Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India jumped Friday due to a large number of fixtures for grain cargoes in the Atlantic basin, market participants said. "Some of the ...
The European ethanol physical price curve moved into contango this week as persisting high inventory in April collided with views that May could bring improved demand, sources said this week. A standard 1,000 mt fuel ethanol barge for ...
Tags: Ethanol Physical Price, Chemicals
In the week ended April 19, prices resumed their overall downtrend in the London Metal Exchange (LME) billet market, after the rise observed in the 3-month and 15-month prices in the previous week. Strong falls have been recorded in the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Retail searches made by customers using tablet devices in Q1 have risen 198% year-on-year. Search volumes on smartphone devices rose 66 per cent. Total retail search volumes grew 16 per cent compared to the same period last year. ...
Tags: Toys, smartphone
Reportedly, Korean Hyundai Hysco cut its production target for this year due to sluggish automotive industry. It's learned that as Hyundai Motor' car output decreased by 20.7% year on year to 142,895 units in March. Also, Korea's car ...
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Nokia's sales of smartphones running Windows Phone continued to grow in the first quarter, and its net loss shrank year on year, even as overall revenue declined. The company reported first-quarter sales of a!5.85 billion (US$7.63 ...
Tags: Nokia, Windows Phone
The largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S., BitFloor, has closed again, this time due to issues with its bank account, according to its founder. Roman Shtylman wrote that the exchange's "US bank account is scheduled to be closed and we can ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest and LLC Zeppelin Russland have announced the signing of a contract for the supply of six Caterpillar 789D dump trucks with an average carrying ...
Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced late Wednesday Q1 2013 net income of $48 million on net sales of $1.8 billion. By comparison, prior year Q1 net income was $46 million on net sales of $2 billion and sequential Q4 ...
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During the course of the first quarter of 2013, European softwood-lumber suppliers showed a level of brisk demand unexpected in this form on the Japanese market. Following initially very sluggish purchasing behaviour by Japanese importers ...
Tags: European Consignors, Construction
Beacon Foods, a supplier of specialist flavorings and cooked ingredients for prepared meals in the UK, has installed an automated pot filler and sealer from Packaging Automation (PA). Designed for frequent product changeovers, the FP-6 ...
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in February this year Turkey's total wire rod exports amounted to 76,989 metric tons, falling 36.1 percent month on month and down 27.5 percent compared to February ...
Tags: Wire Rod Exports, Mineral
Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced that it has reached agreements with its customers for coking coal and coke sales for the second quarter of 2013. Accordingly, NWR has set the average agreed price of ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced that, together with its steel pipe pile joint corporation in Vietnam, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Pipe Vietnam Co., Ltd. (NPV), it has recently received orders for large ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
It's reported that Taigang Stainless, the largest stainless producer in Taiwan announced to cut its export prices for austenitic coils by another US$100/ton for deliveries till end of June, due to lower nickel prices The official of Taigang ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, taiwan