China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 0.8 percent year on year in January, the slowest rise in more than five years, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Tuesday. Food prices, which account for nearly ...
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Unit shipments of LED lamps and luminaires are expected to total 10.7 billion from 2014 through 2023, according to the report 'Energy Efficient Lighting for Commercial Markets' from Navigant Research. As new LED products have reached the ...
Tags: Lighting market, LED Lamp
Consumer confidence in Australia is fuelling the rise of ‘savvy shopping’, according to findings from market research organisation Nielsen. Nielsen said Australian consumers were optimistic about their buying habits over the ...
Prices of raw materials such as iron ore, coal, crude oil and refined oil have been hitting record low prices on the global market, but import volumes into China. Although the trade balance has continued to be in excess of exports over ...
Tags: Commodity Imports, raw materials
China's central bank seems to have moved to stabilize the yuan despite mounting market sentiment that the currency has been toward the upper limit of its daily trading band for the past week. The reference rate the People's Bank of China ...
Australia saw a rise of 1.9 per cent in both the volume and value of wine exports in 2014, according to the latest Wine Export Approval Report, released by the Australian Grape and Wine Authority (AGWA). Premium wine segments saw ...
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U.S. jewelry and watch sales across all channels closed out the year with disappointing results in December as sales fell 1.6 percent year on year to $15.245 billion, according to preliminary data. Furthermore, the government revised ...
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Beer sales in the UK have increased by 1.3%, after nine consecutive years of decline during which beer sales dropped by 24%. According to British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA), the surge in beer sales comes after two duty cuts on alcohol ...
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Shipments of smartphones by China-based vendors declined 8.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2014, affected by weaker than expected sales for some brand vendors, according to Digitimes Research. For the first quarter of 2015, ...
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There were ten out of twelve months of increasing demand for design services in 2014, and the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) points to a healthy outlook for the nonresidential construction industry. As a leading economic indicator of ...
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The latest figures from the British Coatings Federation show that for the second consecutive year, paint sales have outperformed GDP, with an increase of 5 percent in volume during 2014, against economic growth of 3 percent. ...
For fiscal second-quarter 2015 (ended 28 December 2014), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $413.2m, down 3.4% on $427.7m last quarter but similar to $415.1m a year ago and in the upper half of the target range of $400-420m ...
Tags: LED Demand, LED Lighting Offsets, Electrical
Coal provides nearly two thirds of China's energy, but for mining companies, this winter could not be more chilly. The government has done its best to save the day, but it is not enough to force up the price of coal, even in the short ...
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A group of bipartisan business and government leaders released a report Friday that looks at the economic effects climate change is likely to bring to the Midwest, including the region’s farmers, and concludes that in some of the ...
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Liqueurs and spirits producer Rémy Cointreau has reported slump in consolidated sales for first nine months of the current financial year to €740.9m, down 12.4% from €845.7m in 2013. The company generated €269.1m in ...
Tags: Liqueurs, Agriculture