Woolworths has announced new long-term milk supply contracts Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced two new 10-year milk contracts across Australia that it says "will give dairy farmers and processors more certainty to ...
Tags: Milk, Agriculture, Food
Average LED lamp price drops 9% in one year 03 Apr 2014 Combination of Chinese production, improved performance and fierce competition drives down unit costs. Slipping: global average LED lamp retail price. Today, the global average ...
Tags: LED Lamp, LED Lighting, LED Sales
Miner BHP Billiton expects India to lead future demand growth for coking coal, as Chinese imports steady while global competition from suppliers in Australia, Russia and North America intensifies. The world's biggest seaborne coking coal ...
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Australia's governments should agree to cut the fuel tax and registration charges paid by trucking operators, the chairwoman of the Australian Trucking Association Noelene Watson said. The National Transport Commission (NTC) concluded in ...
LED pricing declined 5-9% in first-quarter 2014 as distribution channel inventory levels gradually returned to norm and manufacturers stocked up before the China May Day holidays, according to LEDinside. Looking ahead, the firm added that ...
Tags: Ultra HD TV, Lighting Demand, LED 1Q14
Norway-focused iron ore miner Northern Iron said Tuesday concentrate produced at Sydvaranger was being trialed at further sinter plants in Europe, after inaugural cargoes were bought by ArcelorMital and ThyssenKrupp in 2013. Northern Iron ...
Worldwide software revenues totaled US$407.3 billion in 2013, a 4.8% increase from 2012 revenues of US$388.5 billion, according to Gartner. The software industry is in the middle of a multi-year cyclical transition as organizations are ...
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US polypropylene contracts could see a stable-to-down settlement for April, then rebound as early as May, market sources said Monday. A nomination for polymer-grade propylene contracts calling for a rollover of March pricing was giving PP ...
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The ferrous scrap market in eastern China remained quiet this week, keeping in step with the rebar market's trend. Demand from steelmakers has not fully recovered as the finished steel markets have remained sluggish. Media reports that ...
In a move that did not entirely come as a surprise, India's Election Commission earlier this week asked the incumbent government to defer a hike in the wellhead price of natural gas that was due to be implemented on April 1. But analysts ...
Tags: Natural Gas, gas pricing, OIL's production
Although this week’s trading action may have felt like a victory for the bears, the chart reveals that the market has actually moved sideways in the last 15 sessions, with May closing in a tight range between 91 and 94 cents since ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Mixed Trends, balance sheet
Gas buyers in Asia are facing the same problems of high prices and a monopolistic market that their counterparts in Europe faced a decade or so ago, but there is no equivalent regulatory body that can force suppliers to change their ...
Tags: Gas Markets, Europe's Dilemma
Mill discipline and supply issues have brought US steel sheet prices up, but those prices are anything but secure, market sources told Platts Thursday. "The mills timed [the increase] well," said one service center executive. "I don't ...
Ford is putting its product-led transformation on display at the 35th Bangkok International Motor Show, highlighting its commitment to bring more segment-leading global Ford vehicles to consumers in Thailand and across the ASEAN region. ...
While the US Department of Commerce is conducting an anti-dumping investigation of China-based PV module makers and their cell suppliers in Taiwan, the China makers reportedly have asked their government to talk with the US about setting ...
Tags: anti-dumping, PV module, PV industry