China's manufacturing grew at its strongest rate in 18 months in December but new exports fell from the previous month due to weak global demand, a survey showed Monday. HSBC Corp. said its monthly purchasing managers' index rose to 51.1 ...
Tackling excess capacity will be one of the top tasks on China's economic agenda in 2014, as the issue becomes a major challenge to maintaining the pace and quality of economic growth. "The Chinese economy still faces downward pressure ...
Tags: Slashing Capacity, Mineral
Flat glass prices climbed 1.3 percent from October to November, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) report issued by the U.S. Labor Department. It's welcome news for an industry that saw prices fall precipitously during the ...
Tags: Flat Glass, Glass, Construction, Decoration
The Federal Government has invited expressions of interest to develop a new freight hub in Sydney’s south west at Moorebank. The government has selected Moorebank as the next major intermodal terminal to manage the growth of both ...
Tags: terminal, transportation
Given the fast growing market demand for viscose staple fibre (VSF), a man-made, biodegradable fibre with characteristics akin to cotton, Hong Kong-listed specialty cellulose producer Sateria is trying to put the VSF fabric production ahead ...
Tags: VSF fabric, Textile
The world will require all forms of energy over the next quarter century to meet a greater than one-third increase in demand that will be driven by population growth, improved living standards and expanded urbanization, according to ...
Tags: Oil and Gas News, Exxonmobil
The official opening of the Route 1 – One Mile House Interchange brought together the community and memebers of parliament. Rodney Weston, Member of Parliament for Saint John, on behalf of Denis Lebel, Minister of Infrastructure, ...
Tags: transportation
The average annual rise in China's petroleum use will drop to 2.5 percent during the years 2013 to 2020 as the government tries to slow down economic growth and reduce carbon emissions, said experts. The figure will keep declining to 1.5 ...
Tags: Petroleum Use, Chemical Industry
International credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's has announced the lowering of its forecast for US GDP growth for 2014 to 2.6 percent from the previous estimate of 3.1 percent, "amid the increased risks of a government stalemate and ...
Tags: GDP, metallurgy
Chinese steelmakers' profits will remain low next year as output remains high and demand growth slows, said industry experts. The ratings agency Moody's Investors Service said on Wednesday that its outlook for the Asian steel and coal ...
Tags: Steel Sector, steel capacity
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The future of the Texas electric market will very likely include substantial amounts of renewable energy and gas-fired power, economists with The Brattle Group find in a new report ...
Tags: gas, renewable energy
China's exports handily beat forecasts in November, adding to recent evidence of a stabilization in the world's second-largest economy as its leaders embark on an ambitious restructuring plan. Exports rose 12.7 percent from a year ...
Freight Transportation Research (FTR), an American source for logistic and transportation research and analysis, has reported the Trucking Conditions Index (TCI) reading still remains high due to capacity tightness from regulatory drag ...
Yesterday, ADB issued, China's economic growth forecast to 7.7% from 7.6% this year, next year's economic growth forecast to 7.5% from 7.4%. The report points out China's growth will benefit from the infrastructure investment growth in this ...
Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE:ACI) today announced that Tygart Valley's Leer mine in northern West Virginia has begun operating its longwall mining system, representing a major milestone in the development of the overall mining complex. The Leer ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy