Corn planting is underway in the U.S. That's the good news. The bad news is as of mid-April, the pace remains painfully slow in most of the country, a veritable rerun of the start to planting season in 2013. While planting is actually ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has claimed a leadership position in point-to-point (PtP) wireless backhaul with ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, components
Led by a 6% rise in single-family starts, nationwide housing production rose 2.8% above an upwardly revised February rate of 920,000 to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 946,000 units in March, according to newly released figures from ...
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TechNavio's analysts forecast the global marine coatings market to grow at a CAGR of 11.29 percent over the period 2013-2018. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the expansion of the oil and gas market. The global ...
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Yahoo has posted a first quarter earnings decline of 20% to $311.6 million. In a trading update yesterday, the company added that revenue from display advertising increased by 2% to $409 million. Additionally, first quarter group revenue ...
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The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cotton projections for 2013/14 indicate that global 2013/14 cotton consumption is estimated at 109.5 million bales, 3 percent (3 million bales) above the preceding year. Although rising for a ...
The total market for packaged LEDs is forecast to increase in revenue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.9% from 2013 to 2018, according to Strategies Unlimited’s annual report ‘The Worldwide Market for LEDs: Market ...
Iron ore prices are likely to drop to $115/dry mt CFR China this year, lower than Q1's $120.68/dmt average, forcing as much as 70-80 million mt/year of high-cost Chinese supplies to shut, Standard Bank said Monday. Iron ore reference ...
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Canada's total crude oil output is expected to reach 3.9 million b/d in 2015, some 500,000 b/d more than the current output, driven primarily by small in-situ oil sands developments, each typically 35,000-40,000 b/d, an industry official ...
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The 2013/14 U.S. cotton production estimate was reduced this month to 12.87 million bales as indicated in the March 2014 Cotton Ginnings report; upland production was placed at 12.23 million bales while the ELS crop was estimated at 633,000 ...
TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Automotive Coatings, Adhesives, and Sealants market will grow at a CAGR of 5.59 percent over the period 2013-2018. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the growing demand for ...
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The World Steel Association (worldsteel) expects apparent steel consumption in the US to deliver a return to growth and recovery in 2014-2015, after a decrease of 0.6 percent in 2013, according to its short range outlook. Worldsteel ...
Powered by the freshly fueled gears of reviving economies, the global market for semiconductors used in industrial electronics applications overcame a serious fall in 2012 and roared back to life in 2013, boding well for an even more ...
Tags: electronics industrial, Lights, Lighting, Electronics Chip
According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel), apparent steel consumption in China is expected to slow to three percent in 2014 amounting to 721.2 million mt, after growth of 6.1 percent in 2013 on the ...
Tags: Steel Demand, steel
Strong market fundamentals lead to 30 per cent rise in investment sales volumes. Investment activity has surged to produce a $1 billion result in the first half of 2014, up from $661 million recorded in second half of 2013, according to ...
Tags: Service, Manufacturing, Economy