures will spur the demand and boost the ...
Tags: AEPC Chairman, Repo Rate
The sharemarket pared an early rise as profit-taking emerged before the release of US non-farm payrolls data due overnight. Strong earnings results from Westpac and Macquarie Group, together with a jump in resources stocks, initially ...
The concept of blow-up furniture is really catching on. We have already heard of old inflatable air mattress concept. The newest twist on the idea of inflated or blow-up furniture is an inflatable sofa. Inflatable sofas, also called as air ...
Tags: Inflatable Sofa, sofa
Signs that a nascent recovery in the housing sector stumbled in March pushed the Australian dollar to its lowest since mid-April. The number of house-building permits fell 5.5 per cent in March, the most since July, curbing optimism that ...
Tags: Dollar, Housing Recovery