A federal district judge has issued injunctions against four California companies and six individuals barring them from importing, selling and distributing children's products containing hazardous levels of lead and phthalates and small ...
Tags: Service, Children's Products, Toy
In 2013, the world's direct reduction iron (DRI) output increased by two million tons or 2.8 percent year on year to a record 75.2 million tons, even though two key producing countries, India and Venezuela, saw significant declines in ...
Tags: DRI Capacity, Steel
US-based multinational financial services corporation Morgan Stanley has reduced its iron ore price forecast for the current year, expecting a further decline in 2015 as well, since the seaborne supply growth has been faster than expected. ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Morgan Stanley
Japanese spot import prices of high-carbon ferrochrome rose this week as Indian producers cut output amid a decline in domestic chrome ore feedstock supplies, market sources said Friday. Platts assessed the spot price of high-carbon lumpy ...
Illinois Basin market sentiment was mixed this week, as some participants said they see prices rising on heightened domestic demand, partly to rebuild stockpiles, while others took a persistently bearish view that increased production in ...
US coal stockpiles fell to 126 million st for the week ending Friday, down 32% from the five-year average, Bentek Energy said. Bentek, a unit of Platts, said lower coal production and higher coal consumption during the week meant US coal ...
Tags: Coal Stockpiles, natural gas
US commercial crude stocks rose 1.45 million barrels to 383.91 million barrels in the reporting week that ended June 6, American Petroleum Institute data showed Tuesday. Analysts surveyed Monday had been expecting a 1.2 million-barrel ...
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Despite its many advantages, natural gas is losing ground globally to its rivals while buyers and sellers struggle to agree on what constitutes a fair price, the International Energy Agency said in a report published Tuesday. In its ...
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Spot prices of iron ore for export from Iran continued to fall because of low demand from China, industry sources said Sunday. Prices for 61-62% Fe magnetite fines slipped by $2/dry mt in the last week to $57/dmt FOB Bandar Abbas, south ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese Demand
U.S. corn ending stocks came in slightly higher in Wednesday's USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, while soybean ending stocks are seen slightly lower from last month's estimate amid reports that crop ...
Tags: Corn, Soybean, Agriculture, Food
China's producer price index (PPI) contracted 1.4 percent year on year in May, following a 2-percent decline in April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Tuesday. The index edged down 0.1 percent in May from the ...
Lindt is gaining popularity in the chocolate block segment Although Australians have maintained a good appetite for chocolate, not quite as many Australians are eating blocks of chocolate as they used to, according to findings from market ...
Wednesday of last week ? monthly meeting, the CTA board, a government agency, to include a ban on electronic cigarettes is expected. He said believes spokesman for the CTA to evaporation agency smoking policy, and prohibits its ...
Tags: smoking policy, Health, electronic cigarette, e-cigarette, e cigarette
Invented in China in 2003 with the idea to revolutionize the world of smoking , the electronic cigarette has become a high-profile star ten years later . Currently , it is often in the news . Everyone also knows the dangers of tobacco but ...
Has declined in the past few months , sales of electronic cigarette , no exception in April . In fact, according to Nielsen , and ended on May 10, 2014 between the C-STORE electronic cigarette sales of the dollar has decreased for the first ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics