The latest USDA October report forecasts the US cotton crop for 2014 at nearly 16.3 million bales, down slightly from its last month’s forecast, but is 3.3 million bales or 26 percent above the 2013 production. According to the ...
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Philips has posted a €103 million (81 million) net loss on third quarter earnings just three weeks after announcing that it wants to split off its lighting division. The Dutch giant blamed slowing markets in China and Russia and a ...
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Diageo-owned Indian alcoholic beverages company United Spirits is planning to divest two distilleries in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. The move is in line with the company's strategy to boost its resources by cutting down ...
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Did Microchip Technology get ahead of itself last week by suggesting that its downward revenue forecast was a negative bellwether for the whole semiconductor market? Or is there a macro-economic weakness, foreshadowed by Microchip, that ...
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The first ten years of the 20th century coincided with the last decade of the Manchurian Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The Boxer Uprising in 1900 against the foreign allied forces prompted the Qing government to make changes in its politics but ...
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Since this year, China export stationery and office supplies,entertainment supplies, sports supplies, recreational equipment supplies,paper and so on to 227 countries around the world.The exported to Asia, Europe, North America these three ...
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GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for anticorrosion coatings in China was worth more than RMB 36 billion in 2013, with sales of roughly 1.4 Mn Tons. The study finds that growth in 2013 was only 2.8 percent, ...
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Global crude steel production in September this year decreased by 0.1 percent year on year to 134.42 million metric tons, while a 0.4 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association ...
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According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in August this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-28) increased ...
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VF Corp. said The Timberland, Vans, The North Face, Kipling and Wrangler brands drove a 7 percent increase in revenues and an 11 percent increase in earnings per share in the third quarter ended Sept. 27, 2014. All per share amounts are ...
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As December declined 38 points to close at 63.56 cents/lb, while March shed 56 points to close at 61.71 cents/lb, New York cotton futures moved slightly lower this week. Another round of severe weather in the Delta and Southeast ...
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The Southern Europe region is expected to garner €47.8 billion in ecommerce sales by the end of the current year, says a report from Ecommerce Europe. It says online sales in the region have clocked an annual growth rate of 22% since ...
Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced its operational results for the first nine months of the current year. In the January-September period, TMK shipped 3.159 million mt of steel ...
The trend observed in the German cotton market in the previous week of a decline in demand, continued into the current week too. In the medium staple range, interest was focussed primarily on standard as well as European qualities for ...
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Global DRAM bit demand growth will be higher that of bit supply growth in the fourth quarter of 2014, easing pressure on the prices of DRAM chips in the quarter, according to Digitimes Research. However, DRAM chip prices still may face ...