Natural rubber surpluses and poor demand, especially from China, will weigh on spot prices for the commodity, Germany's Commerzbank said in a report issued Tuesday. "Several years of supply surpluses on the global rubber market have ...
Tags: Natural rubber, Chemicals
The World Apparel Fibre Consumption Survey recently completed by the Economic and Social Development Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (EST/FAO) and the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) ...
Tags: Apparel Fibre, Textile
Airline business confidence remains strong, according to IATA's quarterly survey of airline CFO and heads of cargo in July, with 71% of respondents expecting an improvement in profitability over the next 12 months. There is confidence ...
The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) remained positive again in June after the first decline in ten months in April. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lag time ...
“During the transaction period, no one buys China Ⅳ-compliant trucks and China Ⅲ-compliant trucks are not allowed to sell,” says by a HD truck dealer of Pang Da Automobile Trade Co., Ltd. The sale of HD trucks is ...
Tags: HD Trucks, Transportation
OPEC would need to cut production sometime in the second half of 2013 or early 2014 to stave off "a large drop in prices," Kuwait's leading bank said in a report over the weekend. In its latest economic bulletin, released late Sunday, the ...
Tags: Crude Output, Kuwait Bank
A BIG upswing is expected in coming years in the number of Australian businesses transacting with China in yuan, according to a survey by HSBC. While only 7 per cent of Australian companies have conducted cross-border yuan transactions -- ...
Tags: businesses transacting, economy
LED lighting is forecast to become an $80 billion dollar industry by 2020 and the market for epitaxial wafers (epi-wafers) is predicted to grow to $4 billion, according to new research. A survey of LED wafer manufacturers carried out by ...
In July 2013 economic expectations for Central and Eastern Europe including Turkey (CEE) remain almost unchanged. The ZEW-Erste Group Bank Economic Sentiment Indicator for the CEE region increases slightly by 1.7 points to a level of 25.7 ...
Tags: economy
Canadians say they would buy more if presented with promotional offers on their smartphone while out shopping. When asked what they would do if they received a promotion on their smartphone that applied to either the item they were buying ...
LED lighting is forecast to become an $80 billion dollar industry by 2020 and the market for epitaxial wafers (epi-wafers) will grow to $4 billion, according to new research. A survey of LED wafer manufacturers carried out by Lux ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED chips, LED, Lights
I. The Sales Prices of Newly Constructed Commercial Residential Buildings (excluding affordable housing) Comparing with the previous month, among 70 medium and large-sized cities, the sales prices of newly constructed commercial ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The global LED market value recorded a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 20-30% during 2010-2012, but most of Taiwan-based LED makers did not see substantial growth in revenues, and this was possibly because they worked separately in ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights
The infant formula industry is in the spotlight again after the launch of a price-fixing investigation into foreign and domestic milk powder makers and intensified government efforts to consolidate a nationwide hodgepodge of producers. ...
Tags: Dairy Industry, infant formula
A new report from the SANS Institute and RSA on help desk security and privacy finds help desk workers are the easiest victims for a determined social engineering criminal. Due to metrics and basic job requirements, end user and network ...
Tags: Computer Products, software