The sharemarket is set to enter the final trading day of the year on edge after worries that US politicians would not be able to avert the looming fiscal cliff sent US stocks on their biggest one-day fall in more than a month. Futures ...
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AUSTRALIAN stocks are set to rise today after the US avoided falling over its fiscal cliff -- at least for now -- and iron ore prices unexpectedly ended the year in positive territory. US tax and spending cuts due to start on January 1 ...
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US stocks ended the first week of the new year with a bang,with the S&P 500 notching a five-year high and the Dow securing its biggest weekly gain since December 2011. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 43.85 points,or 0.3 per cent,to ...
Energy solutions company in Canada, Klean Industries plans to collaborate with Dow in a bid to back Dow's drive to enhance the sustainability profile of plastic packaging in North America. The companies have extended a three year letter ...
Shell Chemical and Dow Chemical plan to implement 10-cent increases in their off-list US prices for isopropyl alcohol in mid-January, according to notices sent to customers Wednesday and obtained by Platts Thursday. The Shell price hike ...
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Dow Corning (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Dow Corning Corporation, al leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, celebrated the completion of its multi-million USD expansion at the Shanghai Songjiang site that ...
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It was a jittery session for stocks, with shares falling more than 1 percent after Senate Majority Harry Reid warned a deal was unlikely before the deadline, only to rebound merely on the news that the House would reconvene Sunday, ...
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Borealis said Friday it will raise all polyolefin prices for January 2013. Polyethylene prices will increase by Eur100/mt while prices for polypropylene will increase by Eur75/mt. "The decision to increase prices is based on the ...
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LOCAL shares closed higher today as US President Barack Obama cut short his Christmas holiday to return to Washington for talks aimed at resolving the so-called fiscal cliff. Investors in Australia's sharemarket remained optimistic that ...
Tower Bridge in London receives Olympic LED makeover 31 May In preparation for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games,London's Tower Bridge has been fitted with an LED lighting system from GE.Philips Ledalite announces TruGroove LED-based ...
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The Afghanistan Ministry of Mines said Tuesday it opened its final bid for the Badakhshan gold deposit, located in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, Dow Jones Commodities reports. Mines Minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, said on ...
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A hacker today claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals who are seeking Wall Street jobs or working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of job ...
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STOCKS fell in a quiet, preholiday session as concerns lingered that a fiscal stalemate could hit the economy in the new year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 51.76 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 13139.08. The markets closed early, ...
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The U.S. green building market continues to accelerate, according to McGraw-Hill Construction's 2013 Dodge Construction Green Outlook report. The value of green building has seen growth from $10 billion in 2005 to $78 billion in 2011. In ...
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THE sharemarket ended the week on a low note as investors took fright after US budget talks on the fiscal cliff fell into disarray. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 10.5 points,or 0.2 per cent,at 4623.6,reversing gains that had seen ...
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