Cleveland, Ohio-based Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. has announced that it is further reducing its expected 2014 capital spending range by approximately 25 percent, or $100 million, to $275-325 million. Cliffs indicated that the lower ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Natural Resources
Brazil's government is expected to announce Wednesday an increase to the volume of biodiesel mixed with diesel sold at the pump, boosting demand for the biofuel and likely lifting the flagging fortunes of local producers, officials for two ...
Tags: Biodiesel, Biodiesel producers
Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials has seen increasing market share in the silver paste segment, heaping pressure on international competitors, such as DuPont, according to sources with Taiwan's solar cell makers ...
Tags: Giga Solar, PV
U.S. companies are crying foul over China’s oversight of monopoly and pricing issues, as antitrust enforcement threatens to further sour Sino-American business ties already damaged by a row over cyber espionage. The U.S. Chamber of ...
In its financial results according to international financial reporting standards (IFRS) for the first three months of the current year, the net loss of Russian pipemaker TMK totaled $16 million compared to a net profit of $85 million in ...
Tags: TMK, TMK's sales
The US hot-rolled coil steel sheet market Wednesday saw prices trend move down for the second time this week as buyers and at least one producer reported lower offers and transaction prices. One Midwestern service center source said HRC ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, Hot-Rolled Steel
Miner Rio Tinto is to change the basis for the iron ore lump premium in its quarterly iron ore term contracts with Chinese mills to one based on a monthly average of weekly Platts spot lump assessments, from a fixed premium level set on a ...
June US butadiene contract prices are expected to roll over or possibly fall slightly compared with May contract prices as spot levels have dropped throughout May, sources said Wednesday. Many sources expect a rollover in contract pricing ...
Tags: Butadiene, contract price
China's gold demand fell 18 percent in the first quarter as investors bought fewer bars and coins, offsetting record interest in jewelry, the World Gold Council said. Purchases declined to 263.2 metric tons in the three months ending ...
Tags: Gold Demand, jewelry consumption
The top 20 module suppliers to the solar PV industry are guiding an increase in annual shipments of more than 30% in 2014, according to Solarbuzz. Leading China module suppliers Trina Solar, Canadian Solar, ReneSola, and Jinko Solar are ...
The US shale gas and oil boom of recent years is "very profound, but sometimes taken out of proportion," International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol said at the Flame conference in Amsterdam Tuesday. Birol said that of the ...
Sentiment among printers, on the general state of trade, remained positive on balance during Q1, according to the latest BPIF Printing Outlook survey. The balance between those believing that the general state of trade improved (30%) rather ...
Tags: Office Supplies, Print demand
The US steel sheet market remains relatively steady, though a lack of buyer urgency may be eroding the bottom range of hot-rolled pricing, market sources said Monday. A top-tier mill source said import buying has picked up but domestic ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, top-tier mill
Nearly 3 million barrels of Abu Dhabi's Murban crude is expected to move into the Mediterranean in June, according to traders, as weaker demand in Asia and expectations of a bullish summer in the Mediterranean Urals market have attracted ...
Tags: Asian Demand, Murban crude
Neither component leadtimes nor pricing seem poised to budge during the month of May, according to Avnet Electronics Marketing’s Market and Technology Trends report. But buyers shouldn’t be deceived by the apparent stability: ...
Tags: Component Trends, Electronics