Company profit expectations have reached their highest level since 2003, with Australian businesses anticipating a jump in takings in the New Year on the back of stronger sales and firming selling prices. Continuing initial positive ...
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China National Gold Group Corporation believed that gold consumption will surpass 1,000 tons in 2013 full year, rising 20.2% from a year earlier. Deputy General Manager of the company revealed that China has remained world number two for ...
China Construction Bank (CCB, SHSE: 601939, and SEHK: 0939), the biggest real estate and mortgage lender in the Chinese mainland, will control a 72 percent stake in Brazil-based Banco Industrial e Commercial S.A. (BIC). It said in the ...
For third-quarter 2013, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $11.1m, down 45% on $19.9m ...
The HSBC purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China rose to a final reading of 50.9 in October from 50.2 in September, unchanged from the flash estimate released previously, HSBC Holdings PLC has announced. The final manufacturing PMI ...
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For its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (ended 28 September 2013), JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported revenue of $429m, up 1.8% on $421.3m last quarter and 1.9% on $420.9m a year ago (and at the high end of the guidance range of $410-430m). ...
Oil prices were little changed Monday as traders awaited U.S. crude inventories data for last week. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Energy Department' s statistical arm, will on Wednesday release its report covering U. S. ...
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Most domestic steelmakers are seeing an improvement in their third-quarter performance. Fifteen of the 20 listed steel companies that issued third quarter reports made profits, as opposed to last year, when up to 90 percent of the steel ...
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Manufacturing continued its run of steady progress in October, according to the most recent edition of the Manufacturing Report on Business from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM). The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure ...
China's PMI Was 51.4 Percent in October National Bureau of Statistics of China Department of Service Statistics of NBS China Federation of Logistics and Purchases (CFLP) In October, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index ...
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The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 51.4 percent in October this year, up 0.3 percentage points compared to September, rising for the fourth consecutive month on month-on-month basis, according to ...
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Brazilian steelmaker Usiminas reported net income of R$115 million (US$52.5 million) in the third quarter following two consecutive quarterly losses and a net loss of US$22.1 million in Q3 2012. Net revenues totaled R$3.20 billion in Q3 ...
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Yieh Hsing, one of the major wire rod producers in Taiwan to keep its carbon steel wire rod prices unchanged for November. Also, the company has remained its wire rod prices unchanged for consecutive two months. Recently, the raw material ...
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In October this year, the purchasing managers' index (PMI) of the steel sector in China's Hebei Province decreased to 43.5 percent, down 0.4 percentage points month on month, declining for the second consecutive month, as announced by the ...
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Inventure Foods, Inc., a leading specialty food marketer and manufacturer, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 28, 2013. Quarter Overview Consolidated net revenues for the 2013 third quarter were $54.5 ...
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