Platts assessed the spot price of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal at $2,000-2,050/mt FOB China Thursday, unchanged week on week, as buying interest stayed scant as offer prices from Chinese sellers rose. This week a Chinese producer with ...
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Chih Lien Industrial, one of major manufacturers in steel bars and wires in Taiwan announced that the company's board of directors has planned to sell its China wire plant's shareholding. This wire plant located in China's Donguan, ...
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ICE Cotton had its best week since August, gaining almost 400 pts to settle at 83.22 c/lbs basis H4. The USDA WASDE release on Tuesday was a non-event – failing to include an increase in US exports as had been expected by many – ...
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In a matter of just three weeks the futures market has gone from being one of the cheapest suppliers to becoming one of the best buyers! On November 22, when spot December entered the notice period, it traded as low as 73.79 and closed that ...
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Fabric is a key element of each John Lewis interior trend collection. Philippa Prinsloo, design manager, home comments on its role in Expressions, the contemporary trend for Spring Summer 2014. “Expressions is a creative collection ...
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Retail sales of color TVs reached 24.55m sets in the first half of 2013, a year -on-year increase of 30%, according to a report. Howerer, the number of homes usin television is reducing. Retail sales of LCD TVs reached 20.21m sets in the ...
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The price differential between US Gulf Coast butane and international markets has eclipsed that of US propane but the US has failed to see a pick up in butane cargo liftings, according to market sources. "I guess it's a logistic ...
OPEC crude production continued its downward trend in November as a new series of output disruptions took hold in Libya and lower volumes from other member countries outpaced an increase of 192,000 b/d in Iraq, monthly estimates from the ...
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According to report, Korean flat steelmaker Dongbu Steel said it would cut its hot rolled coil (HRC) output in December to lower down the stocks before the year end. The company said it would cut about 20,000 tons during the month. The main ...
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It’s reported that the rebar transaction activity was going slowly in the Taiwanese market in the past four weeks. However, since most of end buyers have run out of rebar stocks and global scrap price has kept rising, it caused ...
Sapphire substrate concept stocks have soared lately on China’s A-Shares market, but major international sapphire substrate suppliers stock prices have plunged, according to a China Securities Journal article. Out of the major ...
Textile mills turn to buy cheaper Indian cotton yarn to cut costs Affected by adverse weather, a reduced planting area and lower Indian cotton prices, China's cotton output is expected to drop sharply this year compared with 2012, which ...
South Africa-based Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT), one of the world's largest coal handling ports, has announced that it exported 6.22 million mt of coal in November, down 14.4 percent from 7.27 million mt in October and decreasing by ...
The Nasdaq computer index Friday hit its highest point since November 2000, in the wake of the dot-com bust, despite mixed reports this week from the hardware and components sector. The Nasdaq computer index closed Friday at 1989.89, up ...
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The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reached an interim agreement that will shield public stockpiling programs for food security in developing countries from the usual limitations on governments buying food from domestic farmers at ...
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