NY futures jumped this week, as July rallied 474 points to close at 84.87 cents, while December gained 256 points to close at 85.39 cents. After nine consecutive losing sessions at the end of May, during which the spot month lost more ...
NYMEX parent CME Group will likely implement additional quality specifications on its light sweet crude futures starting with the January 2014 contract, a member of the Crude Oil Quality Association's board said Thursday. CME plans to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Petroleum
Borusan Mannesmann, a Turkish leading steel pipe manufacturer has commissioned Siemens to provide related cutting edge equipment for a new Electric Resistance welded (ERW) pipe mill in Baytown, Texas, US. This project will contains all ...
Tags: Pipe Mill, US, Construction&Decoration
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- On Saturday, June 15th the Knoxville, TN Stanton Optical store is having a customer appreciation celebration from Noon until 3:00 PM. General Manager Juan Jonny Lopez and Sales Manager ...
The number of U.S. housing markets on the mend rose by five to a total of 263 in June, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI), released recently. The list includes entrants from ...
Tags: Housing Markets, IMI
OCI N V plans to sell a minority stake in its Beaumont, Texas, methanol and ammonia plant in a second half of 2013 initial public offering, the Dutch-listed parent of Orascom Construction Industries said Wednesday. The funds from the IPO ...
Ascend Performance Materials experienced a plant-wide outage that caused unauthorized emissions at its Chocolate Bayou, Texas, chemical facility on Monday, the company said in a filing Tuesday with the Texas Commission on Environmental ...
Tags: Chemicals, Chocolate Bayou facility, Plant
Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the opening of its new product contamination evaluation facility in Sugar Land, Texas, US, in a bid to enable food and pharmaceutical manufacturers address safety and quality issues. The Product ...
Tags: Thermo Fisher, Evaluation Facility
The top 200 companies enjoy more than 50 percent of the global industrial pump business. Another 5,000 companies average less than $4 million in sales each. According to the McIlvaine Company in Pumps: World Markets the concentration of the ...
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — A 72.7% jump in furniture and mattress sales helped power retailer Conn's to a total first-quarter revenue gain of 25%, with earnings nearly doubling to $22.2 million. The company said furniture and mattress ...
New-home production and remodeling contribute billions of dollars to the nation's economy each year, and with the right policies in place housing can serve as a catalyst to boost job and economic growth, the National Association of Home ...
Tags: Builders, Pro-Housing Policies
Texas Instruments and Qualcomm are working on products that will power small mobile base stations, also known as small cells, and help improve indoor coverage and speeds for enterprises. Small cells can be used in homes, public spaces and ...
Tags: Texas Instruments and Qualcomm, Small Cells, Enterprises
Belk, Inc., the nation’s largest family owned and operated fashion department store company, announced operating results for its fiscal first quarter ended May 4, 2013. Tim Belk, chairman and chief executive officer of Belk, Inc., ...
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz indicated Thursday that decisions on at least some of the pending applications to export US liquefied natural gas would be made before the end of the year. During his first appearance before the House ...
Tags: LNG-Export, Chemicals
Arthur J Gallagher & Co, an Illinois-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, is gearing up to acquire Bollinger, a New Jersey-based brokerage firm with over $100m in revenue. Sources close to the deal were quoted by ...