Oil prices were little changed Monday as traders awaited U.S. crude inventories data for last week. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Energy Department' s statistical arm, will on Wednesday release its report covering U. S. ...
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China's independent teapot refineries in eastern Shandong province have significantly expanded their capacities in the last few years ahead of an end-2013 deadline set by the government to eliminate smaller plants. In an effort to cool ...
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Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Toshimitsu Motegi, Thursday asked visiting US energy secretary Ernest Moniz to move forward the two countries' bilateral agreement on methane hydrate cooperation, a METI source said. The ...
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Most domestic steelmakers are seeing an improvement in their third-quarter performance. Fifteen of the 20 listed steel companies that issued third quarter reports made profits, as opposed to last year, when up to 90 percent of the steel ...
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Mexico's integrated steelmaker, Altos Hornos de México (Ahmsa), reported a net loss of 520 million Mexican pesos (US$40.3 million) in the third quarter of 2013. This compares with a net loss of 344 million Mexican pesos (US$26.6 ...
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Brazil-based steel producer Gerdau SA has reported its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of the current year. In the third quarter, the net profit of the company was R$642 million ($292 million), up 57.4 ...
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Metalloinvest, a leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer based in Russia, has announced its operational results for the third quarter of the current year. Accordingly, in the given quarter Metalloinvest's iron ore ...
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Major Indian steelmaker JSW Steel (JSW) has announced its financial and operational results for the second quarter ended September 30 of the financial year 2013-14, posting a net loss of INR 1.15 billion ($18.7 million), compared to a net ...
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U.S. crude-oil futures dropped to a four-month low Wednesday after government data showed inventories rose more than expected last week. The Energy Information Administration said crude oil stocks rose by 4.1 million barrels, compared ...
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Oil giant PetroChina Company Limited on Tuesday announced a 9.6-percent increase in its net profit for the first three quarters of 2013 as the company managed to adapt to market changes. Net profit during the Jan.-Sept. period came in at ...
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State-owned PetroVietnam and Rosneft are expected to sign two upstream pacts and a crude oil sales deal during Russian President Vladimir Putin to Vietnam early next month, PetroVietnam said Wednesday. One is to do with PetroVietnam's ...
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The world's second biggest steelmaker Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced its financial results for the first half ended September 30 of the financial year 2013-14, posting a net profit of JPY 115.6 billion ...
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On October 29, Anhui Province-based Chinese steelmaker Maanshan Iron and Steel Co. (Masteel) announced that in the first three quarters of the current year its operating revenue amounted to RMB 56.392 billion ($9.245 billion), down 5.93 ...
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In September this year, Japan's industrial production increased 1.5 percent from the previous month, showing a month-on-month increase for the first time in two months, while output increased by 5.4 percent from September in the previous ...
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According to a new report from Frost and Sullivan, the Indian automotive coatings market has witnessed growth over the past two to three years due to growth of the automotive industry, both in the new and used car segments. Increased ...