New orders to U.S. production plants soared a record 10.5 percent in July on a 74 percent bookings spike in the volatile transportation sector. The somewhat misleading double-digit gain was propelled by an eye-popping 317.3 percent surge in ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Hardware
The price of palladium, hitting $865 an ounce on Friday, made a notable record. It hasn't, as Reuters notes, traded so high since February 2001. What's more, it also surged by highs it hit back in 2011 when it traded in the mid-$800s an ...
Tags: palladium, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
U.S. manufacturers saw a rebound last month as production grew by the most in six months, according to a report from Bloomberg. American factories produced more cars, chemicals and business equipment, fueling a 0.8 percent increase as the ...
Tags: cars, chemicals, business equipment
According to the latest quarterly economic forecast from the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation(MAPI),deceleration in the U.S.manufacturing recovery in the second quarter of 2012 foretells slow economic growth in coming ...
Tags: MAPI, fiscal cliff, US, economy
The majority of UK CIOs believe the work landline will be redundant within the next five years due to the rise in adoption of the smartphone. The figure was revealed in research from Virgin Media Business,which saw 500 CIOs questioned by ...
Tags: Smartphone, Landline, UK, Internet
Manufacturing in the U. S. Probably expanded at a slower pace in April than a month earlier, indicating the industry that spurred the recovery almost three years ago is cooling, economists said before a report today. The Institute for ...