Frank Polich/Bloomberg News Construction spending rose 1% in November to the highest pace in more than four years, the Commerce Department reported Jan. 2. The increase brought spending to an annual $934.4 billion annual rate, the ...
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President Obama projected that 2014 would be a "breakthrough year" for the U.S. economy. "We head into next year with an economy that's stronger than it was when we started the year," Obama said Dec. 20 at the White House during his final ...
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The U.S. economy expanded at a 4.1% annual rate in the third quarter, the strongest since the final three months of 2011 and up from an estimate of 3.6%, the Commerce Department said Dec. 20. Economists' forecasts for gross domestic ...
A US trade panel decided on Tuesday to extend antidumping and countervailing duties on hot- rolled steel products from five foreign countries after the second five-year review of the measures imposed initially in 2001. The US ...
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November housing starts increased 22.7% to the highest level in more than five years, the Commerce Department announced Dec. 18. Starts rose to an annual rate of 1.09 million units in November, the most since February 2008, exceeding ...
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At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) on Wednesday decided to maintain the antidumping duty order on imports of steel nails from China. The bipartisan trade panel voted unanimously in determining that revoking the existing ...
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The US Commerce Department on Friday set preliminary dumping margin on prestressed concrete steel rail tie wire from China and Mexico, signaling that it may impose punitive duties on the products. The department made its preliminary ...
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At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
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The US International Trade Commission on Tuesday approved trade investigations into grain- oriented electrical steel products from seven foreign countries, paving the way for the Commerce Department to set preliminary punitive duties in the ...
The U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday approved trade investigations into grain- oriented electrical steel products from seven foreign countries, paving the way for the Commerce Department to set preliminary punitive duties in ...
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A U.S. trade panel decided on Thursday to extend antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese exports of steel pipes after a five-year review of the measure imposed initially in 2008. The bipartisan International Trade Commission ...
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The United States will not impose punitive duties on hardwood and plywood from China, the U.S. trade authority said Tuesday. The U.S. industry is "neither materially injured nor threatened with material injury" by imports of hardwood and ...
Oil prices were little changed Monday as traders awaited U.S. crude inventories data for last week. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Energy Department' s statistical arm, will on Wednesday release its report covering U. S. ...
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Commerce Department revealed that besides motor vehicles, gasoline and building materials in September, the retail sales growth of 0.5%, while August was only 0.2%. According to statistics, because of Apple's new iPhone and other ...
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