The realisation was as surprising as it was momentous. Toledo, long known as Glass City, needed glass, and it could no longer be manufactured locally quickly enough. So Toledo turned to China to make the 360 panels, weighing 589kg each, ...
Apple CEO Timothy Cook received a compensation package valued at nearly $4.3 million this year, up slightly from 2012. Cook's pay for fiscal 2013, which ended in September, consisted of $1.4 million in salary and a bonus of $2.8 million, ...
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Holiday sales between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24 rose 2.3 percent from the same period the year before, according to preliminary data from MasterCard Inc 's Spending Pulse unit. That marks improvement versus the 0.7 percent gain a year earlier. ...
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Infrastructure will remain the watchword as US refiners look to further cement their role as world class product exporters in 2014, improving export capacity and rejigging refineries to increase their output of export-friendly diesel, ...
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Russian mining and steel producing company Evraz has announced signing of an agreement with Ruda Khakasii on the acquisition by Ruda Khakasii of a number of Evrazruda's iron ore assets and utilities companies located in the Republic of ...
North American labor rights groups welcomed a landmark agreement, announced, to deliver an estimated $40 million in compensation to the families of those killed in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh and called on Walmart, ...
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Prices for calves, feeder cattle and finished cattle have set some new records this fall and early winter. A combination of circumstances has precipitated these historic prices. There is currently a lot of cautious optimism on the part of ...
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Because of its capital requirements, ranching isn't always the easiest business for younger men and women looking to run their own cattle. However, you can lease farmland, machinery, and other big-ticket pieces of a crop farm -- why not ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
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The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) has ruled that duties leveled on OTR tires exported to the United States from China under a previous countervailing duty order will remain in place. As published recently in the Federal ...
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The global market for AMOLED light-emitting materials will expand to US$445 million in 2014, up from US$350 million in 2013, according to IHS. "South Korea's Samsung Display has successfully pioneered the AMOLED business during the last ...
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Athabasca Oil Corporation (TSX: ATH) ("Athabasca" or "the Company") has closed its previously announced sale of a 50% interest in the Kaybob area light oil infrastructure to a third-party for cash consideration of $145 million. Athabasca ...
Bioanalytical Systems,Inc.(NASDAQ:BASI)today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2013,highlighted by net income of$252,000,or$0.03 per diluted share,for the fourth quarter and$773,000,or$0.09 per diluted share,for ...
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Jiangsu province-based Chinese steelmaker Valin-Xigang Special Steel Co., a subsidiary of Hunan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Valin Group, has announced that its production and sales target of finished steel for 2014 is 800,000 mt, ...
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Rosneft announces that it signed an agreement with NOVATEK to swap assets. 40% of shares in Artic Russia B.V. held by Rosneft will be swapped for 51% shares in Sibneftegas held by NOVATEK. The transaction does not involve any cash payments. ...