The sharemarket ended the year on a sour note, falling for the first time in four days as the continuing US fiscal policy impasse weighed on market sentiment. However, the sell-off was limited by improved manufacturing data from China and ...
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Recently,Formosa Epitaxy Inc.(FOREPI)will ship LED devices to LCD TVs and lighting supplied by mainland Chinese manufacturers via its Japanese shareholder Mitsui&Co.,Ltd in the third quarter,according to FOREPI's Chairman F.R.Chien.And the ...
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The Federal Communications Commission is planning to launch a variety of initiatives to spur the development and adoption of broadband-enabled healthcare devices and applications, with the overriding goal of establishing mobile health ...
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The Boise-based computer chip maker Micron Technology Inc. is scaling back on its plans to develop energy-efficient lighting technology, leading to the layoff of at least 30 workers. Micron spokesman Dan Francisco confirmed the decision ...
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THE Australian dollar was slightly higher following a general election in Japan and continuing concerns about budget negotiations in the United States. At 7am AEDT on Monday, the currency was trading at 105.48 US cents up from 105.44 ...
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ArcelorMittal South Africa's steel products are continuing to play a significant role in the country's USD 90 billion infrastructure program. With electricity prices having increased an average of 25% per year over the last four years, and ...
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Industrial output will likely grow quicker this quarter,laying solid ground for Beijing to realise its target of 7.5 per cent economic growth this year. The forecast yesterday by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology spokesman ...
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With housing on the rebound in the United States, the exchange traded fund for lumber, Guggenheim Lumber (NYSE: CUT) is also rising. Jumping too is the exchange traded fund for oil, United States Oil (NYSE: USO). As the chart below reveals, ...
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PlasticsEurope director Wilfried Haensel says there are still opportunities for the region’s plastics industry, despite all the ongoing economic uncertainties facing the Eurozone. This year has brought the industry back from the ...
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BETWEEN Los Angeles and San Francisco, NRG Energy is building an engineering marvel: a compound of nearly a million solar panels that will produce enough electricity to power about 100,000 homes. The project is also a marvel in another way. ...
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BETWEEN Los Angeles and San Francisco, NRG Energy is building an engineering marvel: a compound of nearly a million solar panels that will produce enough electricity to power about 100,000 homes. The project is also a marvel in another ...
Tags: solar
The United States is spending tens of millions of federal economic stimulus dollars to replace streetlights and traffic lights nationwide with energy-efficient ones made mostly in Asia, a Tribune-Review investigation found. An exemption in ...
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The United States is spending tens of millions of federal economic stimulus dollars to replace streetlights and traffic lights nationwide with energy-efficient ones made mostly in Asia, a Tribune-Review investigation found. An ...
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Kansai Electric Power Co. has finished building Japan's largest solar power plant, a 10,000-kilowatt facility in Osaka Prefecture capable of generating enough electricity to run about 3,000 households. It has also started testing a ...
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