Washington – Sales at CE and appliance retailers fell 4.7 percent to $8.1 billion in January as severe winter weather compounded soft demand. According to the U.S. Commerce Department’s monthly sales projections, total U.S. ...
Ovum, suggests that the decline in High Street shopping will continue if retailers do not adapt to the changing tastes of their customers. High Street retailers are being urged to get closer to their customers and improve their shopping ...
LPG prices in South China surged Yuan 300-600/mt ($49-98/mt) this week as supply fell and demand increased, domestic traders said Friday. Imported LPG, with a propane and butane ratio of 80:20, was heard traded in the range of Yuan ...
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First production from the Papua New Guinea LNG project is now expected in the third quarter of this year, Australian joint venture partner Santos said Friday as it reported its financial results for 2013. Santos holds 13.5% of the ...
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According to the latest report from IHS, the 2013 global market for industrial electronics semiconductors was a healthy year, with overall revenue up from a disappointing drop from 2012. The worldwide industrial electronics chip revenue for ...
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Activist investor Carl Icahn fired off word on Tuesday that he beefed up his Apple stock holdings by a half-billion dollars as the share price dipped. "Just bought $500 mln more $AAPL shares," Icahn said in a message on Twitter. "My ...
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The Washington Post: Obamacare Breeds Distrust Of Liberalism For President Obama, the state of the political union ... could be better. It is not only that the president's political support is diminished; it is diminished, in large part, ...
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Medtech giant St. Jude Medical announced a major reorganization and leadership changes on Tuesday. The Little Canada, MN–based company says its two operating divisions will be integrated into one research and development ...
Zurich, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2014 – ABB said its fourth-quarter 2013 results were adversely impacted mainly by charges for storm-related project delays and some operational issues in the Power Systems (PS) division. Additional ...
The traditional microwave meal was always associated with TV dinners that could easily and conveniently be whipped up in two minutes. Just as our palates have improved with exposure to fancy dinners on TV programs, so too have microwaves ...
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The January 2014 Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Survey of Investor Confidence reveals that despite some positive trends, such as sales and profitability continuing to rise off of a low base through the December quarter, ...
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Exposing skin to sunlight may help to reduce blood pressure and thus cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, a study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology suggests. Research carried out at the Universities of Southampton ...
Politico reports that while Republican governors in Texas and Louisiana remain firmly in the no camp, others in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indiana and Oklahoma are giving the program a second look. News outlets also offer updates from ...
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Tesco's UK like for like sales drop 2.4 per cent, while Morrisons sees a 5.6 per cent fall in sales Tesco has revealed that it experienced weak trading over the crucial Christmas period. Britain's biggest supermarket chain announced ...
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Carnarvon Petroleum Limited ("Carnarvon") (ASX:CVN) has been advised by Apache, the Operator of the WA-435-P permit, that the spud date for the Phoenix South-1 well is likely to be in the second quarter of calendar year 2014. Apache has ...
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