It’s reported that Taigang Stainless, the largest stainless steel producer in China announced to cut its export prices for 304 grade stainless coils by US$50/ton for the shipments between February and end of March. However, its ...
It is reported that German raw steel production in 2012 was down by 3.7%year on year to 42.7 million tons.However,the indicators are showing that the industry production is stabilizing. According to Industry Group Wirtschaftsvereinigung ...
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AT&T announced it sold over 10 million smartphones in Q4 2012. The figure tops its previous record quarter of 9.4 million sold in Q4 2011 Android and Apple smartphones made up a large part of AT&T sales. "We had another incredible ...
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The sharemarket struggled to gain traction yesterday as investors traded cautiously after seven straight weeks of gains. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 6.5 points,or 0.1 per cent,at 4717.3.It hit a 19-month high of 4750.7 in early ...
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In Volume 5,Issue 1 of Prime magazine,Jonathan Tulkoff,the president of Uniwire International Ltd.discusses the current situation and future prospects for the import/domestic dynamic in the US wire rod market. The end of 2011 was marked ...
Australian markets got off to a roaring start to 2013 yesterday, with the avoidance of the January 1 US fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts combining with rising iron ore prices to send the stockmarket on its biggest one-day ...
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Tech stocks were flat Friday afternoon after earnings announcements from IT vendors this week and a government economic report offered glimpses of good news, but not enough to dispel the pall that hangs over the technology market. Apple, ...
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Equity investing is squarely in a risk-off phase and few sectors have been hit harder than junior mining. Rare earth elements equities are no exception, but most of the materials themselves have not dropped nearly as much. The Critical ...
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Early on the opening day of Vision 2012, the German Engineering Federation – the VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau) presented the results of its latest survey of the machine vision marketplace. Based on factory order ...
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Lenovo, already China’s top PC seller, is expected to take the title for the country’s top smartphone vendor in 2013, Gartner said. It made the prediction as Lenovo’s swift growth in China’s smartphone market has ...
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The mood among many of the 43,000 attendees at glasstec 2012 was positive,despite uncertainties surrounding the global economy and glass market.While the European and Chinese segments show signs of softening,many exhibitors reported ...
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Strong revenues from Jeronimo Martins' Polish discount retail chain Biedronka helped boost group sales in the first nine months of the year. The Portuguese retailer recorded an 8.7% increase in sales to EUR7.95bn (US$10.3bn) in the period ...
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If you are driving a car produced in North America, the steel inside of it likely was made by Gerdau Special Steel North America. Headquartered in Napoleon Township, the steel mill at 3100 Brooklyn Road and the company's other special ...
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Tower Group has reported net loss of $15.1m, or $0.39 per diluted share attributable to common shareholders in the second quarter of 2012, against a net income of $24.12m, or $0.58 per share during the same period last year. Operating ...
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The Indian government which recently permitted 51 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) stake in multi-brand retail, while welcomed by the apparel brands and retailers, is being opposed by a few key political parties. Crisil ...
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