China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said that the average steel prices rose by 0.4% week on week during last week ended on July 7th. Among them, the prices for hot rolled strips with sizes of 145mm x 2.5mm rose by 0.7%; those for ...
Tags: Steel Prices, Mineral
Indonesia is determined to get a market price for LNG exported from the Tangguh project to China's CNOOC, a senior official with upstream regulator SKK Migas said Monday. "The new price cannot be below the market price. It has to be ...
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Speaking exclusively to Packaging News, Ball Europe Packaging Europe president Colin?Gillis said: "The London Metal Exchange [LME] sets the price for aluminium. The parties who set the premiums for shipping and warehousing have raised the ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Digital printing
Shipments of television sets in the United States declined by 11 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared to one year earlier, according to a TV Systems Intelligence update from information and analytics provider IHS. U.S. TV ...
Tags: TV Shipments, Prices, US
According to a report released by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in April this year the import price of iron ore increased by 1.5 percent year on year in Germany, while it was up by 4.8 percent as compared to March this ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The price spread between Asian styrene monomer and petrochemical feedstock naphtha hit an eight-year high of $819.90/mt Wednesday on short covering amid low spot inventory in China, Platts data showed. SM prices jumped $10.50/mt day on ...
Tags: Chemicals, petrochemical, styrene monomer
A new study by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) reflects a 9-percent increase in motorcycle deaths in 2012 to about 5,000 fatalities for the year. That marks the 14th year out of 15 that deaths have risen. The GHSA report ...
Tags: Motorcycle, Transportation
The ratio of the Gulf Coast normal butane assessment to the front-month NYMEX crude contract is at 57.9% Friday morning, the lowest level since late 2008, Platts data showed, in part due to the deployment summer gasoline specs. The ratio, ...
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A rise in commodity prices has helped push the Australian dollar back above the $US1.03 level. At 5pm AEST, the local unit was trading at $US1.031, up from $US1.0246 on Wednesday. CMC Markets foreign exchange dealer Tim Waterer said the ...
Reflecting a major shift in the global solar market after four years of severe erosion, prices for solar modules in the key Europe market are rising due to number of factors, including the newly restored balance between supply and demand. ...
Tags: Solar Module Prices, Solar Module, Lighting
According to data, Taiwan's export prices of steel bars averaged at NT$21,806/ton, rising by NT$307/ton from a month ago. Also, the country's export volumes of steel bars surged substantially by 60.1% from a month ago to 29,384 tons in ...
The March average retail pricing of retrofit 40W and 60W LED light bulbs increased in Japan while other markets saw prices fall compared to February. According to Digitimes Research, the March average retail prices of retrofit 40W and 60W ...
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China is considering to make changes to its oil pricing mechanism by both shortening the price review period and removing the price fluctuation limitation of a basket of crudes used to adjust retail oil product prices, the official Xinhua ...
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It is within IT's power to ensure horse meat can never again contaminate products marketed as "beef". This is the view of Sarah Leslie, CIO of Iglo Foods Group, which operates the Birds Eye brand in the UK. "With all manufacturing, IT is ...
Tags: horse meat, Birds Eye, food safety
Prompt prices gained value Thursday morning on the UK's NBP gas trading hub as demand rose, storage facilities were heavily utilized and temperature forecasts were revised lower. At 1200 London time, same- and next-day contracts were ...
Tags: gas trading hub, UK, natural gas