The Cotlook A Index rose to 96.65 cents per pound around mid-June 2013 before receding to the low 90s cents level towards the end of the month. On June 12th, the USDA increased 2012/13 U.S. export estimate to 3 million tons due to ...
Tags: Chinese Policy, World Cotton PricesWorld Cotton Prices
Through 2017, global demand for doors and windows is expected to rise 7.1 percent annually to $223 billion, significantly exceeding the growth rate of the 2007-2012 period, according to World Windows & Doors, a new study from The Freedonia ...
Lloyd's Register issues guide to new construction in South Asia Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 Lloyd's Register has issued the first Guide to New Construction in South Asia. The Guide provides an overview of the shipbuilding and ship design ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
THE Australian dollar pared its gains after a change to the nation's leader and weaker-than-expected economic growth figures out of the US prompted an earlier rally. The local unit was trading at 92.75 US cents at 6.30am AEST,down from ...
Tags: economic growth, Australian Dollar, GDP, economic stimulus
Defra has announced that it is to reduce Wrap’s budget by 40% to £15.5m, as part of Chancellor George Osborne’s Spending Review Defra said that its funding for Wrap is to reduce to 60% of its current level of ...
Dai Dongchang, chief planner at China's Ministry of Transport, has stated that China will invest around RMB 4.7 trillion ($766.72 billion) in building up its national road network in the period up to 2030, in order to ease pressure from ...
Tags: Transportation, Road Network
A string of footballers and other celebrities have been accused of using an extravagant data centre construction scheme in a bid to avoid tax. The data centres, on the Cobalt business park just outside Newcastle, are completely empty two ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
From a sustainable perspective the transition from a linear to a circular economy is necessary. A circular economy requires innovation of material and product reuse, as well as related business models. By using materials more effectively, ...
Tags: Sweden, H&M, Apparel&Accessories
Investors around the globe are on edge amid more volatility in financial markets as Wall Street attempts to wean itself off stimulus and fears intensify about China's banking system, sending Australian shares sharply lower to the point of ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will launch an investigation of the business practices of so-called patent trolls in an effort to understand whether those companies are harming competition and consumers, the agency's chairwoman said. As ...
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The Aussie slumped to a fresh 33-month low today as the US central bank signalled plans to rein in its stimulus program before the end of the year and China's economy showed more signs of a slowdown. At 5pm AEST, the Aussie was trading at ...
Negotiations between the US and Europe to address transatlantic import duties, non-tariff barriers to trade and trade facilitation would lead to the elimination of import duties on the Eur48 billion ($64 billion) worth of chemicals traded ...
Tags: Chemicals
Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said. Annual sales of storage capacity ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
G8 leaders have signed an Open Data Charter, in which all nations involved have agreed to "establish an expectation that all government data be published openly by default". All eight nations attended a summit in Northern Ireland which ...
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Signs of economic growth were prevalent in global trade data issued this week by Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers. U.S.-bound waterborne shipments—at ...
Tags: Manufacturing&Processing Machinery, Panjiva, Trade Numbers