The Northwest European styrene monomer premium over feedstock costs has fallen to a 2015 low, Platts calculations show, as a balanced market left consumers eager to normalize November spreads over feedstocks to levels similar to the start ...
Tags: Styrene, feedstocks, premiums
ExxonMobil Chemical has delayed a 5 cents/lb November polyethylene increase for buyers in the US and Canada, multiple market sources said Monday. A buyer source said ExxonMobil would attempt to implement the 5 cents/lb increase in ...
Tags: Exxonmobil, Polyethylene, Sources
Northwest European styrene monomer spot offtake remains lackluster this week on the back of supply length, with buyers predicting lower prices in the coming weeks and industry consumers keen to reduce stock levels for the end of the year, ...
Tags: styrene, Offtake Lackluster, styrenics products, Discounts
Crude oil shipments by Kirby's inland barge fleet continued to slide in the third quarter of 2015, as did the price that transporting those volumes can command, executives said during the company's Q3 earnings call Thursday. Kirby moved ...
German power contracts for Monday delivery lost ground during Friday trading, yet remained buoyant on low renewables forecasts and reduced availability of coal-fired units. At Platts' 1100 GMT close, baseload power for Monday delivery was ...
Tags: renewables forecasts, coal
The November bidweek national average price tumbled 32 cents to average $2.06/MMBtu as points outside of the Northeast moved lower, Inside FERC's Gas Market Report said Monday. The November bidweek price at the benchmark Henry Hub dropped ...
Tags: Natural Gas, price
With many South Korean filmmakers moving to neighboring China for a wider and more lucrative market, Kim Ki-duk has become the latest big name to join the flock. Kim, 55, recently announced in Beijing that his first Mandarin movie, Who Is ...
Tags: Kim, China Market, Movie
Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, today reported consolidated financial results for its third quarter, ending 27 September 2015. Sonoco president and CEO Jack Sanders said: "We are encouraged by the ...
Grammer has signed a contract for the acquisition of the Reum Group, a provider of surface, plastics and metal technology. Reum is specialized in developing and manufacturing high-quality, design-oriented metal and plastic combinations, ...
The 25th China-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade was successfully held in Chicago, the United States, on December 16-18, 2014. Consensus has been reached by China and the United States as follows: Export Control: The ministries ...
Against the backdrop of a severe international investment environment, great difficulties and challenges from the downward pressure of the domestic economy, China’s overall absorption of FDI remained stable in 2014, with the quality ...
Tags: FDI, foreign investment, liberalization of trade in service
China-Africa trade and economic cooperation in 2014 overcame some bad influences from the weak growth of global economy and price decline of commodities, continued to maintain a sound momentum of development, advanced the cooperation in ...
Tags: economic cooperation, investment, financing, contracted projects
Under the background that China’s economy entered into the new normal, new technologies, commercial formats and business modes in the service outsourcing industry sprung up, the role of innovation in development was even more ...
Tags: service outsourcing industry, Belt and Road Initiatives, foreign trade
In 2014, MOFCOM made active efforts to perfect the support policies system on trade in services, build a market environment of fair competition and raise trade in services into a new step. In 2014, China’s trade in services maintained ...
Tags: trade in services, bilateral cooperation, service outsourcing industry
On April 8, 2015, the Ministry of Commerce issued the announcement No. 12 of 2015, releasing the Record Management Methods on Foreign Investment in Free Trade Zones (Pilot)(hereinafter referred to as the Method). There are 20 articles ...