April 2013, the Secretariat's projected price for the current season was 118 cents per pound. Since then ICAC's projected price has plummeted, and the current midpoint of the forecast range is 88. China's reserve and import policies also ...
In April 2013, the Secretariat’s projected price for the current season was 118 cents per pound. Since then ICAC’s projected price has plummeted, and the current midpoint of the forecast range is 88. China’s reserve and ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, import policies
September bikes sales at IBDs weren't quite so bad asinitially reported. Leisure Trends has corrected and restated its RetailTrak IBD sales summary for the month. "Shortly after we published September data last week, we noticed anomalies ...
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been accused of “horrendous treatment” of some small firms, after it allegedly wrongly classified sound businesses in a high risk category in order to boost revenue. RBS has been accused of ...
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For China Mobile executives, it seems like just yesterday that the mobile carrier was the only game in town. The company, the world’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, dominated the industry for most of the past decade. With ...
Tags: China Mobile, 4G Services
I keep hearing, even among some in the alternative media, that the overpopulation of humans on our planet is a myth because "all the people in the world could fit in the state of Texas." Sure they can, but then where would they pee? ...
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Eastern Europe used to be regarded by Western European coatings producers as the buoyant market on their doorstep – in which demand could be depended upon to boost their sales especially at times of sluggish domestic growth. Now, ...
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The Group 3 ULSD differential plummeted Tuesday, down 2.45 cents/gal to NYMEX November ULSD futures minus 9.25 cents/gal -- the lowest level the differential has been since April when the ULSD contract succeeded the former heating oil ...
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The April switch in the NYMEX basis for distillates to ULSD from heating oil has led to decreased volatility in the Gulf Coast ULSD differential, the most liquid product Platts assesses in the Americas. The specification for the NYMEX ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has quantified just how bad business is at the moment, as users abandon its once-dominant platform. The company said it plans to record a GAAP net operating loss during the July to September quarter ...
Tags: Blackberry, smartphone, Consumer Electronics
The outlook for coatings producers in Europe has suddenly brightened after prospects for higher sales and profits appeared to be gloomy earlier in the year. The financial results of some leading players among coatings producers and raw ...
Tags: Construction, Coatings
PV market 'reaches turning point' thanks to Asia demand 22 Aug 2013 Solarbuzz sees demand in China and Japan doubling in the second half of the year. PV demand in the Asia-Pacific region PV demand from the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region ...
Buoyed mainly by rise in demand, particularly from western markets, textile and clothing exports from Pakistan surged 10.96 percent in July 2013 over July 2012, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data show. According to the data, ...
Tags: Textile Exports
Laminate flooring is a segment growing in usage and profitability in some areas, but losing ground in others. This is among the findings gathered through the 2013 Floor Trends Laminate Market Study, conducted by parent company's BNP Media's ...
Tags: Laminate, Construction
Microsoft will start selling its struggling Surface devices to business customers abroad via channel partners on Thursday. The move builds on a similar effort Microsoft launched in July to tap distributors and resellers to push Surface ...
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