LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Meritor has launched an aftermarket educational campaign that explains how the company’s aftermarket brake products and automatic tire inflation parts enhance safety and an operator’s ability to comply with ...
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ICE Cotton settled almost 150 pts lower for the week at 85.83 c/lbs basis the H4, which wasn’t bad considering Monday started with a 300 pts sell-off. What looked like a near-term top above 88 cents now has to be viewed a bit more ...
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Business owners from across the country and a wide spectrum of industries met with U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez to discuss the need for an increased minimum wage. Business leaders from EILEEN FISHER, New Belgium Brewing (CO), ...
Kimberly-Clark Corporation reported year-end 2013 results and provided its 2014 outlook and related key planning assumptions. Executive Summary Fourth quarter 2013 net sales of $5.3 billion were even with the year-ago period. ...
Farm produce prices in 36 major Chinese cities dropped slightly in the week ending Jan 19 compared with the previous week, according to a Ministry of Commerce statement on Tuesday. The average wholesale prices of 18 kinds of vegetables ...
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China's economic reform is one of the key issues that will impact sovereign ratings and growth prospects of developing Asian economies this year, according to a global credit rating agency. In its latest reports "2014 Outlook: Emerging ...
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Truckload carrier Marten Transport reported 2013 was the best financial year in its history, but fourth-quarter income declined. Fourth-quarter net income dropped to $7.3 million, or 22 cents per share, from $7.7 million, or 23 cents per ...
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The Chinese economy grew at an annual pace of 7.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, which was enough to ensure that growth for the whole of the year matched that of 2012. According to preliminary data from the National Bureau of Statistics ...
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The January 2014 Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Survey of Investor Confidence reveals that despite some positive trends, such as sales and profitability continuing to rise off of a low base through the December quarter, ...
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Consumer prices increased by the most in six months in December, the Labor Department reported Jan. 16. The consumer price index, a key measure of inflation, increased 0.3% in December from the month before. It was the biggest gain since ...
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Annual inflation in the euro area was 0.8 percent in December last year, down from 0.9 percent recorded in November, according to a report released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. In December 2012, the ...
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As projected, GDP in the Eurozone expanded by a meagre 0.1% in Q3 2013, as export growth fell sharply. Economic activity is expected to accelerate modestly over the forecast horizon (+0.2% in Q4 2013, +0.2% in Q1 2014 and +0.3% in Q2 2014) ...
Despite affordable prices and high food quality, the United States tied with Japan for 21st place in a ranking of the world's food systems, according to the international advocacy confederation Oxfam. The report, released Tuesday evening, ...
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Prices paid to U.S. producers rose for first time in three months, increasing 0.4% in December, the Labor Department reported Jan. 15. Last month's producer price index reading followed a dip of 0.1% in November. Economists' forecast ...
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Is craft beer becoming 'mainstream' in the UK? Following the introduction in the UK of the Small Breweries' Relief Act in June 2002, there has been a boom in the number of UK breweries, and many are now moving the craft movement firmly up ...
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