The U.S. trade deficit fell to an 11-month low in November as declining crude oil prices curbed the import bill, prompting economists to sharply raise their growth estimates for fourth-quarter growth. Yet big moves also create the ...
Tags: Trade Deficit, America economy
German exports of rough-sawn softwood lumber in the third quarter were 6% higher than in the same quarter of last year at 1.433m m3. Data from the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden shows that deliveries to countries outside Europe rose ...
Tags: softwood, construction
New orders to German chemical producers recovered in October 2.5% from weakness in September as export demand picked up again, preliminary data by the federal statistics office showed Thursday. Foreign orders bounced back 4.6% from a 3.5% ...
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Slack demand on the relevant European sales markets in the second quarter of 2012 caused German softwood lumber exports to fall by 12% against the same quarter of last year to a total of 1.339m m³. With the exception of the Czech ...
Tags: market view, cement
The German Furniture Industry Federation (VDM) is still working from the assumption that furniture manufacturers can achieve the growth of 3% in sales forecasted at the beginning of 2012 for the year as a whole. This was reported by the VDM ...
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In spite of the doubling in deliveries to the UK arising partly from the loss of output due to fire at Sonae UK, German exports of raw particleboard in the first three quarters of 2011 remained well below the figure for last year. According ...
Tags: market view, particleboard, export