European coatings companies have been hoping that this year would bring a revival in their domestic markets as the European Union economies, particularly those in the eurozone, started to show signs of recovery around mid-2013. But the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
UK NBP wholesale gas prices eased Thursday morning while retaining some risk premium relating to tensions between Russia and Ukraine. At 11:00 London time, the within-day contract was valued at 51.20 pence/therm, down by 0.25 p/th, and ...
Tags: gas network, LNG tankers, LNG
The top natural gas analyst at Jefferies raised his 2014 gas price forecast 8% Thursday, citing a much higher than anticipated winter price in the first quarter and the end of coal's ability to keep gas prices range-bound. "The era of too ...
Tags: natural gas, analyst, Coal
U.S. cotton estimates include lower production and ending stocks compared with last month. Production is reduced 320,000 bales to 12.9 million based on USDA's final Cotton Ginnings report, released March 25. Domestic mill use and exports ...
The North Sea spot butane market has been inactive due to a combination of thin demand and limited availability, according to industry sources. North Sea butane is used in Northwest Europe either by the gasoline related sector in the ...
Tags: Butane Market, butane, mixed butane
According to the report 'Gallium Nitride (GaN) Semiconductor Devices (Discrete & IC) and Substrate Wafer Market by Technology, Application, Product, Device, & by Geography - Forecast & Analysis to 2013–2022' from MarketsandMarkets, ...
Tags: semiconductor, Electrical, Electronics
According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel) for 2014 and 2015, the worldsteel Economics Committee has revised down its global apparent steel consumption growth forecast to 3.1 percent from the growth ...
Tags: Apparent Steel Use, Worldsteel
Global consumption of packaged LED chips used in signage/professional displays will rise at an average annual rate of 11.9% from nearly $2bn in 2014 to $3.56bn in 2019, forecasts a new study from market research firm ElectroniCast ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, LED chips, LED Lighting
Import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 6.1 percent in April, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. ...
March 2014 was a good month for heavy and medium-duty truck orders, according to two reports from freight forecasters. The freight forecast firm FTR says that at the end of March in North America, a total of 27,139 Class 8 trucks were ...
Tags: Truck, Transportation
According to a nationwide survey and analysis from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Americans' satisfaction with their shopping, buying, and consumption experiences is at a 20-year high. "A satisfied customer is often a ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Gold is lacking direction ahead of key US employment data due Friday, with mixed views on physical demand. ANZ said in a gold report that "the $100/oz decline in gold over the past two weeks was largely the unwinding of the 'safehaven' ...
Tags: Service, employment data, Economy
According to the Japanese Ministry of Trade (METI), Japanese demand for crude steel in the second quarter of the current year is expected to total 27.01 million mt, decreasing by 1.2 percent from the first quarter output forecast, with an ...
Tags: Crude Steel, steel exports, motor vehicles
New solar photovoltaic (PV) demand added during the first quarter of 2014 exceeded 9GW, which was 35% more than the previous first-quarter record, set in 2013. Every quarter in 2014 is forecast to reach new highs, with trailing 12-month ...
Tags: PV Industry, end-market demand
Gold could have further to go on the downside as physical buying is still lacking, according to a research note published by Swiss bank UBS Wednesday. "Gold reached our one-month forecast of $1,280 this week. Despite its $100 decline from ...
Tags: Gold, Physical Buying, physical demand