China's state-run media are trying to do something the securities industry has failed to accomplish for much of the past three years: get the world's biggest population to buy more stocks. The official Xinhua News Agency published at ...
Tags: Stocks, China economy
As cooler-than-normal temperatures continue to keep crop stress at bay in the absence of measurable widespread rainfall in the Corn Belt over the last two weeks, Mother Nature's expected to add to the weather-based bearish pressure on the ...
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LPG prices were mixed in East China this week, rising in Jiangsu province and falling in both Shanghai and Zhejiang province, trade sources in the regions said Friday. Propane-rich imported LPG was heard traded at Yuan 5,900-6,000/mt ...
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Seaborne iron ore prices reversed losses Tuesday, as bullish expectations on Chinese economic performance provided stronger support for the steel raw material. Platts assessed the 62% Fe IODEX $0.75/dmt higher on day at $96/dmt CFR North ...
As of July 7, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 114.77 million mt, up 130,000 mt or 0.11 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on June 30, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on July 8. As of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
European refining margins have recovered from their lows of last month, driven by a pick-up in products markets, especially jet fuel and gasoline, following run cuts throughout the region, according to traders. "Demand for products ...
Tags: Gasoline, pick-up in products, jet fuel
Oops, we did it again. Another solid USDA export report and the market tanked. The beginning of the week the market was on a tear to the upside but the market reaction to this “bullish” report turned the fundamentals on their ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Cotton Market
Bearish factors weighing on the Chinese market were offsetting any positive sentiment on Indian demand for Indonesian thermal coal, sources said Thursday. A Singapore-based source for a major producer said he did not share in the bullish ...
Tags: Chinese market, thermal coal
The NYMEX July natural gas futures contract closed 25.4 cents higher to a $4.762/MMBtu settlement on Thursday after the US Energy Information Administration reported a lower injection to storage inventories than most expected, prompting ...
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Russian aluminum producer Rusal said Monday that it is bullish on the near term prospects for the aluminium market and believes that the price is undervalued. "A number of influential factors that have emerged in recent weeks cause the ...
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Has declined in the past few months , sales of electronic cigarette , no exception in April . In fact, according to Nielsen , and ended on May 10, 2014 between the C-STORE electronic cigarette sales of the dollar has decreased for the first ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
China’s electronics manufacturers are expected to purchase US$34 million worth of components on average in 2014, representing a substantial increase of 26 percent from US$27 million in 2013. Manufacturers purchased 60 percent of ...
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Futures prices continued to tumble this week, as negative fundamental and technical factors exerted additional downward pressure on the market. Abundant rainfall in West Texas over the Memorial Day weekend could potentially add 1.5-2.0 ...
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Sentiment in India following the general elections appears bullish, boding well for the Indonesian thermal coal market, but there is no near-term catalyst being seen to drive Chinese demand up, sources said Friday. "It would still require ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Mineral
US ethanol stocks for the week ended May 16 shed 312,000 barrels to a four-week low of 16.99 million barrels despite a production rise of 3,000 b/d to 925,000 b/d, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. The stocks draw ...
Tags: ethanol, Gulf Coast stocks