The drop in net imports of oil (crude and petroleum products combined) was the major contributor to the United States reaching its lowest net trade deficit in November 2013 since 2009, although the trade deficit increased in the final month ...
Tags: lowest net trade deficit, stagnating domestic product demand
Australia's Atlas Iron said Tuesday it would double production at its Mt Webber mine in north Pilbara to 6 million mt by the end of the December quarter, now that the board has approved development of the project's second stage. ...
Tags: Atlas Iron, Mineral
Though hog farmers are starting to see decent profits, the continued presence of a major disease continues to keep a lid on profits and herd expansion, a report released this week shows. In a quarterly pork report, Rabobank livestock ...
Tags: lower feed costs, the pork market, PEDv
Anglo American's thermal coal division produced 67.6 million mt in the 2013 financial year, slipping 2% on the year due to lower-than-expected production at Colombia's Cerrejon and South Africa's New Vaal mines. The miner said in its ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Mineral
Australian Direct Nickel and Indonesia's Antam are looking to complete the feasibility study for their joint venture plant in Halmahera Island by first quarter 2015, a Direct Nickel spokesman said Monday. Last month, the two companies ...
Tags: Nickel, stainless steel
Chinese import prices for ferrochrome and charge chrome were unchanged this week, as market activities slowed ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays starting end-January. The spot price for Indian-origin high carbon ferrochrome (58-60% Cr) ...
Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. The near term supply remains tight and demand continues to look good, but China's celebrating their New Year, which could take them out of the market for a while. However, while there ...
Argentine polymer and synthetic rubber output fell 4.6% in December compared with the year-ago period, state statistics office Indec said Friday. Production of the petrochemicals rose 0.6% in December compared with November, and was down ...
Tags: Argentina Polymer, Polymer, synthetic rubber
China's apparent demand for gas in December rose 14.1% year on year to a record high of 16.26 billion cu m, according to Platts calculations of recently released government data. China does not release consumption data on gas. Platts ...
Tags: natural gas, gas demand
LAS VEGAS — Motion upholstery resource Barcalounger has signed a lease for a new permanent showroom at the Las Vegas Market, which opens Sunday. The new exhibit space in World Market Center A-948 will allow the company to show a ...
Tags: Barcalounger, Larry Smith, H.Home, Row One
Anytime a product recall is quickly associated with illnesses it's never good. But for Fonterra, the world's largest dairy processor, the need in the last week to recall 8,700 bottles of cream for E. coli contamination could not have come ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Milk, Milk Powder
Gross production of LED chips by domestic Chinese companies (listed companies with mainly Chinese investment backgrounds) was US $8.49 million (NT $255 million), a YoY increase of 17%, according to LEDinside. Rapid increase of penetration ...
Tags: LED Chip, Commercial Lighting
China imported 1.73 million mt of natural gas via pipelines in November, up 8.2% year on year, data released by the General Administration of Customs showed Tuesday. Customs data records natural gas trade data in mt, similar to LNG ...
Tags: Gas Pipeline, cv
Dana Gas, the Middle East's leading regional private sector natural gas Company, announced today that it has received from the Egyptian Government authorities the payment of AED 194 million (US$ 53 million) from the current total ...
Tags: Dana Gas, AED, Egyptian Government, Investment
China will re-introduce an import tax on diesel -- at 1% -- from January 1, 2014, following approval from the State Council, the country's Ministry of Finance said Monday. No reason was given for the change. Diesel had been exempt from ...
Tags: Diesel Tax, Mineral