The Japan government recently started its quantitative easing (QE) policies putting pressure on other Asia currencies. Taiwan's premier Sean Chen has urged Taiwan's central bank to adopt necessary measures to stabilize domestic prices and ...
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Australian Commonwealth Government 10-year bond yields rose 12 basis points to 3.44 per cent following a similar move in US Treasury bonds during the Australia Day long weekend. At 11.38am AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.8 per ...
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The sharemarket surged to a 21-month high yesterday as investors dumped bonds and rushed to buy equities in response to an improving global growth outlook. Overnight on Monday, the US reported a 4.6 per cent rise in durable goods for ...
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For occasional and accent suppliers, this week's Las Vegas Market should be a good indicator of business to come in 2013. Coming out of an election year and a partial resolution to the "fiscal cliff," many suppliers are hoping that the ...
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Retail spending growth will remain steady heading into 2013, according to the AFGC CHEP Retail Index. The index showed 3 per cent growth in December 2012 compared with December 2011. Looking ahead, this level of year-on-year growth is ...
Tags: Retail, AFGC CHEP Retail Index, Australia, food, grocery
The AWEX Regional Indicators finished 0.5% lower, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle this week when the US exchange rate rose by 0.1%. Overall, it was satisfactory market. The EMI finished down by 6¢ (5¢ ...
Tags: Australian Wool, Prices, Last Week
The new BlackBerry marketing theme could well be, “Not dead yet”, as the world prepares to hear about two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, which are due to be announced on Wednesday. Days before the announcement, there is fairly ...
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Dynalite is a lighting and automation control system developed in Sydney, Australia by a company of the same name. In 2009 the company was bought by Phillips to become Phillips-Dynalite. The system is commonly used for lighting control, ...
Business conditions at architecture firms continue to improve. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lag time between architecture ...
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) said Wednesday that the December Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score was 52, down from 53.2 in November, but still positive as 50 indicates an increase in billings. As a leading economic ...
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"Not dead yet" could well be the new BlackBerry marketing theme, as the world prepares to hear about two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones to be announced next Wednesday. Days before the announcement, there is fairly wide disagreement among ...
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France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) has announced that the industrial economic situation in France has deteriorated again according to the industrial business climate indicator for January following a ...
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Fluke has introduced the Fluke T90, T110, T130 and T150 Voltage and Continuity Testers. The new family of rugged two pole voltage/continuity testers offers a combination of light, sound, vibration and digital display to provide instant ...
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LOS ANGELES, CA (BRAIN) — Fixed-gear bike company Pure Fix Cycles has hired industry veteran Terry Duran as global sales manager. Duran was previously national sales manager for Scott Sports' U.S. bike division. The company said ...
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SICK (Booth 1031) launched a new radio frequency identification (RFID) interrogator at ProMat. The RFU630 RFID Interrogator is an ultra-high frequency (UHF) read/write unit that includes a sophisticated controller, antenna and ...
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