Kyodo News reported that Japan central bank monetary policy meeting on the 7th unanimously decided to maintain the current policy and will not implement further monetary easing policy. The meeting also decided to raise assessment on ...
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A biiger-than-expected trade deficit for January hurt the Australian dollar in the Asia session but overall trading was subdued. Australia posted a seasonally adjusted trade gap of $1.06 billion in January, compared with $688 million in ...
John Lewis Partnership plc results for the year ended 26 January, 2013. Financial Highlights The John Lewis Partnership -Gross sales of £9.54bn, up £811.8m, 9.3% -Revenue of £8.47bn, up £706.9m, 9.1% ...
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In February this year, Germany's crude steel output amounted to 3.447 million metric tons, decreasing 3.7 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, according to the information provided by the German steel federation ...
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Microsoft has done something it's historically been loath to do: discount prices for the copies of Windows it sells to computer makers, online reports said today. Both the Wall Street Journal and the Asian electronics supply chain ...
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Statistics Canada reported Thursday that building permits in the country totaled $5.8 billion in January, up 1.7 percent from December. The increase in the residential sector more than offset a decrease in the non-residential sector. ...
Australian businesses don’t plan to hire new staff in the coming months, and are putting off investments, as the cost of doing business takes its toll. On the back of recent high-profile job cuts and off-shoring announcements by a ...
It’s reported that Taiwan’s export prices of small-diameter wire rods with diameter less than 14mm hit the two-year low in this January. In January, the export prices of small-diameter wire rods averaged at NT$21,425/ton, ...
It's reported that steel rebar futures at Shagnhai Futures Exchange (SHFE) fell for a second day to the lowest level in more than six weeks on nine consecutive weeks of climbing inventories in China, showing a sign of oversupply in the ...
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The Mini Countryman JCW ALL4 Dakar Winner 2013 special edition has been launched to celebrate the car’s back-to-back successes in the gruelling motorsport event. The limited edition Countryman John Cooper Works model commemorates ...
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Australian coal producer Xstrata has issued its financial results for 2012, which has been a transformational year for the company with 10 major projects commissioned. In 2012, Xstrata registered a net profit of $1.18 billion, decreasing ...
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According to the data released by the Export and Import Division of South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy, the country's trade balance indicated a $2.1 billion surplus in February this year, remaining in black for the 13th consecutive ...
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HP today announced new innovations aiming to strengthen its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio. At its yearly Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas, the tech giant unveiled a new HP BladeSystem, HP Converged Storage and HP Networking ...
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In February, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index was 54.5 percent, a decrease of 1.7 percentage points over the previous month. In view of different industries, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index of construction industry ...
In February, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.1 percent, down by 0.3 percentage point month-on-month. In view of the sizes of enterprises, the PMI of large-sized enterprises was 51.3 percent, kept at the ...