Showing no signs of flagging, Big Foot net income rose 17% to $162 million from $138 million for the first quarter ended May 3. Sales were up 14% to $1,868 million from $1,638 million for the period, driven by a 7.6% comp store gain that ...
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US ethanol stocks for the week ended May 16 shed 312,000 barrels to a four-week low of 16.99 million barrels despite a production rise of 3,000 b/d to 925,000 b/d, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. The stocks draw ...
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US commercial crude stocks fell 10.3 million barrels to 390.69 million barrels for the reporting week ended May 16, American Petroleum Institute data showed Tuesday. The draw is far larger than analysts had expected. A Platts survey of ...
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The Asian butadiene/naphtha spread narrowed to an eight-month low of $329.38/mt Monday, following the closure of the arbitrage window to move Asian butadiene to the US Gulf Coast. The spread value was last lower on September 12, 2013, ...
LCD monitor shipments are expected to reach 135 million units in 2014, according to market observers. The number represents an on-year decline, down from 140 million in 2013. TPV is expected to hold a 37.4% share in 2014 followed by ...
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The nation's largest sporting goods retailer reported net sales for the first quarter of 2014 ended May 3, 2014 increased 7.9 percent to $1.4 billion. Consolidated same store sales increased 1.5 percent, compared to the company's guidance ...
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According to the BRC, footfall in April was 0.1% lower than a year ago, down on the 1.8% rise in March. High streets reported the largest decline, falling 1.4%, substantially down from the 2.6% rise in March while shopping centres ...
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A slowdown in the growth rate for tablet and mobile phone sales and economic uncertainty in emerging markets are putting a damper on global IT spending, according to IDC. Worldwide IT spending will increase 4.1 percent in constant ...
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The first U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cotton forecast for 2014/15 projects that global cotton production will decline for the third consecutive season. Although projected at its lowest in 5 years, production remains above ...
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According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in March this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-28) decreased by ...
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MEGlobal has rolled over its June North American benchmark for monoethylene glycol at 51 cents/lb, multiple market sources said Friday. The company said earlier this week that its June Asia contract price would decline $20 to $1,080/mt ...
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Northwest European styrene monomer prices fell $91.50/mt or 5.5% from the start of May to close Thursday at a one-year low of $1,553.50/mt FOB ARA, Platts data showed. The last time it was lower was April 23, 2013 at $1,544.50/mt FOB ARA. ...
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German PVC producer Vestolit expects European polyvinyl chloride (PVC) demand to grow at a pace of 2-3% a year, following years of contraction, amid a revival in the construction sector, company CEO Michael Trager said Monday. Over 60% of ...
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According to the Brazilian management science research institution - Fundacion Getulio Vargas index, in April Latin American's business environment is actually fell to the October of 2013. The economic climate index of this foundation is at ...
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GoPro's filing suggests the company is looking to create a social media giant based on the enormous amount of content its more than 8.5 million customers have generated, and it recently entered into an agreement with Microsoft to develop a ...
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