Change is in the air for Microsoft in response to?ho-hum sales of Windows 8, and it sounds like PC makers couldn't be happier. Citing various PC industry executives in Asia, the?Wall Street Journal reports?that Microsoft is being more ...
A new study commissioned by the National Retail Federation and other trade associations shows that imported merchandise has considerably lowered the price of consumer goods for American families while creating millions of jobs for American ...
Tags: Textile World, Textile
Aviation biofuel's newly minted ability to generate tradable US renewables credits, known as RINs, may be key to the industry's economics, according to market watchers. "The availability of RINs is a critical bridge to commercial ...
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As of May 7, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 70.53 million mt, indicating a decrease of 290,000 mt or 0.4 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of May 7, the Xinhua-China ...
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Luxembourg-based tubular producer Tenaris reportedly has predicted that the demand of pipes consumption was likely to remain sluggish in 2013. However, Tenaris expects to make product mix improvements to help offset the impact of lower ...
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Canadian Natural Resources' production averaged 489,157 barrels a day in first-quarter 2013, up nearly 24% from 395,461 b/d in the same period a year ago on record output from both its heavy oil and oil sands assets in Alberta, the company ...
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Luxembourg-based energy pipe and tube manufacturer Tenaris has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013, registering a net profit of $423 million, down six percent compared to the corresponding quarter of 2012. In the ...
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Automakers make routine price adjustments to respond to market forces or account for increased production costs. In an interesting move, Nissan lowered the prices substantially on seven models to help them appear in search results when ...
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Tablet shipments soared by 142% in the first quarter of 2013 year-over-year as all Android tablets, including low-budget white box versions, dominated the market over Apple iOS tablets, IDC said. Apple outpaced IDC's original forecast for ...
Tags: Think Tablets, Computer Products
Think video streaming, from services such as Amazon and Netflix, is killing physical discs? Not quite yet, according to the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), which reports that Blu-ray sales were 28.5 percent higher in the first quarter of ...
Tags: Blu-Ray Discs, Consumer Electronics, DVR
Norway's Statoil Thursday reported first-quarter output of 1.998 million b/d of oil equivalent, down 9% year-on-year, which, coupled with lower prices, cut net profit by more than half. However, CEO Helge Lund said in the results ...
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If you've ever had trouble affording your medications and wanted to call your doctor on it, here's some encouraging news: Doctors aren't pleased about the prices either. Denouncing "profiteering" by pharmaceutical companies, more than 100 ...
Mexico-based mining company Minera Autlán, S.A.B. de CV (Autlán) C. Autlán estimates an increase of 3 percent in sales volume of ferroalloys from the first quarter last year, despite continuing difficulties in the ...
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Being able to make something by their own merit is what many "DIY" people strive for. To them there is nothing better than being able to say, "I did this". Having the ability to create something, anything, no matter how big or small will ...
US domestic flat rolled price increases in Q4 2012 and Q1 2013 did not stick due to lackluster demand, overcapacity woes and import competition, executives at Reliance Steel & Aluminum said during the company's Q1 2013 conference call on ...
Tags: Reliance Steel, US Flats Market