For fourth-quarter 2012, GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) has reported ...
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Marks and Spencer group Plc released its quarter 3 2012/13 interim management statements 13 weeks to 29 DECEMBER 2012 - Group sales +0.6% - Total UK sales +0.3% - Like for like UK sales -1.8% - Multi-channel sales +10.8% - International ...
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Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel has announced the reversal in the third quarter ending December 31, 2012 of the loss on the write-down of investments in securities reported in the first half ending September 30, 2012. In the first half of ...
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Sainsbury's today (9 January) reported that third-quarter like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, came in at 0.9%. While this represents a slow-down from the company's previous 31 consecutive quarters of growth, Sainsbury's was able to ...
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China is responsible for more than 95%of the global supply of rare earths and over the weekend the country'sMinistry of Land and Resources(MLR),announced that the first production quota for rare earths this year will be set at 46,900 ...
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According to the data released by France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), the country's construction cost index in the third quarter of 2012 stood at 1,648 declining compared to the 1,666 recorded in the ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, (INSEE
For its fiscal first-quarter 2013(ended 23 September 2012),Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has reported record revenue of$315.8m,up 3%on$306.8m last quarter and 17%on$269m a year ago(and in the middle of the$305-325m targeted range,with ...
Beleaguered smartphone producer HTC has seen its profits drop by 91 per cent year-on-year,according to the Taiwanese firm's unaudited results for the fourth quarter of 2012. The$34.5 million(£21.44m)profit represents HTC's worst ...
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The PC market was once the engine room of the global semiconductor market.But no longer. The two largest microprocessor suppliers to the PC market,Intel and AMD,see sales under pressure as smartphones and tablets take over as the chip ...
Cat was finally out of the bag on the 3rd day in New Year. Even though not coming as a surprise the muddled pattern gave indication of inherent diffidence. As reported earlier by us on January 1st, it is learnt that HRC price is hike by ...
Tags: HRC price, India, steel mills, steel price
Surprise acquisitions,top level exec changes,retail casualties and the London 2012 effect,the continued dominance of LEGO and Moshi Monsters in-store–not to mention some eye-watering charity challenges…the toy business has ...
Tags: acquisitions, LEGO, Moshi Monsters, Mookie Toys
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 ...
Providence seems to favor Indian mills at the onset of Q4. Market is piquantly abuzz with expectation of price hike in long and flat by at least INR 500-1000 per tonne. If the import parameters seem to be favoring the flat producers with ...
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France's gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of 2012 rose by 0.1 percent quarter on quarter - after a 0.1 percent quarter-on-quarter decrease in the second quarter - declining slightly since the publication on November 15 of ...
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Social gaming firm, Zynga has cut 11 games in its planned shutdown of 13 game titles. The latest game to get the axe is PetVille, which shutdown on Sunday Dec 30, 2012. Petville had an average of 1 million monthly active users. Other ...
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