A major threat to the public that many are not aware of are rogue house builders. Even with the government's assistance through organizations like the National Builders Association, you can still fall prey to rogue home building companies. ...
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The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group, is insuring a cashmere scouring and disinfection facility in Heart province of Afghanistan. The MIGA-supported project will ...
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Sport Chalet, Inc. is reporting a 2.8 percent sales decrease in its first quarter, which ended June 30, compared to the same period last year. Sales came in at $81.5 million, down from $83.8 million last year. The company's net loss for the ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, Sporting Goods, Recreation
The European Parliament voted Wednesday to limit the use of biofuels in the European Union, one of a series of potential changes to the bloc's climate-change policies that investors say are creating uncertainty and bottling up energy ...
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South Korea's import prices rebounded last month due to higher oil prices that offset the local currency's appreciation against the U.S. dollar, central bank data showed Wednesday. In local currency terms, imports prices rose 0.7 percent ...
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Tomson Group announced on September 10 that its indirectly 51-held Tianjin Jinwan Property signed "Jinwan Property Entrusted Loan Agreement" with Bank of Communications and state-owned Tianjin Financial City Company. Jinwan Property will ...
Bank of China (BOC) has launched RMB-to-KZT cash exchange and trade in Xinjiang and handled the first RMB-to-KZT cash exchange under the direct exchange. In June 2011, BOC released RMB-to-KZT cash exchange and trade in Xinjiang to meet ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has launched the PE42820 and PE42821 single-pole double-throw (SPDT) switches for ...
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Alcoa's declining market capital and low share price prompted officials with S&P Dow Jones Indices to remove the US aluminum major from its Dow Jones industrial average Tuesday. "Alcoa's market capital was dead last among the 30 ...
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Armstrong World Industries, Inc. announced the pricing of an underwritten secondary public offering of 12,057,382 common shares of the company held by The Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement Trust (the ...
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World Bank Group member International Finance Corporation (IFC) has acquired 2.93% stake in Brazilian meat packing company Minerva, for BRL46.9m ($20.5m). IFC is also providing BRL137.7m ($60.3m) in loan to Minerva, which will use the ...
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Concept III Textiles, Red Bank, N.J., and China-based Dry-Tex Textile Co. Ltd. have partnered to offer customers the ability to create lightweight, supple "packages" comprising two or three layers of performance textiles. Dry-Tex, founded ...
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When machine-tool maker Kasuga Co. of Japan decided to open its first overseas workshop around one year ago, it chose Taiwan over China on the advice of Jackson Wong, a Hong Kong citizen operating for more than 10 years as machine trader ...
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Sydney’s Cross City Tunnel is facing receivership for the second time in seven years. The Tunnel’s owners are required to refinance the project to the tune of $79 million by September 30, however an unpaid stamp duty bill ...
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Refining capacity expansions in China have been largely on track this year although the country's relatively weaker growth in oil demand could delay some projects and result in lower utilization rates, analysts said this week. Up to 1.3 ...
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