More trouble for Pakistan's beleaguered textile industry. The Institute for Policy Reforms (IPR) in a report outlining structural factors that have hurt the industry, has said that the textile industry has made inadequate investment in ...
There was little surprise when Time magazine named Donald Trump its ‘Person of the Year.’ Love him or hate him, Trump left his mark more than any other individual on 2016. Notably, the choice says as much about the impact he ...
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The diamond trade remains under pressure, and further contraction of the market is expected this year. Apart from being squeezed by high rough costs and declining polished prices, dealers lament there are too many players chasing the same ...
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People’s Bank of China published the statement on improving the quotation of the middle exchange rate of RMB against the U.S. dollar on August 11. RMB depreciates against US dollars almost 4.6% in 4 days. This is the biased correction ...
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China's central bank has devalued the yuan by almost 2 per cent - its lowest rate against the US dollar in almost three years. The People's Bank of China (POBC) said the decision to devalue the yuan by 1.9 per cent was a "one-off ...
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A leading domestic rating agency India Ratings has projected a 7.7 per cent growth this fiscal driven by domestic demand. The projection is marginally low from the official growth forecast of 7.9 per cent. "We expect GDP to grow by 7.7 ...
IRL has announced the launch of a new edition of its single country report A Profile of the Indian Paint Industry. In this study, IRL examines India’s paints and coatings market independently and not as part of a regional study on the ...
Knitwear exports from Tirupur cluster have registered a growth of 15.5 per cent in terms of rupee and 15.9 per cent in terms of foreign currencies during the just ended 2014-15 financial, according to a press statement issued by Tirupur ...
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Tirupur Exporters’ Association has welcomed today’s decision of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to reduce the Policy Repo Rate by 25 basis points (bps) from 7.75 per cent to 7.50 per cent, and urged banks to pass on the benefit ...
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Exports from Tirupur, known for knitwear manufacturing, has reached Rs 15,000 crore in the first nine months of the ongoing fiscal year 2014-15, A Sakthivel, president of Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) said in a statement. ...
In its pre-budget memorandum, the Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) among many demands has asked for extension of rupee export credit at 3 per cent interest rate subvention, import of specialty fabric using export performance ...
The World Diamond Conference that took place last week in New Delhi, India, created a buzz in the industry that, frankly, needed a bit of a pick-up considering the state of the market. It not often that two heads of state attend a diamond ...
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The analyst presentation that De Beers published this week on behalf of Anglo American was as revealing as the company’s much publicized Diamond Insight Report. Whether this was a once-off publication or not, the presentation was ...
Grasim Industries Ltd., a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that it has commenced commercial production at its Greenfield Viscose Staple Fibre (VSF) plant at Vilayat village in Bharuch ...
Viscose Staple Fibre (VSF) volume rose to 86,389 tons, up 11 percent at Grasim Ltd; a company of Kumaramangalam Birla-led Aditya Birla Group in the first fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2014. However higher input cost impaired the margins ...
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