Toyota launches Prius Campaign with comedic spot highlighting the reinvention of the world’s best selling hybrid. The striking all-new 2016 Toyota Prius steals America's heart in an entertaining, light-hearted 90-second commercial ...
The unveiling of final renewable fuel requirements for US refiners ignited a rally in gasoline futures Tuesday, helping support the rest of the oil complex. The front-month gasoline crack, basis ICE Brent, reached $13.61/b Tuesday, its ...
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New York futures moved higher this week, with December advancing 209 points to close at 63.94 cents/lb, while March gained 174 points to close at 62.27 cents/lb. “After posting a low of 60.83 cents two weeks ago, nearby supply ...
Tags: Cotton, cash market
Going long on lead and short on copper continues to be a solid investment strategy in 2014, particularly as lead tilts toward a supply deficit and copper toward surplus, investment bank BNP Paribas said Thursday. Despite lead's ...
Rates and sentiment on the iron ore freight market got a boost Friday after Bocimar International NV was heard taking at least six ships in the Atlantic over the May Day holiday in Asia, putting an end to the downward spiral in Capesize ...
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The Alliance for American Manufacturing is organizing a rally Monday at US Steel’s Lorain, Ohio tubular plant as part of a national effort to convince the US Commerce Department (DOC) to impose duties on dumped steel imports, ...
Tags: Anti-Import-Dumping, US Steel
Thermal and coking coal exports from Australia's Newcastle port fell 12.5% on the week to 2.64 million mt in the week to Sunday, after four weeks of gains, according to the Newcastle Port Corporation's latest update. NPC said there were ...
The price of zinc could get up to $4,500/mt by the end of the decade as supply is outstripped by increasing demand, CRU analyst Helen O'Cleary said Monday. The analyst -- speaking at the Metal Events 6th International Zinc conference in ...
Tags: Zinc, increasing demand, CRU analyst
Molybdenum oxide prices continued their rally on Friday, reaching a nine-month high, although some participants believe the market may be poised for a period of consolidation in the first half of April. The Platts daily dealer molybdenum ...
Tags: Moly Oxide, oxide powder, steel mills
Bitcoin, 3-D printed candy and George Takei, the Star Trek-actor-turned-Facebook-phenomenon, are among the attractions this week at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where the geek set is slowly filing out to make room for ...
Tags: Microsoft, digital currency, technology
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) ...
By lowering ending stocks estimates, the USDA released market-friendly data Friday. As a result, the corn finished double-digits higher. The March corn futures contract closed 20 3/4 cents higher at $4.32. The March soybean futures ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Corn and soybeans were up; cotton was mixed; and wheat was down for the week. As the Christmas season quickly approaches trading volume has reduced substantially with the exception of soybeans which have high volumes when accounting for ...
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Recent research in the American Marketing Association's Journal of Marketing Research finds that, as the environment becomes more socially crowded, consumers show an increased preference for products with safety connotations. A crowded ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Consumer Packaging
Alfa Romeo has the Alfisti, and now Subaru has come up with its own name for its legion of loyal customers: Subarists. Subaru introduced the name at this week’s 2013 Tokyo motor show. Subaru Australia boss Nick Senior said ...
Tags: Subaru, New Name, Loyal Customers