Dillard’s, Inc. announced operating results for the 13 and 52 weeks ended February 1, 2014 including record fiscal year earnings per share adjusted for certain items of $6.99 versus $6.33 in the prior year. Fourth Quarter Results ...
Tags: Net Income, Apparel
Roberto Rodrigues was Brazil’s minister of agriculture from 2003 through 2006, and he’s recognized as one of that country’s leading authorities on agriculture. Like his father and grandfather, he is an agricultural ...
Tags: intensification, family farms, market forces
A manufacturer of seats and interiors for commercial trucks is moving its U.S. headquarters and opening a new factory that is expected to create hundreds of jobs, the Associated Press reported. German auto parts maker Grammer AG said it ...
Tags: Truck Seat, governments support
Visits considered “window of opportunity” to ensure preventive care Medical associations widely recommend that women visit their obstetricians and primary care doctors shortly after giving birth, but slightly fewer than half ...
Tags: Obstetricians, window of opportunity, Medicaid, complicated pregnancy
The bill would tie subsidy levels to cost of living around the nation instead of to the national federal poverty level. In the meantime, a lawmaker from Colorado introduces a bill to speed construction of VA hospitals. The Sacramento Bee: ...
Tags: Health Law, High-Cost Areas, VA hospitals
Dirty diesel is the most common form of electricity generation throughout Caribbean island nations, but that will change if billionaire Richard Branson has anything to do with it. Branson is using his private island in the British Virgin ...
Tags: NRG Energy, LED lighting, Swap Diesel, Caribbean
Related Arlington, Va. — The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) released its 2014 Public Policy Agenda: Retailers Strengthening Communities, which outlines the industry’s top public policy priorities for 2014, and ...
Tags: Retail Industry, Privacy&Cyber, Health Care, Labor
First production from the Papua New Guinea LNG project is now expected in the third quarter of this year, Australian joint venture partner Santos said Friday as it reported its financial results for 2013. Santos holds 13.5% of the ...
Tags: LNG project, Mineral
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corp has submitted a formal request to the National Board of Revenue seeking a waiver from local taxes, value added taxes and other duties imposed on refined oil product imports, in order to borrow less from ...
Tags: Petroleum, Tax Waivers, Oil Product
For 2013, Rexam posted a 1% rise in sales to £3.9bn. Underlying profit before tax was up 4% to £372m. The group also hit 15.5% return on capital employed (ROCE), up on the 14.5% in 2012. Rexam’s total dividend is up 14% to ...
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has started an anti-dumping investigation of China- and Taiwan-based solar players and is expected to announce preliminary anti-dumping tariffs in June. Taiwan-based solar cell makers can tolerate tariffs ...
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China's recent move to digitally tag fuel cargoes to clamp down on the widespread practice of declaring crude purchases as fuel oil to evade taxes is already seen to be curbing demand for heavy Venezuelan Merey crude from teapot refiners in ...
Tags: Curbing Demand, Tax Change
The Australia Pacific LNG project is currently around 60% complete and remains on track to deliver its first cargo in mid-2015, joint venture partner Origin Energy said Thursday. Origin is the upstream operator of the coalseam gas-based ...
Tags: Pacific LNG, Chemicals
The Chinese export spot price of 75%-Si ferrosilicon was assessed at $1,410-1,440/mt FOB Thursday, compared with $1,410-1,450/mt a week ago, on slow domestic and export demand. This week, an Inner Mongolia-based producer sold around 300 ...
Tags: Ferrosilicon, Mineral
Packaging Corporation of America reported today fourth quarter record net income of $227 million, or $2.33 per share. Earnings included special items of $1.70 per share of income from the reversal of tax reserves related to alternative ...
Tags: Packaging Corporation, Packaging