Three VLCC fixtures to lift Forties crude from Hound Point, Scotland, in recent days could hit Aframax freight rates in the North Sea in coming weeks, shipbrokers said Friday. The Al Kout, the Front Page, and the Voyager I were all ...
Tags: Tankers, VLCC Fixtures, crude, Aframaxes
The long-term consequences of China's coming stockmarket correction are the ones to fear IF YOU were a Chinese worker you could have spent the past year toiling to earn a living. Or you could have bought some shares and sat on the sofa ...
Tags: Share Prices, Economy, Stockmarket
China's foreign trade remained anaemic in the first quarter of 2015, with exports registering a big slump in March following signs of improvement, official data showed on Monday. Last month, the foreign trade volume dropped by 13.5 ...
Tags: Foreign Trade, GAC, Transportation
For coatings producers one of the big benefits of the sharp fall in oil prices in the second half of last year (2014) should be a drop in raw material costs. Some commentators are also predicting a rise in demand due to the effect of ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Raw materials, Construction
Deal or no deal, the US Congress' dance with default impressed policymakers and investors in China and Japan with just how vulnerable their own economic revival plans are to the next political tantrum on Capitol Hill. The 11th-hour ...
Tags: Dollar Drama, Economy
In the course of the first half of 2013, Titan further strengthened its fundamental financial metrics, increasing sales, generating positive free cash flow and further reducing net debt. The robust recovery in the USA and resilient demand ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
According to Gartner, Oracle suffered the most as growth in the storage market continued to slow during the end of 2012. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also struggled while EMC emerged as the big winner. Revenue totalled US$6 billion in ...
Tags: Oracle, storage market, Computer
Office 365 Home Premium for Windows 8 brings with it massive change, possibly the biggest since Office 2003. But the change is not so much about adding Windows 8 touchscreen capability to Office. Sure, it's there, but Office 365HP is ...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft, notebooks, tablets
Office 365 Home Premium for Windows 8 brings with it massive change, possibly the biggest since Office 2003. But the change is not so much about adding Windows 8 touchscreen capability to Office. Sure, it's there, but Office 365HP is ...
Conducted by influential market research firm Millward Brown, Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands Report is monitoring the value of the great brands around the globe for a full seven years. This year almost half of the Top 100 brands lost ...
Tags: Valuable Global Brands Report, appetite for luxury, sales growth
Reuters reported that London copper edged down after rising for two weeks in a row although signs of economic recovery in top consumer China and hopes for Greece to avert an imminent bankruptcy kept a floor under prices. Copper prices ...
Researchers have now moved a step closer to determining new ways to improve quality of life-saving blood transfusions for preterm babies by understanding the mechanism behind the body's inflammatory response. By decreasing the likelihood ...
Tags: blood transfusions, preterm babies, body's inflammatory response, anaemic
Reuters reported that London copper was steady and set to log a second week of gains after recent data fuelled hope that the Chinese and US economies have finally turned a corner but the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States drained ...
Tags: London Copper, copper, Chinese and US economies, Thanksgiving holiday
A New York-based major shareholder in OfficeMax has urged the company to sell-off its Australian and New Zealand divisions so that it can return more cash to investors. In a letter to OfficeMax CEO Ravi Saligram, Neuberger Berman managing ...
Tags: OfficeMax, transformational acquisition, operating strategy