Gulf Coast propane prices continued to hold a premium over Midcontinent product Wednesday as the market stabilizes into its traditional price relationship. Propane at Mont Belvieu, Texas, was assessed at $1.555/gal on Wednesday while ...
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Railcar manufacturer FreightCar America estimates there were 16,500 coal cars in storage at the end of 2013, the lowest level since early 2012, the company said Wednesday. Reporting its quarterly earnings, the Chicago-based company said ...
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Spot prices for delivered cargoes of North Sea propane have increased on renewed buying from the petrochemicals sector, according to industry sources. In the early part of this month the spot price of CIF North Sea propane was just above ...
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Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced its financial results for the first half of the financial year 2013-14 ended on December 31. During the half year, Fortescue's net profit amounted to US$1.72 billion, compared ...
According to a report Thursday from the Lake Carriers’ Association, coal shipments on the US Great Lakes totaled 373,000 tons in January. While the total represents an increase of 62 percent compared to a year ago, January 2013 was ...
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Mexican steel producer DeAcero released a request Thursday that the US Department of Commerce avoid trade disputes with Mexico and focus on the defense of NAFTA regions, which receive unfair imports from China and the European Union. In ...
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Helen Dickinson, British Retail Consortium Director General, said: "More shoppers were out and about in January, with a solid 1.6 per cent in overall footfall across the country. It’s good news for retailers and it helps to explain ...
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Wolverine Worldwide reported financial results for both the fourth quarter and full year ended December 28, 2013. Full-year results include a full 52-week contribution from the Company's October 2012 acquisition of the Sperry Top-Sider, ...
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Swiftwick, a leading U.S. producer of athletic compression socks, is proud to be the official sock of the 2014 5-hour ENERGY presented by Kenda Racing Team. Last season the team chalked up more than 30 podium finishes after racing in three ...
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Anglo American's thermal coal division produced 67.6 million mt in the 2013 financial year, slipping 2% on the year due to lower-than-expected production at Colombia's Cerrejon and South Africa's New Vaal mines. The miner said in its ...
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Mattress Firm said its sales for the fiscal year that ended Jan. 28 totaled approximately $1.22 billion, but said earnings will fall short of its previous guidance because of heavy promotional activity and inclement weather in several key ...
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December housing starts dropped 16%, the largest decline since February 2011, the Commerce Department said Feb. 19. Starts fell to an annual rate of 888,000 units in January from a revised 1.05 million pace in December. Economists had ...
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Truck tonnage rose 1.2% in January, held back by a series of nationwide winter storms, American Trucking Associations announced. The impact of the storms was illustrated by the 4.3% drop from December, the largest sequential decline in ...
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America's most successful domestic robots suppliers - iRobot post Roomba cleaning robot has been 11 years. The Roomba family welcomed new members - Roomba880 cleaning robot. Roomba880 removing debris efficiency raised 50% than the last one. ...
The BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor has repoted that footfall in January was 1.6% higher than a year ago, up on the 2.4% fall in December – the best footfall performance since December 2011. High streets reported the only fall – ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing