As the surprisingly rough start of trading this year suggests, continued gains in Japanese stocks are premised on a delicate balance of factors. For the first time in six years, the market did not ring in the New Year on Monday, the ...
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For electronics buyers, inventory control tends to be one of the most challenging aspects of procurement and supply chain management. Making the hurdle especially cumbersome is that fact that purchasing agents are often responsible for ...
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Holiday sales of the core TV, PC, tablet and headphone categories rose 3.7 percent to $9.5 billion during the critical five weeks between Nov. 24 and Dec. 28, The NPD Group reported, compared to a year-ago rise of 1 percent. The ...
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According to report, the Turkish hot rolled coil (HRC) producers' export prices were down by US$5/ton to US$570~US$580/ton FOB basis last week due to the dollar's appreciation against Turkish lira as well as the demand from European market ...
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Trucking still runs on diesel, but every day seems to bring another sign that natural gas is trickling in. Most recently, Love's Travel Stops announced that their new station in Amarillo, TX will have fast-fill CNG fueling capability for ...
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Trucking still runs on diesel, but every day seems to bring another sign that natural gas is trickling in. Most recently, Love's Travel Stops announced that their new station in Amarillo, TX will have fast-fill CNG fueling capability for ...
Tags: Trucking News, Trucking, Love's Truck Stops, CNG
Flowserve Corporation announced it has received a multi-million dollar order from Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction to supply the pumps and energy recovery system (ERS) for the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant located ...
Tags: Energy Recovery System, Pumps, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
As spending on gadgets flattens in a world obsessed with smartphones and tablets, the Consumer Electronics Show here hopes to be a launch pad for a new must-have device. From drones and smart cars to remote-controlled door locks and ...
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Montana, known around the world as having some of the highest quality beef genetics, is continually looking for new markets. This year, after receiving funding, the Montana Department of Agriculture meat and livestock marketing officer ...
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A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of ...
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The gap between Kraft and Testliner prices had grown and hence a narrowing made sense. Foreign Kraft producers found the UK market increasingly attractive…which raised supply. There has been a further switch out of Kraft into the less ...
All three wheat futures closed lower than the last report on December 20. Abundant world supplies and weakness in the corn market pushed futures to their lowest point since May 2012 on Thursday. Bargain buying on Friday helped notch the ...
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The new year will look a lot like the old year for the mattress industry. That's the inference from the most recent bedding forecasts issued by the International Sleep Products Assn., whose statistics committee convenes as a forecast ...
Tags: Bedding Products, Light Industry, Daily Use
Interest in Victorian dairy company Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) has attracted a new potential bidder, according to media reports. There is speculation that Chinese state-owned China Investment Corporation is interested in WCB and ...
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The chair of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board says, thanks to lower feed costs, 2014 could be the most profitable year since 2006 for the province's pork producers. As a result of drought that devastated the U.S. corn crop in 2012 ...
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