Yahoo has posted a first quarter earnings decline of 20% to $311.6 million. In a trading update yesterday, the company added that revenue from display advertising increased by 2% to $409 million. Additionally, first quarter group revenue ...
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US service center inventories of steel products contracted in March, while Canadian steel inventories rose to their highest level since June 2013, according to Metals Service Center Institute data published Tuesday. At the end of March, ...
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Malaysia has approved a 20% increase in natural gas prices for industrial and commercial sectors in the west of the country, effective May 1, in order to reflect the cost of procuring more expensive imported LNG. Domestic natural gas ...
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The 2013/14 U.S. cotton production estimate was reduced this month to 12.87 million bales as indicated in the March 2014 Cotton Ginnings report; upland production was placed at 12.23 million bales while the ELS crop was estimated at 633,000 ...
France's GO Sport Group saw gradual improvement in same-store sales, strong performance for GO Sport Poland and nearly flat sales at its Courir stores in the first quarter ended March 31. The retailing group generated €155 million in ...
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Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose one point to 47 in April from a downwardly revised March reading of 46 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). ...
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Organic claims are appearing less on American restaurant menus Restaurants in the US have shifted their business practices to introduce a greater number and wider variety of claims that reflect trending food concerns, according to global ...
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Data from Automobile Association data showed a slight overall growth in the domestic commercial vehicle market. In January 2014, the monthly production of 70 companies in the auto market was 2,051,665, an increase of 4.44%, and the ...
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In February this year, the output volume of Great Britain's construction industry increased by 2.8 percent year on year and decreased by 2.8 percent compared to January recording the strongest fall since November last year, according to a ...
The Stockmann Group’s revenue was down 4.7 per cent on the previous year and amounted to EUR 141.1 million in March 2014. The decline was due to currency exchange rates, as the Russian rouble reached its weakest level ever against the ...
European coatings companies have been hoping that this year would bring a revival in their domestic markets as the European Union economies, particularly those in the eurozone, started to show signs of recovery around mid-2013. But the ...
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UK retail sales for March were down 1.7% on a like-for-like basis from March 2013, when they had increased 1.9% on the preceding year, according to the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. On a total basis, sales were down 0.3%, against a ...
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Gap Inc. reported net sales of $1.51 billion for the five-week period ended April 5, 2014. Gap Inc.’s comparable sales for March 2014 were down 6 percent versus a 1 percent decrease last year. “While March performance has ...
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CCA has announced it expects its earnings will decline Food and beverage company Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has announced it expects its group earnings before interest and tax for the first half of 2014 to decline by around 15 per cent ...
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The European Commission has opted to maintain antidumping duties on imports of ferrosilicon into the European Union from China and Russia following a market review, the EC said Thursday. In February last year, the EC initiated an expiry ...
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