Soybeans were higher on commercial and fund buying. Weekly export numbers were strong, USDA will probably increase their estimate next week, and there are concerns about weather in key growing areas of South America. There’s been more ...
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Samsung Group, South Korea’s No. 1 conglomerate, is growing more dependent on its electronics arm for its operating profit, latest market data showed Tuesday. Samsung Electronics Co., the flagship unit of the business group, ...
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), the world’s largest chip packaging and testing company, expects its first-quarter shipments to decrease 12-15% sequentially due to seasonal factors, as well as a partial shutdown of its K7 ...
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Class 8 truck orders doubled in December 2013 from both the month and the year before,making it the second biggest Class 8 order month since March 2006. "The U.S.and Canada did the'heavy lifting'for Class 8 orders in December,while Mexico ...
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China predicted to use 45 billion cubic meters of gas by 2030 As China strives to convert to cleaner energy, its liquefied natural gas production capacity will soar in 2014, with higher profits supporting more projects. Fifty-five ...
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TOKYO --- As if in lockstep, six major Japanese electronic components manufacturers had announced by Friday markedly higher profits for the nine months ended Dec. 31. Murata Mfg. Co.'s net profit jumped 140% on the year to 74.6 billion ...
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Countervailing, antidumping duties to be levied if injury to US found Chinese companies are actively responding to the latest United States anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation in the solar products field, aiming to prove they did ...
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By Kay Ledbetter Producers facing possible changes in their crop rotations due to water availability and other fluctuations in agriculture will soon have an online decision aid tool, according to DeDe Jones, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension ...
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BlackBerry’s 10.2.1 OS update includes a new incoming call screen said to be simpler. Related blackberry BlackBerry Makes Another Management Change blackberry BlackBerry Q3 Revenues, Profits Plunge blackberry BlackBerry Makes More ...
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Activist investor Carl Icahn fired off word on Tuesday that he beefed up his Apple stock holdings by a half-billion dollars as the share price dipped. "Just bought $500 mln more $AAPL shares," Icahn said in a message on Twitter. "My ...
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Sixteen leading food and beverage companies in the US sold 6.4 trillion fewer calories in the US in 2012 than they did in 2007, according to the findings of a report funded by health organisation the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). ...
In the backdrop of a weak economic scenario in Europe, German menswear fashion company Ahelrs AG has posted lower-than-expected preliminary unaudited sales and profit numbers for full year 2012-13. The company, which is one of the ...
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Spot January propane was trading at $3.95/gal early Monday at the Conway, Kansas, NGL trading hub, some 6 cents lower than Friday's assessment. Conway propane was assessed nearly $1/gal lower than on Thursday on Friday at $4.01/gal as ...
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Media are invited to join Progressive Waste Solutions president and CEO Joseph Quarin and TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky as they announce Progressive Waste's investment in TerraCycle, which will vastly increase recycling opportunities for ...
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In 2013, the aggregate gross profits of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in China amounted to RMB 6.2831 trillion ($1.0385 trillion), increasing by 12.2 percent year on year, according to data released by China's National ...