March average retail price for 7W LED light bulbs (equivalent to 40W incandescent ones) in the China market slipped 11.0% sequentially to CNY33.9 (US$5.5), while 9W models (equivalent to 60W incandescent ones) saw a 2.9% decline to CNY44.0, ...
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All US ethanol regions on Monday were assessed within 10 cents of their previous assessment for the first time since March 11, as volatility that has plagued the market for two months softened. The front-month New York Harbor ethanol ...
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Flint-based Creative Foods is set to cease ready meals operations in Flintshire, north Wales, a move which will affect around 150 staff. Located in Aber Industrial Estate, the plant manufactures frozen ready meals, sauces, soups and pasta ...
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March coal exports from Virginia's Hampton Roads region totaled 4.35 million st, up 1.4% from February but down 23.7% from the year-ago month, the Virginia Maritime Association said Monday. Neither the association nor the individual ...
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Steel production in the US Great Lakes region tumbled 6.8% last week after falling 9.8% the week before, the American Iron and Steel Institute reported Monday. The Great Lakes region produced 565,000 st of steel in the week ended ...
Japan's ethylene and ethylene derivatives exports in February fell 16.1% from a month earlier to 192,100 ethylene equivalent ton, or EET, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Monday. From a year earlier, the exports were ...
The tobacco giant said all cigarette production for the Australian market would be moved to its plant in South Korea. The company said stagnation in exports, decline in domestic demand, and Australia's regulation regarding cigarette ...
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March 2014 was a good month for heavy and medium-duty truck orders, according to two reports from freight forecasters. The freight forecast firm FTR says that at the end of March in North America, a total of 27,139 Class 8 trucks were ...
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Forman Mills Inc., of Pennsauken, N.J., has agreed to pay a $600,000 civil penalty. The penalty agreement has been accepted provisionally by the Commission in a 3-0 ...
Gold is lacking direction ahead of key US employment data due Friday, with mixed views on physical demand. ANZ said in a gold report that "the $100/oz decline in gold over the past two weeks was largely the unwinding of the 'safehaven' ...
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According to the Japanese Ministry of Trade (METI), Japanese demand for crude steel in the second quarter of the current year is expected to total 27.01 million mt, decreasing by 1.2 percent from the first quarter output forecast, with an ...
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T5 and T12 lamp shipments improved by 9.9 percent and 9.4 percent, respectively, on a quarterly basis (q/q) during 2013Q4. Shipments of T8 lamps contracted 2.1 percent q/q. Nevertheless, calendar year (CY) 2013 showed the index advancing ...
Gold could have further to go on the downside as physical buying is still lacking, according to a research note published by Swiss bank UBS Wednesday. "Gold reached our one-month forecast of $1,280 this week. Despite its $100 decline from ...
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In the first three months this year, sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in Turkey declined by 24.46 percent year on year to 115,272 units, according to the statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Distributors Association ...
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The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's non-manufacturing sector dropped 0.5 percentage points in March from a month earlier to 54.5 percent, data showed on Thursday. The index tracks activity in a number of sectors, including ...
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