Muscle car is a term used to refer to a variety of high-performance automobiles. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines muscle cars as "any of a group of American-made 2-door sports coupes with powerful engines designed for high-performance ...
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The sharemarket notched up its biggest gain for five weeks yesterday as the banks led broad-based gains thanks to lower-than-expected domestic inflation data and stronger offshore markets. The consumer price index rose 0.4 per cent in the ...
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US stocks ended a tumultuous day with strong gains after a false tweet briefly sent financial markets veering, underscoring technology's role in tightly linking global markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plunged Tuesday ...
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A valve is a device that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways. Valves are technically valves fittings, but are ...
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Sondrel, the system-to-silicon IC design consultancy, has announced a partnership with the University of Nottingham which will develop new IC design talent in China. The multi-million dollar programme will provide students based at the ...
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Allied Bakeries is on target to commission its largest bread plant, with a capacity of 10,000 loaves an hour, at Walthamstow in East London this summer. Allied Bakeries plans to commission its largest bread plant, with a capacity of ...
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The sharemarket climbed to a five-week high yesterday as falling bond yields fuelled demand for high-yield stocks, offsetting the negative effect on miners of disappointing Chinese manufacturing data. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 1 ...
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Furniture imports to the U.S. rebounded in 2012 thanks to improvements in the economy, largely driven by stock market gains and improvements in housing, according to Furniture Today's 2013 Imports/Exports Report. Our research indicated ...
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The dollar was down more than half a cent against the greenback because of continued fears of weakness in world commodity prices and ahead of local inflation data that might clear space for an interest rate cut next month. News last ...
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SHARES climbed yesterday following a rally in Japanese stocks and as some analysts saw potential for the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates next month. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 0.7 per cent at a two-day high of 4966.6. The ...
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THE dollar has started the week on the back foot, after losing more than three quarters of a US cent late on Friday. At 5pm AEST today, the Aussie was at $US1.0283, down from $US1.0343 on Friday. The dollar started the local session ...
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Oil markets pushed higher Thursday to pare Wednesday's losses on a combination of profit-taking and a softer dollar, analysts said. NYMEX May crude settled $1.05/b higher at $87.73/b, after bouncing between a low of $86.31/b seen in ...
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The Australian dollar has hit a six-week low after most metals prices fell during the offshore session on Friday night. At 6.30am AEST the local unit was trading at 102.78 US cents, down from 103.43 cents on Friday. Earlier today the ...
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Unable to close a number of large mainframe and software deals by the end of the quarter, IBM has reported a 5 percent decline in revenue to US$23.4 billion for the first quarter of 2013. Net income for the quarter ending March 31 also ...
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The earliest Chinese valve manufacturer started in 1950’s, at that time, there were only several valve manufacturers and they belong to government. In 1980’s, after the the reform and opening-up policy, quite a few Chinese valve ...
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