Low price of gas could impact the sale of electric cars, according to BMW which is planning to introduce electric models of its top selling cars. Bloomberg cited BMW's head of sales and marketing Ian Robertson as saying that the sale of ...
Big complex banks must now hold far more capital than in the past because they are seen as posing higher economic risks and they have to be easier to dismantle if they hit trouble. That has hurt their profitability and held back share ...
Tags: Big complex banks, soft trading
Halfords Group plc reported same-store sales by its Cycling and Travel Solutions stores increased 7.6 percent and 5.7 percent respectively in the 15 weeks and fiscal third quarter ended Jan. 9. The UK’s leading retailer of ...
Tags: Same-Store Gains, Sporting Goods
The procurement of cotton by the state run Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has neared 5 billion bales of 170 kg each, during the ongoing season October 2014-September 2015, according to media reports. The CCI is actively purchasing ...
The Chinese mainland market may have suffered its biggest loss on Monday, but rebounded on Wednesday. 2015 is set to be the first of what is likely to be a three-year bull run for Chinese equities. Chinese households have for the most ...
Tags: Chinese Equities, Bull Market
Due to the euro zone, Japan and some emerging economies disappointing economic prospects, offset by a drop in oil prices brought the global economy, the World Bank cut down global economic growth forecasts on January 13, 2015 and 2016. ...
Tags: Economy, Global Economy
The University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index for January rose to an 11-year high of 98.2, helped by a strengthening job market and lower fuel costs. The preliminary reading was the highest since January 2004, and up ...
Tags: job market, fuel costs, Sporting Goods
Each month, North Coast Research surveys a large sample of paint retailers throughout the U.S. to get a sense for current business trends. Please note that of the three primary architectural coatings channels (paint stores, home centers ...
Tags: Coatings Industry, paint stores, home centers, Construction
For coatings producers one of the big benefits of the sharp fall in oil prices in the second half of last year (2014) should be a drop in raw material costs. Some commentators are also predicting a rise in demand due to the effect of ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Raw materials, Construction
Despite a sharp decline in oil prices, the world economic outlook is subdued, weighed down by underlying weakness elsewhere, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest update to the World Economic Outlook (WEO). Compared ...
Tags: oil prices, world economic outlook, Textile
Spencer’s Retail, the flagship company of RP Sanjiv Goenka Group and a subsidiary of CESC, will be expanding its private labels, mostly in apparel. Speaking at a press conference to announce the launch of seventh hyperstore of ...
Tags: Labels, menswear, womenswear, kidswear, Apparel
Supporting some upbeat holiday forecasts, Zumiez and Pacific Sunwear of California both raised fourth-quarter guidance after reporting healthy comps in December. A few department stores also showed above-plan performances although both ...
Tags: hard goods, footwear, Sporting Goods
Due to the success of two pilot programmes which are part of Solutions for Hope, an integrated civil and supply chain initiative to source conflict-free tantalum from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), partners, including AVX, have ...
Brazilian cotton output might again reduce in the 2014/15 crop, but would still be close to the average registered over the last 11 seasons, says the latest fortnightly report of CEPEA. “In worldwide terms, a supply decrease is ...
Tags: remunerative prices, export costs, exchange rate ratio, Textile
Oil industry could ride out a further price slump to $25 a barrel since there is no sign within OPEC toward action to support oil prices. It shows that despite lobbying by Iran and Venezuela, there is little chance of collective action by ...
Tags: Oil industry, crude oil