China's consumer prices increased 2.3 percent in February from one year earlier, up from January's 1.8 percent, official data showed Thursday. The inflation rate, the highest since July 2014, beat expectations as economists from the ...
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On Friday, the CME Group's corn, soybean and wheat markets are expected to start higher. The early calls for the commodities on Friday, January 3, 2013, are higher. Corn is seen opening 1-2 cents higher, soybeans 2-4 cents higher, and ...
Tags: Corn, Soybeans, Agriculture, Food
After trading to a low of 82.11 cents last week, downside momentum faded and the market was able to move slightly higher this week, with December closing today about 300 points above important long-term support at 81.72 cents. The lack of ...
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Global shares climbed Monday after China's GDP growth figures and US earnings reports beat expectations, Reuters reported. The slowdown in China's GDP growth to 7.5% was less severe than many had feared and the country's retail sales ...
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The sharemarket notched up its biggest gain for five weeks yesterday as the banks led broad-based gains thanks to lower-than-expected domestic inflation data and stronger offshore markets. The consumer price index rose 0.4 per cent in the ...
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Australian shares rose to a 4 1/2 year high yesterday on strength in Asian and European markets. US economic data beat expectations and central bankers in Europe and the US reassured investors easy monetary policy will continue. ...
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The sharemarket rose yesterday as defensive and high-yield stocks had broad-based gains after stronger-than-expected German business confidence data brightened the eurozone economic outlook and US earnings reports beat expectations. The ...
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The Australian sharemarket closed higher after BHP Billiton's production report exceeded expectations and weak inflation figures drove up high-yielding stocks. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 8.7 points, or 0.18 ...
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The sharemarket fell today, led by resources stocks after minutes of the Federal Reserve's December policy meeting sparked concern US stimulus measures might be scaled back sooner than expected. The Fed minutes, released Thursday, showed ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle's second-quarter earnings announcement beat expectations in some respects, but also raised a number of interesting and in some cases, unanswered questions. Here's a look. Is Exadata carrying the day for Oracle's ...
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A newly leaked video shows off two coming Research in Motion BlackBerry 10 smartphones, while also describing an elaborate marketing campaign designed to help launch the devices in the first quarter of 2013. CrackBerry.com first posted ...
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The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in Friday's preliminary reading rising for the first time in four months, Industrial production in Japan gained a seasonally adjusted 1.8% on month in October. The headline figure beat ...
Tags: industrial production, electronic parts, fabricated metals
Built on a green field site adjacent to its existing paper mill, the new paper mill, based in Rosslyn, is one of Nampak's largest capital projects to date, according to the firm. According to the firm, the objective of the expansion is to ...
Tags: paper mill, Nampak Group, recycling, packaging, corrugated boxes
LED chipmaker Epistar has announced July revenues of NT$1.667 billion (US$55.69 million), a decrease of 3.6% on month but a growth of 14.3% on year. LED packaging house Everlight reported July revenues of NT$1.419 billion, a 4.83% decrease ...
Tags: LED chip