Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM's profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.? Sales also fell, sliding 4 percent from last year's first quarter to US$22.5 billion. The ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Franc Cardona, the marketing and international affairs director of Spanish steel producer CELSA Group, stated that margins in the long steel product trade ...
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Chinese steelmakers cut their scrap purchase prices steadily this week, following the downward trend in futures and steelmaking raw materials markets, led by Shagang Group, the country's largest scrap consumer in eastern China's Jiangsu ...
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The apparel sector of Greece ended the year 2013 on a positive note with significant rise in exports, which is for the first time since 2006, as per the data released by the Greek Association of Knitwear-Hellenic Fashion Industry ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has slashed its ex-works butadiene prices in East and South China by Yuan 1,000/mt ($163/mt) to Yuan 8,500/mt Friday, a Sinopec company source confirmed Tuesday. "I think the main reason [for ...
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February 10, 2014 Sophie Langley Retail food sales and manufacturing growth strengthening in Australia Year-on-year growth in retail food sales is at its strongest since early 2010, according to a report from food manufacturing industry ...
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The UK government believes there is much greater opportunity in developing the North Sea's remaining oil and gas resources than in the fledgling onshore shale gas sector, and plans to implement speedily recommendations laid out in a final ...
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Norway sold 9.9 billion cubic meters of gas in January, down 6% from 10.5 Bcm a year earlier and below the 10.2 Bcm in December, according to preliminary figures Friday from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. It said gas and oil ...
TUESDAY Feb. 4, 2014, 2014 -- A downward trend in antibiotic use among children may have leveled off in certain areas of the United States, a new study shows. Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reviewed ...
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US sheet steel prices are turning lower, sources said Thursday, due to a combination of lackluster demand, import concerns, and a slight weakening of discipline at the mill level. Platts lowered its hot-rolled coil assessment from ...
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The Middle East and Africa external storage market declined 8.8% year-on-year during the third quarter of 2013, according to the latest figures from IDC. The study ‘EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker’ found that ...
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Pregnancy rates continue to decline in the United States, a federal report released Thursday shows. The rate reached a 12-year low in 2009, when there were about 102 pregnancies for every 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, according to the latest ...
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However, producers may want to be more aggressive than normal in forward-pricing crops that provide acceptable profit. Projected crop budgets generally show some return to labor and management for 2014, although the price of most crops ...
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OPEC crude production continued its downward trend in November as a new series of output disruptions took hold in Libya and lower volumes from other member countries outpaced an increase of 192,000 b/d in Iraq, monthly estimates from the ...
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With continual falls in large sized backlight LED TV prices, penetration rates for direct-view type LED TV (aka Chubby TV) is expected to grow in 2014. EMC lead frame drivers have advantages in 1-3W power range, and is expected to lead the ...
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