Offers for China's domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 slipped, affected mainly by weaker aluminum ingot prices, while the demand remained steady, seeing no significant change from the previous week, industry sources said. Domestic offers ...
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China is sending "encouraging" messages on climate change issues, and the country has "a huge amount" to teach the world in this area, said Andrew Steer, president and chief executive officer of the World Resources Institute. Commenting ...
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Japan's scrap aluminum prices have risen by 5-8% from a month ago due to tightening supply, local trade sources said Tuesday. Prices for telik, used by secondary aluminum alloy smelters, were heard in the range of Yen 135-140/kg ...
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The Australian share market has outperformed others in the Asian region, as strength in the banking sector pushed it higher. Commonwealth Bank shares closed at a record high, and its three rivals also posted strong gains. That helped ...
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According to the Japanese Ministry of Trade (METI), Japanese demand for crude steel in the third quarter of the current year is expected total 28 million mt, unchanged from the third quarter output forecast made in the second quarter, with ...
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The unveiling of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's long-awaited growth strategy did little to stem the recent slide in Japanese stocks, with the Nikkei 225 closing down 3.8 per cent yesterday. And analysts warned that the measures announced -- ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Distributors Association (ODD), in 2012 the domestic passenger car and light vehicle market shrank by 10 percent compared to 2011, with sales declining to 777,761 units. In ...
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Asian aromatics hit all-time highs this week on shrinking supplies and rising feedstock costs. Toluene and styrene monomer spot prices set new records Wednesday, assessed at $1,388.50/mt FOB Korea and $1,674/mt FOB Korea respectively while ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Distributors Association, in the first 11 months of this year the domestic passenger car and light vehicle market shrank by 10.1% compared to the same period last year with ...
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(i) GDP In 2005, the GDP of Xinjiang reached RMB 260.4 billion yuan, 19% of which was produced by the primary industry, 44.7% by the secondary industry and 36.3% by the tertiary industry. The per capita GDP was RMB 13,108 yuan, equal to ...
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The Chinese government's latest move to combat tax evasion by imposing a consumption tax on MTBE and aromatics is likely to raise gasoline blending costs and make imports of finished gasoline relatively more cost-effective, industry sources ...
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Asian solvent-grade mixed xylenes prices surged $22/mt week on week to a 53-month high of $1,260/mt CFR China Friday on firm demand and low inventory in China over the past three weeks, according to Platts data. The last time the marker ...
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European reformate prices have dropped sharply as the Europe-China reformate arbitrage route has closed following a drop in domestic gasoline prices in China, sources said this week. Last week, the Chinese government decreased domestic ...
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China Automobile Trading Co., Ltd., an affiliate of SINOMACH, recently released the “Annual Report on China’s Imported Automobile Market 2011” and offered in-depth professional analysis of the status of China’s ...
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