Despite the rejection this week by Italy's Constitutional Court of a bid by local prosecutors to shut down the Taranto facilities of Italian steel producer Ilva, the prosecutors have today, April 12, turned down a request by Ilva's lawyers ...
Tags: Ilva, Steel Stocks
Microsoft’s stock took a beating over the weekend after a pair of research firms said PC shipments in the first quarter were down as much as 14 percent from the year before. As of 4pm on Thursday, shares of Microsoft were down ...
Tags: Microsoft Stock, PC Shipments
It’s reported that Russian Casting and Rolling Complex, a subsidiary of the United Metallurgical Company or OMK has made it in public that it produced over 1.1 million tons of hot-rolled coil stocks in 2012, rising by 4% from a year ...
Tags: Russian OMK, Casting, Hot-Rolled Coil
THE sharemarket has bounced back to close above the key 5000 point mark for the first time in a month amid hopes that local interest rates will fall. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 39.1 points, or 0.79 per cent, ...
Tags: economy
In the last days, the New York futures registered a considerable decrease to a level that had been seen at the beginning of March lastly. The reasons for the strong futures movements were not always comprehensible. Some can be named: ...
Tags: Long Staple Cotton, Bremen Market
THE sharemarket enjoyed a bumper day, closing almost 1.5 per cent higher on positive overseas leads. the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 71.3 points, or 1.45 per cent, at 4976.8 points. The broader All Ordinaries ...
Tags: economy
"MOVE along now, nothing to see." Constable Plod's old refrain looks an apt way to sum up Criterion's performance in the March quarter, with his "buy" calls rising an average 1 per cent in a quarter in which the broader market surged 5 per ...
Tags: economy
BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Woodside Petroleum jumped between 1.4 per cent and 3.5 per cent after commodities including copper, oil and iron ore rose between 0.6 per cent and 1.3 per cent early yesterday. Among iron ore pure plays, ...
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The sharemarket has closed slightly weaker as investors sold off defensive and high-yielding financial stocks after a couple of days of gains. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 8.8 points, or 0.18 per cent, at ...
Tags: Stocks
The sharemarket fell slightly yesterday as traders took profits in financial stocks and other defensives, while continuing to buy miners after China's benign March inflation data sparked an upturn in commodity prices. The benchmark ...
Tags: Stocks Dip, economy
Coal exports from South Africa's Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) soared to a 15-month high of 7.49 million mt in March, jumping 37.4% month-on-month and 20% year-on-year, the latest operating data released by the port Tuesday showed. ...
Tags: Coal exports, Chemicals
It is reported that Korea’s Posco planned to decrease export prices by US$10~US$20/ton for cold rolled coil to China for May shipments compared with contracted prices for the previous month. However, the company has not public ...
Tags: CRC Export Prices, CRC Export
Spot gas prices on the UK's NBP trading hub began the new week at the lowest levels in seven-days as demand eased back towards seasonal norms with warmer temperatures moving across the country. The LNG outlook is looking healthier, too, ...
Tags: Spot Prices, gas prices
South Africa-based Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT), one of the world's largest coal handling ports, has announced that it exported 7.5 million mt of coal in March, up 37.4 percent from 5.45 million mt in February and up 20 percent year on ...
Though the tech IPO market has gone from a boil to a simmer, some companies in areas such as big data and cloud-related technology are plunging in. Just this week, business intelligence software provider Tableau Software and cloud-based ...
Tags: tech IPO market, tech IPO