The Chinese mainland market may have suffered its biggest loss on Monday, but rebounded on Wednesday. 2015 is set to be the first of what is likely to be a three-year bull run for Chinese equities. Chinese households have for the most ...
Tags: Chinese Equities, Bull Market
One Equity Partners (OEP) will go ahead with the sale of Austrian flexible packaging company Constantia Flexibles after it failed to list the company on the stock exchange. JP Morgan owns 50% of OEP and has received expressions of ...
Tags: One Equity Partners, packaging company Constantia, Agriculture
Chinese buyers refrained from meeting the delivered-price expectations of seaborne cargo sellers in unsettled Asian trade Friday, as weak fundamentals in the domestic market prolonged a week-old standoff between buyers and sellers, said ...
Tags: China Cargo Market, coal producer, thermal coal market
Bearish sentiment blanketed the Indonesian thermal coal market Wednesday amid reports of price discounting by major Chinese coal producers to their domestic customers, said traders. A medium-sized Indonesian coal producer said he expected ...
Tags: Thermal Coal Market, Deal-Making
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economists recently provided 2014 projections for major commodities produced in Texas, with many pointing to past drought conditions as a key factor in making or breaking a crop. The Plains region of ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Spot prices of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal in Asia rose this week as sellers raised offer prices due to output cuts in South China. Platts assessed the Chinese export spot price at $2,040-2,060/mt FOB China Thursday, up from ...
The spot price for South African charge chrome (48-52% Cr) was assessed at 83-84 cents/pound CIF China Friday, down from 83-85 cents/lb CIF China assessed the previous week, amid slow demand. The spot price of Indian-origin high carbon ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Apple just can’t keep a secret these days. “There’s been a thorough leaking of Apple’s most likely plans,” said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research (TBI), on what Apple will unveil ...
Tags: iPhone 5C, Electronics
After their expectations reached a 24-year low in the previous quarter, businesses are indicating that price rises are on the agenda in the new financial year as they seek to retain profits while compensating for cost pressures and low ...
Tags: Service, Bank, Price Expectations
Participants in the biggest Asian coal conference in Bali, Indonesia, in the first week of June will be eying whether China will continue to remain relatively passive in importing thermal coal, industry sources said Monday. Participants ...
Tags: thermal coal, Coaltrans Asia
Australian businesses will keep cutting their spending this year, with expectations for capital investment, employment and new credit set to fall further. The deteriorating outlook for the September quarter suggests that despite pockets ...
The food and drink sector is leading the UK’s industrial output, according to the Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI’s) latest monthly Industrial Trends Survey. Food and drink businesses are expecting to lift ...
Tags: Food, drink, drink businesses
Australian businesses have pulled back their profit expectations for the coming months as they anticipate modest sales activity, difficult trading conditions and subdued consumer activity. After showing signs of optimism leading into the ...
China's domestic toluene price has fallen 4.8% in seven trading days since hitting a peak of Yuan 10,375/mt on January 7, Platts data showed Wednesday. The price was heard at Yuan 9,900/mt, or $1,309.81/mt on an import parity basis ...
Within a couple of days first Fortescue Metals' Nev Power and then Rio Tinto's Sam Walsh have warned that the remarkable rebound in iron ore prices won't last. Others are not as sure. Earlier this week, Power attributed the sharp rise in ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Fortescue Metals'Nev Power, Rio Tinto's Sam Walsh, Metallurgy