The Chinese mainland's gold purchases from Hong Kong in 2015 may hold around this year's levels as physical demand in the world's biggest consumer remains stable and the country considers easing restrictions on imports. Net imports ...
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After improving for two months in a row in October and November, NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America declined in December, falling to 50.0. One-quarter of December’s ...
Tags: business environment, Lights
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) announced its annual fitness trend forecast based on survey responses from thousands of fitness professionals. Body weight training, high-intensity interval training, educated/experienced ...
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Just before Christmas, NSW Premier, Mike Baird, and the Environment Minister, Rob Stokes, wrote to the National Packaging Covenant Industry Association (NPCIA)’s chairman, Grant Musgrove, and Coca-Cola Amatil managing director, Barry ...
Tags: packaging waste litter, recycling, Packaging
Everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S6 The Samsung Galaxy S6 release date is fast approaching, and with 2015 now upon us, a flurry of Galaxy S6 leaks and rumours have started to surface. With the Galaxy S6 release date ...
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Chinese manufacturers signalled weaker growth momentum at the end of 2014, fresh evidence of headwinds facing the Chinese economy, a recent HSBC report showed. After adjusting for seasonal factors, the HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index ...
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Russian GDP contracted by 0.5% in November and it is the first economy contract since 2009. According the data from Russian Economic Development Ministry, Russian GDP falls 0.5% in November and increases by 0.6% in the past 11 months. ...
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China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, is estimated to grow by about 1.4 percent in December from a year earlier, the latest report from the Bank of Communications (BOC) said. The National Bureau of Statistics ...
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U.S. chain-store sales rose 2.2 percent year on year for the week that ended on December 27 and included the final shopping days before Christmas, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and Goldman Sachs. ...
Taiwan's 2015 machinery exports to see rough going. In Jan.-Nov.2014, Taiwan shipped US$19 billion of machinery, up only 6.4% year on year, with the island's machine-tool industry having exported US$3.43 billion of equipment, growing at ...
Tags: machine-tool industry, high-performance machines, Manufacturing
The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in a statement said it has deferred till further orders the procedure it had mandated earlier, to export organic cotton made textiles. Earlier, the DGFT had mandated a December 18, 2014 ...
One of Saudi Arabia’s largest food producing firms Savola Group has entered the final round of negotiations with Takween Advanced Industries for the sale of its packaging unit, Takween. Savola had announced the signing of a ...
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China's economy is likely to expand at a slower pace of 7 percent in 2015 and 7.3 percent this year, a government think tank said in a report on Monday. Due to factors such as overcapacity in some manufacturing industries, the country's GDP ...
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The prices of both imported and domestically produced LPG rebounded in East and South China this week, after falling 21-34% over the previous five weeks, supported by increasing demand and improving sentiment, trade sources said Friday, ...
Gross margin expansion and a lower average share count drove diluted earnings per share growth by 25 per cent year on year at Nike for its second fiscal quarter ended November 30, 2014. In the second quarter of fiscal 2015, net income ...
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